The Irish standard., 1916-05-27
England U. S. Foe, Easement
Says Declares British
Are Blocking Peace
IRISH PATRIOT INSISTS WAR WAS CAUSED BY
GREAT BRITAINS INsATIATE DESIRE TO
THE
By Sir George Easement.
RULE THE SEAS"

will of America.
I'VE make mention of them be-
cause such incidents are likely to re-
peat themselves more and more fire.
quently in that competition for naval
supremacy in Europe which compels
the United States to put her own fleet
into working order and to join in the
work that England has hitherto been
obliged to perform unaided.
ut is England that policies the seven
seas, and America has reaped no small
benefits from the self-imposed task,
an aspect of the matter to which every
thoughtful American is fully alive.
ut is, indeed, hardly too much to
say that the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine is at the present mo-
ment almost as fully guaranteed by
England as it is by the country which
enunciated the policy and is the chief
gamer by it. 1t is case in which a
silent understanding is of far greater
value than a formal compact that
would serve as target for casual dis
content on this side or that
Says British Dislike U. S.
The article concludes by proclaim
ign the precious performance of an
unseen bond" and the lofty and endur-
ing worth of good faith mutually &C.
knoWledged and the ultimate solidiar-
ity OF mutual interests rightly per-
ceived." "The ultimate solidarity
aimed at by those who direct these
worldwide announcements is not one
of mere sterile friendship between the
American and the British peoples.
American friendship with England is
only worth having when it can be
translated by world acts into enmity
against Germany.
That England today loves America
no one who goes to the private opin-
ions of Englishmen, instead of to their
published utterances or the interest
eulogies of their press, can for a mo-
ment believe.
The old dislike is there, the old
supercilious contempt for the CYAN
kee' and all his ways. Goods Eng
lishman" no more loves an Ameri-
can citizen now than when in 1916
he seriously contemplated an invasion
of the United States and the raising
OF the negro slave population against
his "Anglo-Saxon kinsmen."
Today, when Ne hear so much of
the Anglo-Saxon alliance, it may be
we'll to revert to that part of history.
For it will show us that if British
premier today can speak as Mr.. AS
quith did on December 16, 1912, in his
reference to the late American am
bassador as "a great American and a
kinsman," one Sprung from a COM
mon race speaking our own Ian
guage, sharing with us by birth as by
inheritance, not few of our most
cherished traditions and participating
when he comes here by what l may
describe as his natural right in our
domestic interests and celebrations"
then his new found kinship takes it's
birth, not in any sense of common race
indeed, but in fear of Germany.
Says Irish Were Robbed.
In 1916 the British army was en-
gagged in robbing the Irish people of
their harvest in order that the work
of the famine should be complete and
that the then too great population of
Ireland should be reduced within the
limits claw and order" prescribed,
either by starvation or flight to Amer
lea.
Fleeing in hundreds of thousands
from the rule of one who claimed to
be their sovereign, expelled in multi
tude exceeding the Moors of Spain,
whom Spanish king shipped across
the seas with equal pious intent, the
fugitive Irish nation found friendship,
hope and homes in the bosom of the
great Celtic republic Of the West. All
that was denied to them in their own
ancient land they here found in a
new Ireland growing up across the At
lantic.
And the hate of England pursued
them here and those who dared to give
them help and shelter. The United
States were opening wide their arms
to receive the stream of Irish fugi-
tives and were saying very harsh
things Of England's infamous rule in
Ireland. This could not be brooked
England, in those days, had not in
vented the Anglo.Saxon theory of man.
kind, and United Germany had not
then been born to vex the ineptitude
of her statesmen or to profit from the
shortcomings of her tradesmen.
Considered War with America.
So the greatest ministers Of Queen
Victoria, seriously contemplated war
with America and naturally looked
around for some one else to do the
fighting. The Duke Of Wellington
hoped that France might be played on.
The Mexicans, too, might be induced
to invade the Texas frontier. But
greater infamy than this was serious
ly planned.
Writing from Carlsruhe, on January
26 12A6 IN hio Frlond Alexander Snnn.