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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
WITHOUT PITY OR COMPASSION

WITHOUT PITY OR COMPASSION.
When Edith Cavell was justly exc.
cuted by the Germans for being a
spy there swept over England wave
of hysterical indignation. The tender.
hearted Britishers were shocked. The
same people who blew Sepoys from
the mouth of cannons, and who have
just now sentenced the Countess
Markiewicz to life term in prison,
shed oceans of crocodile tears. But
the rest of the world was not fooled.
They remembered Tolstoy's piercing
remark about the English, that "they
were without pity or compassion" A
few days ago eight men were exc.
cuted in Dublin after a mock court.
martial trial. They were probably
tricked into surrendering after a
promise of immunity. These men
were heroes. They were the finest
product of the Irish race. Most OF
them were teachers, eager, incorrupt.
ible, passionately Irish. Some of them
were poets, artists; all of them were
patriots. Padraic Pearse, whose pic.
ture is in this weeks issue of The
Fatherland, was the principal of a
school; had written several excellent
books of verse and had made a name
for himself as an educator. He was
the president of the new Irish Re-
public, that Republic in which all
men were to be free and truly equal.
He is now dead, a victim to British
cruelty and tyranny. His lieutenants
have met the same fate. But the great
cause for which he gave his life can
never die. His young, rich blood has
given new birth to that ideal of free
dom which for all time shall thrill
the world.-The Fatherland.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
GOVERNMENT CONN.,
VANCE.

Sir Robert Borden finds willing
ears when he speaks of the treat
ment of Canada and matters con-
corning Canadian affairs. Gen
eral Botha is given the attention
OF the government when he dis
cusses the affairs of South Africa
the British government has its
ears to the ground for rumblings
of matters affecting Australia,
but what of Redmond? His ad-
vertised plea for clemency fell
upon deaf ears. The Irish people
were ignored in dealings affecting
Ireland. Britian's handling of the
recent revolt is the browning ar
gument in favor of Irish indie
pendence. The government con-
nived with Carson and with Sir
John French, the one parading
open rebellion and the other re-
fusing to carry out the orders of
the government, both were guilty
of treason. Were it not for the
weakness of the Asquith govern
ment, both Carson and French
would have faced the firing squad,
both challenged the government
to introduce Home Rule into Ire
land or to remove those who were
opposing it. If the British gov
ernment was determined upon
arousing sympathy for the Irish
Revolutionists they have certain
ly been successful. If organized
armed rebellion against the en-
forcement of the statutes such as
was done by Edward Carson is
not treason, what is? Carson was
rewarded by being made a men,
Der of the cabinet and French,
who was partner in his treason
was made commander-in-chief of
the English forces at the outbreak
of the war. Atrocities in the
name of British justice are intol-
cradle. The Manchester Eng
land) Guardian declared the Dub
lin military executions to be an
atrocity. Even England is wax
ing up to the fact that ferocious
blood letting is not justice, al
though the British mind still re-
serves the right to declare that
only Irish patriots can be guilty
of treason.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
IRELAND UNDER ENGLISH RULE

IRELAND UNDER ENGLISH RULE.
The kings courts were open to ev-
cry man who brought an action against
an Irishman, yet, If a native we're the
plaintiff, the very fact of his birth was
allowed to be an effectual bar to his
claim. (2) If an 1rishman was MUIR
dered, whatever were his rank in the
church or state, no court would under
take to punish the murderer. Lin
gard, History of England.
The Statute of Kilkenny.-If any
man took a name after the Irish fash
ion, used the Irish language, or dress,
or mode of riding (without saddle),
or adopted any other Irish customs,
all his lands and houses were for
feited, and he himself was put into
Jail till he could find security that he
would comply with the law.-P. w.
Joyce.
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THE IRISH EXECUTIONS.
William Dean HoweIIs.

