New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-08


into open hostility except suppression
Of the force
Fair Judgment Needed.
This IA worthy Of record, as Il sp-
pearod a few DAYS before the out
break. In the last sentence we may
have a hint "a TO the spark that actually
lit the conhagration. But Judgment IN
Irish and Anglo America ought TO be
withheld until the whole matter IS
sifted with a Rhadamanthine scrutiny.
not from tho surface but from the
DEPTHS, reaching back to the days when
Carson landed his rifles in defiance OF
the law. moral and constitutional. Let
the gaelic and Carsonite movements be
arraigned equally.
The Gaelic movement, out OF which
the Sim Fein movement was Matched,
is not alone to blame. The sober, re-
spectacle leaders Of the Carsonite and
Redmondite movements may well search
their souls as 10 whether in different
and indirect ways they have not let the
Gaelic youth of Ireland rush into de
struction.
The Redmondite party has done some
great things. IL has won the land Tor
the Irish people and got them a uni
versity. Unfortunately they antag-
onized the Gaelic movement exactly as
O'Connell antagonized Young Ireland
before the outbreak OF i848), and the
result was that the radical Sim rem
element largely captured the Gaelic
movement and finally forced Douglas
HYDE 10 resign from its presidency Or.
Hyde had limited the Gaelic moveme NJ
to language and industrial revival. The
"the freedom Of Ireland'-and after
TWENTY-FIVE years of presidency DR..
HYDE resigned broken hearted, which Is
the one and only sign that man has
achieved anything for Ireland.
All Suffer Who Serve.
George Wyndham, Douglas Hyde
Horace Plunkett and now John Red
mond- have known and loved them
all-and insomuch as they each served
ireland well. so were they made by fate
TO suffer for il. Fate hates Ireland.
/ say again that the Irish party ought
20 have fostered and appreciated these
Young men before they were driven
into extreme courses. ! do not say the
Irish party drove them 20 their de-
struction. except in negative way: IL
was Carson's party which gave them
the aft rmative and positive example:
Having Joined in the chorus that
deplores and resents the rebellion !
should like 20 speak we'll about the
rebels who are dead. Only the dead arc
ever spoken well of in Ireland, anyhow
The names Of the intellectual leaders
the brothers Pcarse and MacDonagh
arc associated with St. Enda's school.
II WAS n school with which ! was con-
nected. where art. poetry and Ideallsm
reigned. The school magazine called
"Macaomh" (the Son Of Heaven, was
a work of art, full of beauty and orr
ginality. Pearse reyolutlonized the
irish school. as afterward he was to
revolutionize the Irish capital.
believe it will be by his academical
experiment that he will really live.
He was a poet and the history OF ms
school has become part OF Irish his
tory itself. St Enda's began as a
pastoral idyll and finished as fiery
epic under the burning ruins OF the
Dublin Post Office. | do not know how
many s.. Enda boys have been killed.
IL is six years since Pearse told me
that he one day intended TO lead them
into rebellion.
Well do | remember when the school
started with few boys sons of Ste.
phen Gwynn and John MacNeill). clad
in Gaelic dress acting Irish plays IN
the famous Abbey Theatre, perform
ing Cuchulain pageants and delightng
the artistic world Of Dublin.
Pearse Purely Poet.
Pearse was "a utterly poetic in MS
nature as Shelley and just as revolu-
tionary and impractical. must be
perhaps the only person who knew
Pearse and Rupert Brooke at the same
time. May I say that there was the
same careless, life joyous, death care
less strain in both? But Pearse had a
sinister touch that was lacking IN
Brooke's radiancy. | attribute 1t "a
the terrible heritage which affects all
minds that try 10 think and work Tor
Ireland like a curse.
There must be something wrong in
conditions that make intellectual
anarchists. that send gentle school
masters and boyish poets 10 die in the
Tower Of London.
can only look back on St. Enda''
with an agony of grief. ] can see the
killed boys sporting on the grounds
drawn from Irish families all over the
world -Pearse instillng the old law:
OF chivalry. kindness 70 animals and
fervent idealism into the boys in the
purest Of Irish; MacDonagh teaching
French ballads and the making Of Eng
+ lsh poetry; William Pearse teaching
+ the elements OF the fine arts and Incl
dentally building some war chariot'
Of the old heroic age for the pageant
. II these poor fellows had driven down
on the machine guns in those Celtic
chariots 10 would not have been more
fantastic than the whole attempt.
One Of the last statements Pesrsc
ever wrote has just come into my
hands
"Ereednrn Ia so snlendid a thing thai