The Irish standard., 1916-05-27

of European peace, and that until her
mastery of the seas is overmastered
by Europe, there can be no peace upon
earth or good will among men.
Inspect the foundations of European
ornaments where we will, and we
shall find that the Master Builder is
he who fashioned the British Empire
1t is that empire, its claim to uni
versal right of presumption to every
zone and region washed by the waves,
and useful or necessary to the expan-
sion of the white races, and it's asser-
ton of right to control all the seas
that drives the peoples of Europe into
armed camps.
To make sure the encompassing of
Europe with girdle of steel, it is
necessary to girdle the United States
with girdle of lies. With America
true to the policy of her great founder,
an American 1.-The friend of all powers,
but the ally of none," English designs
against European civilization must in
the end fail.
Says British Seek U. S. Aid.
Those plans can succeed only by &C.
tive American support, and to secure
this is now the supreme task and aim
of British stealth and SKILL Every tool
Of her diplomacy, polished and I'M
polished, from the trained envoy to the
boy scout and the minor poet, has
been tried in turn.
The pulpit, the bar, the press, the
society hostess, the cabinet minister
and the cabinet minister's wife, the
ex-cabinet minister and the royal
family itself, but not least, even Irish
nationality"-all have been pilgrims to
that shrine, and each has been care
fully primed, loaded, we'll aimed, and
then turned full on the weak spots in
the armor of republican simplicity.
To the success of these resources of
panic the Justification of history be-
comes essential and the utilization of
the most peace-loving people of Eu-
rope.
The past relations of England with
the United States are to be blotted
out, and the American people, who are
by blood so largely Germanic, are to
be entrapped into an attitude of sus-
picion, hostility and resentment
against the country and race from
whom they have received nothing but
good.
Germany is represented as the
enemy, not to England's indefensible
claim to own the seas, but to American
ideals on the American continent.
Germans Represented as Foes.
Just as the Teuton has become the
enemy Of civilization" in the Old
World because he alone has power,
strength of mind and force of pur-
pose to dispute seriously the British
hegemony of the seas, so he is assidu-
ously represented as the only threat
to American hegemony of the New
World.
This keynote is sounded from every
corner of the British Empire, wher-
ever the imperial editor, resting from
the labors of the lash he Yields
against the colored toilers in mine or
camp, directs his eyes from the bent
forms of these indentured slaves of
dividend to the erect and stalwart
frames Of the new Goths who threaten
the whole framework of imperial divi-
dend from across the North Sea. From
the Times to the obscurest news sheet
of the remotest corner of the British
dominions the word has gone forth.
The Monroe doctrine, palladium of
the Anglo-Saxon world empire, is i'm
periled by German ambitions, and
were it not for the British fleet Amer
lea would be lost to the Americans.
Wherever Englishmen are gathered
today their journals assert that the
function of the British fleet is to ex-
clude the European states, with Ger
many at their head, from South Amer
lea, not because in itself that is
right or worthy end to pursue, but be-
cause that continent is earmarked for
future exploitation and control by their
"kinsmen" of the United States, and
they need the support of these "kins-
men" in their battle against Germany.
Propaganda Is Widespread.
l need quote but single utterance
from the mass of seditious libels of
this character before me to show how
widespread is this propaganda of false
hood and how sustained Is the effort
being made to poison the American
mind against the only people in Eu-
rope England genuinely fears, and
therefore Fundamentally hates.
The Natal Mercury. for instance,
paper written for the little town of
Durham and appealing to population
of only some 10000 whites, in a re-
cent issue devoted a leader to THE
Peace Centennial of 1914" saying:
After all, blood is thicker than
water" and after pointing out some
later-day indications of rapprochement
between England and the United
States, it goes ON to proclaim the chief
function of the British navy and the