The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-15
AN UNTOWARD LEGACY.

It is g coincidence that Sheehy Skeffington in recent number of the Century should have questioned the right of Asquith and the Brit ish government to claim tho title If champion of the smaller na- tionalities and in rebutaI of such claim he forcibly enough instc need Ireland.
 Now SkeffingtCn is TO more, liter ally done to death without authority and with more then the scvagery of wars atrocity. His life, and his end ing above all, is proof sufficient Of his case.
 Yet Skiffington might have known that from time to time British kings have laid claim to titles which none but themselves could respect. Henry the Eighth, wife and man murderer rojoiced in the title of Defender ot the Faith and all the bunch of sovercigns who have gr2ced or dis graced the throne of England since that time chcerfully assumed the titlo.
 Tme wonderful fact is that tn. smaller nationality that Great Bri. tain now or at any time champions has been the other fellows annexa- tion. The sympathy that went out for Russian Poland when Russia was a bear that walked like man and before it has tcken its place as the rcgener; tor of later day civiliza- tion in alliance with other plutocra- tic defenders of democracy and li- berty, was wonderful, and the poets from Tom Campbell who told us that Freedom shrieked when Kociusko fell, down to the queens poet Ten nyson, all of them shed tears copious enough to float a drcadnaught over the servitudc that was foreign ana long distance. The eloqucnce Of Gladstone, of a Forster of a Brign, and sundry and several other up- lifting leaders of liberal whiggery found expression for no subject more pleasurable than a denunciation of the enslavement of other peoples than their own.
 And right across the water stood Erin with tear and a smile in her eye. a forgotten small nationality, but with a national and radical in- stinct as keen as, and far more in domitable and unconquorable than any other in the world.
 Just at the same time that Glad. stone was weeping for the fate of Macedonia and denouncing the Bashi Bazouks, he was fash1oning within his political shops cn Algerian coer- cion act for Ireland, and we don't know of any man could be more unctuous in his denunciation of for eign tyranny and more unaware of domestic tyranny than the same statesman.
 This recent revolt in Ireland was hopelessly ill-timed and foolish and suicidal. We don't doubt for mi mute that even it's success would have very little changed the status of the people economically speaking. No purely national revolt will But what is interesting about it is that | Great Britain and her statesmen | "a, am to have forgotten all about ,,u harsh things they said of the ,arn,. ns in Belgium or Tn Poland, md rear " on with same gross and avtess .ond mercileos hand them. elves in 1. "eland.
 It takes a liberal government to a reallv n,ibe val in its Irish poli- ios. Nothing co.rld have been more tupid than the l,'oolish executions hat have been carri,ad on. Every execution is legacy of hato for . uture generations of En,glishmenr hat time will have trouble enough { n wearing away Much wiser and nuch saner was the lonient policy | ,dopted towards the South African { 'ebeIs, but may be there was req son South Africa was not prepared { o stand for harshnes5 and discre- S ion tempered the severity of the would otherwise have l 1eon inflicted upon tho members or
 
 other small nationalities that owe heir extinction to the modern cham