The Alaska daily empire., 1916-07-10
SITUATION DEMANDS oLEMENcY
The demand for clemency for Sir ROg,

Tho demand for clemency for Sir Roger Case ment convicted Of treason in connection with the ate so-called Irish rebellion continues to grow. Those making the demand. generally speaking do not at ,ernpt to ouestion the justice of Sir Rcgers congic tion No account is taken of his guilt or innocence The conviction that Great Britain was unduy harsh in her treatment of the late rebels and that there were needless and unjustifiable executions m DuDIn' IS worldwide and particularly strong in the United States and it is believed that the best reparation that can be made for the cruelty is to show mercy uow
 If is conceded that these execution of Irish rebeIs" cost Great Britain more of American sym pathy than anything that has occurred since the oe ginning Of the This IS apparent by tne eul'oi comment of American papers. British treatment o, Ireland delayed for many decades the tenulhess hat Americans finally came to feel that they poSsesSeo for Great Britain after home rule for Ireland hau apparently become a fixed policy or that country Americans resented the iron rule and strong arm that SO often had made to do service in Ireland ana recognized it as an eXemplrcation or the oiu spr1 which caused the Revolutionary War and sep&rStlon' Cruelty to the Irish and denial or lrlsh Jusuce kept ablaze the fires that George kndled for many years md they burned so brightly for several generations thet twisting the lions tail" was fayorite occu- patton in this country
 The World Times and Post, all New York papers friendly to the Allies in the war now progressing lh Europe. are typical Of general American newspaper comment on the recent wholesale executions.
 The World says:
 The Premier's appeal for sympathy with the victims Of the rebellion was Just; put when He smoke the fight was over. The word or the nOur was Nr Dulon's: "If Ireland were governed by men ont of Bedlam they could not pursue more insane policy" Cancellation had been tusing the two races-and now a river of blood IS wash ing out our whole ufework.'
 If even now we can be what has happened sixteen men have been killed in cold blood TOT deeds like those that were forgiven De wet One was slain for murder" which calls Tor proAc trial The shooting of another seems to MT AS ruifh himself "an ineXcusable act' Are there 10 be more? Are the rivers of blood at last damned? Will the humane Liberals condone bru, foIty more natural, Mir. Dillon says in the old Ascendancy Party. that would balk Home Rule at any cost?
 What Great Britain does with Nationaiiss may he no business officially of the United States But fbe resolution introduced yesterday by kepreSeh- fafiye Dyer is the sentiment of the American peo- DIe Humanity is best served. by Governments that being liberal mercifuL That IS tOlay Inc feeling of the neutral world; tomorrow lt VIII be the feeling Of all that is best and most en- Uchtened in Great Britain
 The Times says;
 I'm thinking of the Irish rebellion. which Mr Ns0uitb's government weak m repreSSlng and is so stern in punishing, the words of Charles IT nm The work of Sir William Berkeley, Royal Governor of Virginia after "Bacons rebellion, come to mind: "The old fool has killed more neonle in that naked country than 1 did here for .Es T,rIer of my father" Fourteen persons have ,ec, evecuted two or three apparently sacrificed ,C official stupidity. But the whole proceeding is irrreditably stupid. Seventythree sentences or