VvubIdH 0CdU t1O"Cl0s
Nothing more lamentable in the
course of the war now raging has
come to pass than this act Of bloody
vengeance by the English govern
ment. Vengeance, mere vengeance it
is, for it testifies solely to the power
of England, to the often wrong of
her hard hand against her good heart.
It would appear that in the hundred
years which have elapsed since the
hanging of Emmett, England has really
learned nothing in the right treatment
of Ireland, where in spite of SO many
centuries of conquest, those who
struggle against England's power can.
not be traitors, cannot be rebels, as
the men of Ulster lately were in their
defiance of the home rule measures
brought to bear in the British parlia.
ment, upon the Irish situation. This
was the golden hour for the sort of
justice which we misname mercy, this
was the moment, not, indeed, wholly
to forget the violent madness of the
Irish rising, but above everything, not
to overmatch it with the madness Of
English resentment. The shooting Of
the Irish insurrectionists is too much
like the shooting of prisoners of war.
In giving way to her vengeance, Eng
land has reused the moral sense of
mankind against her. What a pity,
what an infinite pity! She has left
us who loved her cause in the war
against despotism without another
word to say for her until we have
first spoken our adherence of her
inexorable legality in dealing with her
Irish prisoners.
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gave the horse to Paul Revere, while
another Larkin fell to rise no more
on the embattled slope of Bunker's
Hill. The roster of the American
Revolution reads like the roll-call of q
division of the Clan-na-Gael, the race
of the Kellys, and Burkes, and Shays,
numbered half of the Continental
army, no less than 500 men of the
name of O'Brien served from the
State of Massachusetts in the Ameri-
can Revolution; it took that war to
produce one Benedict Arnold, but it
took seven centuries of time for the
Irish people to produce one John Red
mond. Where, oh where, in the his
tory Of all the nations, of all the
governments that have ever been,
has there been one single instance
where parliamentary agitation has
created free people or maintained
a nations freedom when the physical
force that made it has ceased to be.
I believe in physical force, or the DO.
tential threat Of the same, the Eng
lish poet Byron thus admonished the
Greeks:
"Will Gaul or Muskovite redress you
NO,
Hereditary bonds men you should
know,
They who would be free
Themselves must strike the blow"
Parliamentary agitation may be-
good to settle questions of internal
or domestic policy, but parliamentary
agitation never yet added a single
nation to the nations of men. Sir Ed
mund Burke, one of the greatest ora
tors who ever lived, agitated the Eng
lish Parliament in behalf of the
American Colonies, but it took the
more potent agitation of Concord, and
Saratoga and Yorktown to add this
Republic to the nations of the world.
Do believe in physical force, do I
believe in the American Revolution
and all that it portends, do believe
that my country should never have
been created?
We honor the stand for armed re-
sistance, futile though that stand may
be; the Pharisees of old they still are
with us, these same self-centered paid
servants Of British Imperialism who
mistake the dictates of timidity for
the policies of men. God speed the
revolution! God bless thee, Roger
Easement, and God save Ireland, Is
still our earnest prayer.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20
FRIENDS OF IRISH FREEDOM.

FRIENDS OF IRISH FREEDOM.
At recent meeting of the Friends
of Irish Freedom held in Boston, Hon.
w. B. Larkin spoke of Ireland's crit
ical position in part as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Ameri-
cans: We meet in the most critical
time in the history of the world, the
land of our fathers, contending for
the rights that were achieved by this
nation less than 40 years ago. At
that time less than three million peo-
pie rose in armed rebellion against
the same Empire that Ireland is fight
ing today. Less than three million,
did I say, yes, considerably less, for
there were many Tories in the Ameri-
can Colonies, who contended not
only against the principles of Ameri-
can liberty, but actually opposed it
with arms in the open field. The Of
fice-holding classes almost to a man
were against the Revolution, as many
Of the Irish office-holders are against
an Irish revolution today. We men
of Suffold County could not be true
to the principles of American liberty
here within the confines of the city
that threw the tea into the waters of
the bay as a protest against the mis-
rule of this English empire whose
rule DER alien people has ever been
a curse to mankind. To paraphrase
the language of Wendell Phillips,
know of no race created by Almighty
God who are not better fitted to gov
ern themselves than alien bayonets
can do it for them. We have seen the
Irish nation which a century ago
boasted eight millions of people, re-
duced under the unjust commercial
exactions of British Parliaments to a
scant four million souls. We have
seen her industries paralyzed, her
trade ruined, commercial competition
made absolutely impossible by the
acts of the British parliament legis-
lating to maintain the commercial su-
premacy of England. Ireland can
never hope for peace and prosperity
till the hand of English parliaments
are removed from off the Irish peo-
pies throat. The American Revolu-
ton opened with a riot in the streets
of Boston, when the Irish blood Of
Patrick Carr watered the very roots
of the tree of American liberty, it was
a Captain Parker who commanded
the Minute Men at Lexington, the son
of an Irish mother born on the banks
OF the Shannon, refugee from the
misrule of England's empire. 1t was
Captain Barrett at Lexington, it was
a Deacon Larkin of Public Safety that
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moment and that she was striking
blindly. But the deaths of Plunkett,
William Pearse, Daily and O'Hanra-
han Friday, and now of Major Nc.
Bride, indicate that the policy of ter
rorism and savage repression has
been deliberately adopted, and that
Ireland is to be engulfed in the blood
of her brightest and her bravest. Ty-
rants without number acted thus in
other ages, and inevitably have failed.
The fires Of liberty have been re-
lighted in Ireland, and will glow more
fiercely with every fresh death until
the last vestige of English rule is
destroyed.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-05-20

