The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-04

SelVGS divided ana SuD0lVlQed upon the national question success could hardly be hoped for in any event. Possibly did Germany venture an in vasion of England and had the ene- my landed upon the British shores I revolt in Ireland might have stood some likelihood of successful end ing. But with present conditions the attempt was suicidal and foolish. It will react upon the people them selves and will throw the country back to the dark days of the Union and the vain efforts to prevent it.
 None the less we take some satis- faction from the fact that the great masses who rose in this revolt were men who can by no stretch of ima- gination be accused of anything but an unsullied devotion to sentiment
 This is material age. Most men truly enough sell their honor and their manhood and their beliefs for Dl ClSI anu lOl po"OI hOy
 prostitute their brains and their abI-
 lities in the service of the great and
 the wealthy. They sheer at the men
 who refuse to stain their souls with the price of dishonor and taint their names with the poison of corruption
 Nay, they teach us that there is but
 one incentive in. this world worth
 while, the dollar incentive, and that
 all else is moonshine.
 We say it is something in this day
 and this age however desperate may
 be the fate of those who follow it, to behold men and peoples sacrific. ing their all for the up-holding of q spiritual idea and the furtherancC of an impulse unteinted by sordid
 motive. That surely was the posi- tion of the vast masses of those Dub- lin men who sacrificed peace of life and peace of mind-who dared all
 they had and gave their lives as a pledge of their belief in the ultimate worthiness of the hopes and feelings that were in them.
 It was without question fool hardy.
 In this world nothing succeeds but success. The ultimate test of all ac- tion is, whether it is written in the golden type that records ultimate victory or the dark tear-stained let ters that no less indelibly record the story of gallant efforts in vain. The immortality of this rebellion from a social point of view Is founded upon the fact that 1t threatened the well being of those who held property, possessed lands and were making money It endangered the profits of the business man, the dues of the clergy and the comfortable living Of the government jobbites. That those who revolted did not see their duty towards these is doubtless because in their varied lives they did not make 1t self evident proposition. The workers who are rewarded with days work at hard labor for small pay are not lNely to be very mucn concerned with the stability of Brit ish rule or the maintenance of the Maynooth grant, and, generally speaking there is no particular req son why they should. The intellcc- tuals who live in a past age, who have stimulated their minds with stories of Granuaile and Dark Rosa leen who have existed in the mystic. ism of the San Van Vocht have their souls above the material things of life and lord lieutenant's levee and clerical convocation are sordid mat ters of detail that never rise to the supreme heights reached by the un- tramelled wings soaring above the of a Castle heck.
 Psychologically speaking too, and his is psychological question, we must remember that the Kettle spl- it or mentality is wholly unassimil- ,ble by the Saxon or the Teuton. The races may intermarry and inter nix as they have done, but only at he sacrifice of the mental and spiri- ,ual attributes of the Anglo-Saxon. Al though politically end physically speaking the Kelt may be cnchained, he at least rcjoicoc in tho eternal liberty of the chainless mind, the mind that mcy be dominated in as- sociation with othcr Kelts or by Keltic superstitions but never by that of any other race or people.