The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-08-19

issued to Sir Roger Easement.
Well, senator, how is it today? l
this ministry fit for incarceration a
lunatics? Are they below the shrewd
ness of peanut politicians? Or ar
they good and noble men? Where i
the great seal whose bcneticent influ
ence was to be shed upon an lrisl
patriot?
The senate was not deceived. It re
jected the majority report OF the sen
ate committee on foreign relations ant
passed this resolution:
Resolved, That the senate expresse,
the hope that the British government
may exercise clemency in the treat
ment of Irish political prisoners ane
that the president be requested te
transmit this resolution to that gov
eminent.
The senate of a people for whom
Nathan Hale died could hardly do less
But it was not to be. a hundred and
forty years teaches nothing to those
in command at London Now, as then
patriots are to die in the vain hone
that freedom dies with them, For
Great Britain to deny attention to the
message of the United States senate
is small thing, perhaps. But that
message was delivered in behalf of
the neutral world of civilization, free
dom, history.
The end Of great persecution has
come. Great Britain had offered Case.
ment's body servant a thousand
pounds for evidences of his death,
But fate does not condemn brave men
thus to die in obscurity, poisoned like
rats in their holes. Easement was
caught where a patriot should be
found, in his native land, with his own
people, leading them towards liberty.
lreland's cause does not die with
him. 1t springs to new life.
Greater love hath no man than this,
| that he lay down his life for his
| friends.
Baltimore Sun: Great Britain pro-
fesses to be actuated by far different
spirit from that of Germany. Her own
injustice and oppression are respon-
| sible for the bitterness with which
many thousands of lrishmen regard
her, and yet she continues to feed the
ancient grudge which her own policy
created and has kept alive. She treats
ireland as a conquered nation and at
the same time holds her to the patri.
otto allegiance that she expects of an
English shire.
Great in diplomacy in every other
part OF the world, she deals with Ire.
land only to blunder. The English.
Irish feud has lasted longer than any
other racial feud known to history.
And England has herself largely to
blame for it. Sir Roger Easement
adds another to the long and sinister
blacklist which Ireland counts up
against England. Perhaps the time
may come when upon lreland's loyalty
may depend the fate of the British
empire. Strange things have been
known to history.
Boston Post: Sir Roger Easement
is dead, but the influence of his exc
cution for evil is only just beginning
No possible harm could have been
done in extending mercy to this man
on the contrary, it would have been a
striking act of good policy on the part
OF Great Britain to have committed
the sentence to Imprisonment: II il
not too much to say that in it's moral
and political effect it would nave been
worth more than a victory on the field
of battle.
| Lord Robert Cecil's statement that
the only ground for reprieve would
be political expediency, difficult
ground to put forward in this country, >
is nonsense. Great Britain has had
political expediency in mind in all hel
diplomatic decisions throughout the
war. Time and again she has yielded
to neutrals on the ground of political
expediency alone, and made no secre,
of it.
The hanging of Easement is a ter
rlble blunder on the part of. the re
sponsible British statesmen, and the,
will one dav rea1iun If
The Hanging Of Easement.
! Evening Sun: The theory upol
which the English government hanged
Sir Roger Easement this morning |.
quite explicitly set forth in the frs
paragraph of Lord Robert Cecil.
statement issued Yesterday, wherein
he says:
NO doubt of easements guilt OK
lists. No one doubts that the cour
and jury arrived at the right verdict
The only ground for a reprieve woul,
be political expcdency, a Difficult
ground to put forward in this country
ms country never could strain tn
law to punish man for the same req
son that it could not strain the law I
let one off," ..
The only comment worth while NAL
ing on this is that Major Arthu
Lynch, who sits today in the sam
House of Commons with Lord Rohor