repopulation of their country; for the
struggle after the war that Carson
has publicly stated he still will wage
If home rule is granted.
And it is these men who have ap-
parently in few instances-and then
only locally-joined in the recent ris-
ing, who will form the Gaelic league
the backbone of the Irish Ireland of
tomorrow. The subdued and decimat-
ed Sim Feins will-until such time
as complete home rule measure is
given-remain suspicious and ire
conctlable. Just as the Canadian par
ty did between the years of 1887 and
the confederation of Canada.
Ireland is practically situated now
as Canada was after 1887. Conditions
will more and more clearly define and
develop the two main parties usual to
every country, the conservative and
the progressive. These in turn will,
as in France, resolve themselves into
different groups with wider express.
sion Of individualism and independ-
ence of thought than is usual to coun-
tries of Teutonic origin, as Germany
and England.
1reland's condition of subject
country will throw in to her progress
sive party the additional pepper of an
intensified national feeling. 1t is out
of this progressive party the next
leader is due. Who will be the man
of destiny? Meanwhile the Irish Ahv.
yoainth has received its baptism of
fire and blood. It is born again.
1t has already produced an infant
school of art based on the old Celtic
that is equaled in significance and
brilliance of design only by Bakst and
his followers of the Russian school.
1t has produced the most artistic
theatrical movement in western Eu-
rope. 1t has made certain the revival
OF the Irish language which next to
the Persian is the purest Aryan Ian
guage in existence. It has sent young
Irish manhood with new zest and SELF
respect and temperance to the agri-
cultural Industrial development of Ire
land. It has made the soul of Ireland
stir out of slumber that was the
gateway to death. It's future success
is beyond question.
At the moment it is easy for the
man on the street to sit in judgment
upon the mistake made in this upris-
ing by the Sim Feins of Ireland.
But he is remote; he is an outsider.
He has not had to live as they, dispos-
sessed in the land of their fathers,
chatting year in and out under the han
dicaps of alien rule and a country i'm
poverished of opportunity. Wisdom
disapproves their action; he may not
judge the men.
In that Easter drama of death and
life many noble young lives that Ire
land needed have been plunged into
eternity.
OF them, as Yeats once inspired
sung of the men Of '98, it is true:
!
"They shall be remembered forever,
They shall be alive forever,
They shall be speaking forever,
The people shall hear them forever"
they will have no need of
prayers; they will have no need of
prayers.
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APOSTLES OF THE SWORD.

To paraphrase Thomas Francis
Meagher, we are not of those
tame moralists who say liberty
is not worth a drop Of blood.
When blood is shed in the defense
of rights and preservation of hon
or, not in the unholy cause of
conquest and empire, we believe
it is not too dear a price to pay.
Every patriotic Irishman must
feel an inward pride and glory in
the present uprising in Ireland,
since it shows that the spirit of
the venerated dead still lives. 1t
was no vulgar mob-spirit that an
imated those heroes and martyrs
of today. Goaded on by system
attic persecution; maligned and
ridiculed the world over by a ly-
ing and subsidized press; hooted,
jeered and mobbed by English
men who should themselves be on
the firing line; indignities of all
kinds heaped upon them, the peo-
pie of Ireland have been sublime
ly patient during. the past few
years. The attempt to discredit
the leaders of the revolution and
debase the spirit Of Irish national
ism by holding German gold and
intrigue responsible, only adds to
the black catalogue of seven hum
dred years of enormities. Col.
Wallace, commander of Con-
nemara Brigade of Irish Volun-
teers, erstwhile friend of Red
mond, says: "The present situa-
ton in Ireland was not fostered
in Germany, nor yet in America.
It was we'll known in ireland that
the English planned to seize all
the arms in the hands of Irish
men, just previous to putting con-
scription into force. The general
staff of the Irish Volunteers de-
cided to checkmate the govern
ment and orders were sent to
every volunteer officer to mobil-
ize at the first sign of an attempt
to seize their arms"
To Redmond and his colleagues
"a world of vile, ill-favored faults
looks handsome in four hundred
pounds year," and that may be
why the pomp of metaphor and
pageantry of words are paraded
in the daily press by them to al
lure the unsuspecting. Notwith-
standing their boasts Ireland is
as wretched as ever and England
as callous, unprincipled, unrelent-
ing. The chains of slavery forged
in parliament by her own sons,
that would bind Ireland to the
chariot of empire have snapped,
and she stands for the moment in
bewildered uncertainty, striving
to collect her strength and mar
shall her giant energies for final
blow that will make her free and
independent. Read the melan-
choly history of the triumphs of
English tyranny over liberty and
you will not find one nation that
she has rescued from slavery, or,
if she found them enslaved did
not make worse by her military
sdespotism. It is not, therefore,
surprising that Irishmen may be
found ready to conquer or die,
a1rvive or perish, on the same
ground that has been watered
18th their tears and crimsoned
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HISTORY, AIMS AND
AMBITIONS OF SIM
FEM ORGANIZATION

