The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
SITUATION IN IRELAND IS
AGAIN REPORTED CRITICAL
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stand for Ireland, or they are doomed
at home. They dread an early cleo
ton, for Sim Fein is in majority
at present in many constituencies, and
they must fight the government in
London in some fashion.
The young clergy of Ireland are
rising against them. There are no
funds coming from America save for
the revolutionists. The parliamentary
delegation is split in factions. Failure
has logged their every move for two
years. The home rule act is impos-
sible of execution. All of the cards
have been played badly, and they
know full well that after the recess
they are doomed in Ireland unless
they can in some way rehabilitate
their shaken selves at this session Of
Parliament.
They finally plucked up sufficient
courage to throw down the gauntlet
to England on several propositions.
They were beaten overwhelmingly in
the House of Commons, the only votes
cast in their favor outside of their
own, coming from the socialists Of
the labor party. The coalition gov
eminent solidly opposed Mr.. Redmond.
Irish Party's Pledges.
The Irish Parliamentary party has
pledged the Nationalist of Ireland
that they will make the following de-
mands of the British Government:
/. Enforced military service shall
not be extended to Ireland.
2. Immunity for thousands of in
termed political prisoners.
3. Reduction of life sentences on
rebel prisoners.
4. End of martial law.
5. Adjustment of Dublin Castle
rule.
6. Home rule.
On all but the first one, conscrip-.
ton, the party has been defeated by
the government.
England must have 100000 Irish
men to win the war;" That is the
Cry in every part of England and
Scotland.
"Why should we do our bit, suffer
and die, and let the Irishman live?"
is the denunciation. "The Stacker
will take our job and the bread out of
our wives and childrens' mouths"
So the Irish worker is hunted out
of every field in England and driven
back to starve in the bleak lands of
western Ireland.
Outside Of Ulster not 5000 men
have been gathered from Ireland into
the army since the April rebellion, and
they are mostly half-starved, unem-
! ployed men. But the British conscrip-
tion vultures are on the wing. Red
; mond insisted that $4,000 men all
told had gone to the war from Ire
land. Lloyd George, secretary of war,
corrected him and said the official
figures were 100000
Sir Edward Carson writes: Gre
land has not sent more than to 6
per cent of her available men to the
front, outside of the northeast. She
is short 100000 men. Ulster has fur
nished more recruits than all the rest
of Ireland. But many men in Ulster
object to go and leave their places to
be filled by men from the south and
west"
| The Pail Mall Gazette" says: ere
cruiting has fallen so low in Ireland
that the Irish division may have to
be withdrawn from the field. The
bulk of the Irish people are Sinking.
1t would suit the enemies of the en-
pire very we'll if the number of it's
friends were reduced by the toll of
warfare, leaving the balance to swing
more heavily on the side of separa-
ton. 1t is hideous kind of calcula-
ton, but how much there is that is
hideous in the recesses of the Irish
race hatred the events of the past
year have demonstrated"
Recruiting is declining in Canada
and in Australia, where measures are
being taken to enforce CONSUMPTION.
The great army reservoir of India has
dried up because of seditions and up-
risings in that vast land of 100000, 900
oppressed human beings, and the In
dian troops have been returned to
India from France and other fronts.
England demands 100000 more
men and must have them to hold her
lines, and there are in Ireland soc, 900
available men whom England believes
may settle the war in her favor.
Thus the end of the year brings
forth new evils to Ireland as the spirit
of the martyred dead scars over the
stricken island.