The Irish standard., 1916-07-22
"Unbought Masses
Will Save lreIand''
Continued from Page 1.)

Hloau most powerful supporters in
the United States mean Mr.. Bourke
Cochrane, the famous orator. and Mr..
Michael Ryan, the President of the
United Irish League of America.
told them that the dismemberment
OF Ireland, far from winning them a
vote in America, would fill millions of
Irish hearts in America and every.
where else with inextinguishable ha-
tired for its perpetrators, and would
once for all silence men like myself,
who have spent the last twelve years
IN struggling and suffering to recon-
cile Irish Nationality with honest
friendship for England as we'll as for
every class and quality of our country
men. Because, what does this pro.
posal mean? Under the CHASTITY pre-
tense of giving us back our National
Freedom they propose a confiscation
OF Ulster vaster than ever was effect
ed by Queen Elizabeth or Cromwell
or King William, and they propose to
make us nation once again by split
ting us into two irreconcilable com.
pounds seething with racial and re-
ligious animosities.
That they should outrage and mutt
late our country in this way in the
old Cromwellian spirit of savagery
would at least have the merit of brutal
frankness. But, coolly to ask Irish Ma
tionalists to do this thing themselves
OF their own free will, through the
votes OF their own representatives is,
| think, the most unbearable insult
that ever was offered to Ireland in the
whole course of England's unhappy
dealings with us. The same system
OF Martial Law are disarmament and
intimidation of public opinion-the
same wholesale bribery of Irish repre-.
sentatives, by which Pitt and Castle.
reigh carried the Union is being en-
ployed no less shamelessly at the pres
ent moment to effect the still more
hateful crime of forcing Ireland to de.
stroy her life as nation by her own
hand
Some of those very members of
Parliament whom few weeks ago l
heard shouting in the House of Com
mons their horror and detestation"
OF the Dublin leaders while their lives
were trembling in the balance, have
actually been prowIing around the
English prisons tempting men, the
latchet of whose shoes they were not
worthy to unite in tempting them by
the offer Of their liberty to betrav the
country for which they would have
proudly given their lives. And what
is the object of all this haste and Sc
crecy and commotion? Is there an
unselfish man in all Ireland who does
not loathe Partition? Can they pro-
dlce any Party, Class Or Sect in all
this Island who will be benefited by
it, except the worst ring of place-hunt-
ing politicians that ever cursed and
disSraced our country?
They have added insult to injury by
attempting actually to persuade us
that the amputation of six counties of
Ireland by lreland's own consent will
be only a Provisional and Temporary
AmDutation.
They are after YOU to help them to
cut out the heart of Ireland on some
vague hope that they may possibly be
able to put it back again upon some
unspecilied resurrection day here
after.
They want you to surrender with
ireland's own consent a Province
larger and richer than Alsace, on the
assurance that nothing will be easier
than to patch the hacked and mutilat-
ed body OF Ireland together again in a
few months, when the victorious Ul-
ster Covenanters for some reasons not
explained wil-dd you ever hear the
lke?-be rushing back to throw them
selves into the arms of Mr.. Devlin and
his Tattcrdemailion little Parliament
OF place.hunters in Dublin But sup
pose Colonel Craig and his Covenant
erS 10 not yield to the seductions of
Mr.. Devlin--suppose that miracle does
not come off within the next few
where does he propose to
find the means of coercing Ulster?
l want to ask what does this pro-
posal of Mr. Lloyd George amount to?
Under the ghastly pretense of giving
us back our freedom, they propose a
! contlscation of Ulster, vaster than ever
Queen Elizabeth or King James or
Cromwell or King William carried out
and they propose to make Ireland a
Nation for sooth He (Mr. Devlin)
once asked the military to stand aside
and he would dispose of the Covenan-
ters In "a hours, but he now in his
funk and panic confesses that the
thing cannot be done-that Ulster can
| not be coerced without shedding
oceans of blood" and he mournfully
confesses now that England will never
do the shooting for him. We are told
there is to be an Imperial Conference
after the war. Yes, but even suppos-
ing that Conference should desire to
force Ulster back again into what re-
mains Of Tralonf1 ,rharo ;,