The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-08-19
American Press
Den0unces urder
Of Easement
American Press Denounces killino of
Sir Roger Casement-Home Rule
Dead.
NEWSPAPERS SHOW INcREAs.
ING HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND
(Irish Press and News Service.)
Great Britain's Moral Guilt,

New York World: If the British
government had not broken faith with
Ireland there would have been nc
Easement affair. If it had not proved
false to its pledges, Ireland today
would not be hotbed of sedition OF
held under martial law.
The passage of the home rule bill
was solemn assurance to ireland
that it was at last to be granted the
powers of self-government. The bill
was the elimination of long political
struggle by which the Liberal party
had finally justified the confidence OF
Irish Nationalist in it's loyalty tc
their cause. But in the first weeks
of the war Mr.. Asquith and his associ
ates in the government undid the
work accomplished in behalf of Ire
land. The definite promises embodied
in an act of parliament were with.
drawn. Home rule was deferred for
nobody knew how long. Ulster, which
had threatened civil war, was put in
the saddle. Sir Edward Carson, the
organizer of rebellion, was rewarded
with cabinet rank.
The Irish had been grossly deceived.
They had been cheated of their rights.
The government that they had been
taught to trust had deserted them for
the friendship of the enemies of home
rule. In the circumstances it was
natural that conspiracy should thrive
in the soil of ireland. The British
government by its cynical disregard
of it's own honor and it's instability OF
purpose had prepared the field for
this.
Now that the Dublin rebels have
been shot and Easement hanged for
treason in Pentonville prison, the CON
Citation of Ireland is further away
than ever. A Unionist anti-home ruler
has been made chief secretary for Ire.
land, military law is in force and the
home rule act is dead letter.
The Killing Of Roger Easement, Irish
Patriot.
Brooklyn Standard-U Union: England
has not helped herself by the killing
of Roger Easement, Irish patriot
which took place this morning in Pen.
tonville prison. Only few days ago
Mr.. Asquith, the English premier, bit.
terly denounced Germany for the exc
cution of an English sea captain, who
while commanding a merchant vessel
had attempted to ram a German sub.
marine. Had he succeeded the Ger.
man crew would have died a horrible
death.
The English captain acted as he did
under admiralty orders.
Mr.. Asquith said the execution of
the English sea captain, notwithstand.
ing his alleged trial, was plain, cold
blooded murder, and that after the
war was over England would take
steps to punish the murderers for
their crime.
This was in effect a threat to hane
the kaiser.
Almost in the same breath the Eng
fish premier talks about seeing to the
personal punishment of the Germans
who executed an English sea captain
taken in the act of trying to run down
German submarine, and of the inten
ton of England after the war to blot
out all commerce that does not con
cede England's right to say where and
when and with whom the peoples OF
the world shall trade.
The proof of that pudding will be ii
the eating.
Already to protest against the
blacklisting of American mercantile
firms the contemptuous answer is the
blacklisting of more American firms
accompanied by the patronizing assur
ance that neutrals will not be hur
by the secondary boycott already un
der way.
However, there may not be sucl
plain sailing for the English program
as it's promoters seem to think, ant
nothing will do more to turn millions
OF voters in this country against any
thing bearing the shape of Englisl
governmental methods of interference,
with business than the ruthless KILN,
of Roger Easement and men of hi
ilk, as if we were living in the Twelfth
instead of the twentieth century.
New York Evening Mail: Roge
Easement is dead. There is no doub
that the British government had
legal right to kill him. 1t was tn
right to Shylock's pound of flesh. TIL
reaction of the civilized world will b.
similar to our reaction to Shylock.
Last Saturday, speaking for tn
foreign relations committee, Senate
Williams, stout defender of Grea
Britain, thus soothed the fears of thos
who foresaw Easements doom:
Why, Mr. President, the Englisl
ministry would be madmen il the,
executed Sir Roger Easement; the
would be fit subjects for incarceration
as lunatics; they would not be states
men; they would show themselves S.
shortening as not to be possesses
even of the ordinary shrewdness of