CONTINUED from page ~
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"They shall be remembered forever,
They shall be alive forever,
They shall be speaking forever,
The people shall hear them forever"
they will have no need of
prayers; they will have no need of
prayers.
The Springdale news., 1916-12-08
TAYLOR REEL ECTED

Chas. E. Taylor was reelected may
or of Little Rock for the fourth
time at the election held IN the CAPT
tai city Monday. He was opposed
for reelection by Dan Daniels, mem
Der of the city council, and they stag
ed one of the most spectacular cam
paigns ever known in the City of
Roses. Much newspaper space was
used by both candidates, and char
ges and counter charges were made,
attacking each other. The campaign
created interest throughout the entire
state. Taylor received 2,812 votes,
Daniel 1875; Taylor carried five of the
nine wards in the city; Daniel carry
ing four, but by very small majori-
ties; Taylor carried three wards by
large majorities.
The Springdale news., 1916-12-08
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as
they cannot reach the seat Of the dis
ease. Catarrh is local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutional
conditions and in order to cure It you
must take internal remedy. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts thru the blood on the mucous sur
faces {. the system. Hail. Gatarrh
Cure was prescribed by one If the
best pf1ysicl M in this country for
years 1t is eomposd of some of
the best tonics known, combined with
some Of the best blood purifielI. The
perfect combination Of the ingredients
ia Halls Catarrh Cure is what pro-
duces such wonderful results il eat
arrhal conditions. Send for testim=
onials, free
F. J. CHENEY & CO, Props, Toledo.
o. All Druggist 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Springdale news., 1916-12-08
TRAVELLING man
ENTHUSIASTIC
Voices Sentiment On Important Sub
iect of Health.

Probably no calling or occupation
furnishes as many close observers,
men who know merit, and how to get
full value for their money" than
that of travelling salesman. Mr..
Walter NJ Elrod, of Ingleside, Ky,
one of the most successful and popu-
lar men on the road says of Hays
Specific:
wish to say for Hays Specific
that / gave this medicine fair trial
and find it to be far more than
claimed for it.
was troubled with my stomach
for two years and after using two
bottles of Hays Specific was relieved
and would say anyone with sto-
mach trouble to use Hays Specific
if you want permanent cure. 1t
can't be beat
The great system tonic, Hays Spe-
cific is for sale and fully guaranteed
by W. G. Ownbey Drug Co., Spring
dale, Ark
The Springdale news., 1916-12-08

A number in this vicinity have
killed hogs recently.
Jim Bolton and wife have moved to
place near Kansas, Okla.
Some from this place attended the
meeting now going on at Elm Springs.
Jim Luper has moved to the Bill
George place, just east of Kirklands.
Mrs. Joe Anderson is with her sis
ter, Mrs. Mary Brickey, at present.
A public entertainment will be Civ
en- at Sawyer's school house Deem
Der Is
Phillip Bell and wife visited their
daughter over beyond Sloan Springs
recently
Henry Holland and wife are visi-
ting their son Elmer and family at
Sulphur, Okla.
Mrs. Eta Smiley is staying with
Ann Holland while Mr. and Mrs Hol-
land are away visiting.
Mrs. May Anglin had public sale
recently, preparatory to moving to
California The sale was attended
by good-sized crowd.
Quite a number from this locality
attended the entertainment at Robi-
nson Thanksgiving night. The pro
Gram was well rendered
Mr. Buckley and family, who moved
on the old Joe Smiley place, which
Mr. Buckley recently purchased. They
seem to like their new home fine.
Aunt Sarah.
The Springdale news., 1916-12-08

We understand John Redman has
joined Uncle Sans boys.
The teachers institute was held at
Oak Grove Thanksgiving day.
Joe Beasly of Bethel visited his
daughter, Mrs Jeff Terry, Sunday.
The doctors performed an operation
on little Gail Stampers throat last
week
w. C Spyers is working for F. F.
Young and will move his family on
Mr. Young's farm soon.
Miss Grace Mcbride, who works
in a store at Fayetteville, is visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs P. A, Nc
Bride, at this place.
NJ. E Downum had a public sale
Tuesday and most everything sold
we'll. Mr. Downum will leave for
Texas in a short time.
P. A. Mcbride and family of West
Fork moved on their farm in this
vicinity last week land Herman Stark
moved to the Mcbride place at West
Fork
We learn that Miss Bessie Wash
burn Pocatello, Idaho. was married q
short time ago to a Mr. Brown Mis-.
Bessie formerly resided in this viein-
itY.
Road o=erSeer Hughes oil some
f.ne well. 81 he r I'D r-om oat Grove
to the to- I.lac. T.est. - roU.o
y. i g this .oad. al Uncle
Dick Sweeny, the carrier, thinks It is
fine automobile road
Johnny.
The Springdale news., 1916-12-08
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SONORA - BETHEL
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SONORA


Mrs. Ollie Vanzant of Habberton
was in Sonora last week,
Bro. Ed. Hale preached Saturday
night and Sunday at Sonora.
Walker Vanzant who has been
real sick for some time is improving
Mr.. and Mrs Tom Cloer gave a
Thanksgiving dinner to several rel
atives and friends.
Mrs. Mag Head of Mayfield spent
latter part of last week, visiting with
friends near Sonora.
Walter Donaldson, of Spring Val
lev. has recently moved to the Shan
kles farm near Sonora.
Mrs. Viola Honesty of Springdale
was visiting relatives in Sonora on
Wednesday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dallis Head spent
Saturday night in Springdale visit
ing at the home of Bob Stobaugh.
Mr. and Mrs. Murriel Johnson of
Mayfield spent Saturday and Sunday
with the latters parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Lee Donaldson.
Frand Cloer and family and Jim
Vanzant and family, who have been
living in Oklahoma for some time past
have moved back to Arkansas and rem
ted farms near Sonora.
Mrs. Hettie Cloer and family left
last week for Oklahoma for the bene-
fit of Mrs. Cloer's health. Mr. and
Mrs. Everette Head have rented the
farm of Mrs. Cloer, and have moved
to same, although Mr.. Head still OPP
crates the store at Heads Ford.
Tom Virgins Married
On Wednesday, November 29th,
Mrs. Alice Shankles and Tom Wig
gins were united in marriage, at the
home of Mrs. Shankles, Justice Fred
Reed officiating. Both parties are
we'll known in and around Sonora,
and have many friends who extend
best wishes.
The Springdale news., 1916-12-08

We had fine spelling at our school
Thursday night.
Mrs. Newkirk spent Sunday with
Mrs. G. A. Moody.
We had fine dinner at Bethel on
THANKSGIVING and a small program.
Mrs. Lykin of Centerton is visiting
with her daughter, Mrs. Noah Lewis.
Miss Ruth Graham of Accident, vi
sited Miss Flossie Moody Sunday af-
ternoon.
Bonnie Copp and Miss Thelma
Mishler of Lowell, were married last
Wednesday.
John Couch and daughter, of Mar
ion county, were here visiting Mr..
Newman's folks.
Thelma Moody, Earnest, Freddie
and Raymond Kuhnert, and Rollin
Solt of Springdale, were callers of
Charlie Frost Saturday night.
Mrs. Jeff Walker is quite better at
this writing. She left for Rock
Rapids, Iowa, where she will spend
few weeks visiting her parents.
Rollin Solt of Springdale spent
Saturday night with the kuhnert boys
Mrs. T. n. Ford left the latter part
of the week for few days visit with
relatives and friends near Cave
Springs