Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-13
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were shot dead in the Tower OF Lon
don Two days before they had been
made prisoners I'm Dublin The vim
dictive haste displayed in their sum-
mary execution was intended to ter
rorize Irish patriots. 1t was the be-
ginning of the butcheries ordered by
the military satraps who now reign
supreme in Ireland. In quick sue
cession nine other Irishmen paid with
their lives for their devotion to
Mother Ireland Many others were
sentenced by a drumhead Court
Martial TO various terms of imprison-
ment Some were condemned to pass
the rest Of their lives behind prison
bars; many were consigned to prison
cells for one year, three years, ten
years, according to the view their
military judges took Of the part their
victims enacted in the rebellion.
And so day after day sentences
worthy OF Lord Norbury himself
were meted out without eliciting
from the coward lips OF John Red
mond one word of protest. Almost
a week passed before he summed up
courage to warn Asquith that the
saturnalia of hideous injustice that
was in full swing in Dublin had gone
too far Like the vile politician he
is he based his protest, not on the
nature of the crimes the military
satraps We're perpetrating in Dublin,
but on the probable political effect
Of the commission of those crimes.
Rising in his place in the House OF
Commons on last Monday. five days
after three OF his countrymen had
been done to death in the Tower OF
London, he in q coid-bloOded manner
interrogated the Premier about the
Dublin butcheries. The substance of
his remarks is given in the following
cable dispatch: He suggested that
the continuance of military cXecu
tions I'm ireland was causing rapidly
increasing bitterness and eXaspera-
tion among a section OF the popula-
tion which had no sympathy with the
instruction. He asked whether, fol-
lowing the precedent set by General
Botha In South Africa, the Premier
would cause q stop to be put TO eXecu-
tions."
The humble manner in which the
Premier was asked to help in putting
stop to the numbering of Irishmen
undoubtedly explains the insulting
answer returned by Asquith, who
told Redmond that the Government
had great confidence" in the dis
cretion of General Maxwell who is
supervising the butchering Of Irish
patriots. Thcreupon Lawrence Gin
nell the only Irish member OF Parlia-
ment who has acted q mans part in
this whole hideOus business. sprang
to his feet and asked the Premier
point blank whether further execu-
lions would be stopped until Parlla-
ment would have an opportunity to
discuss what Maxwell and his fellow
butchers had already done. Here is
Asquith's reply to thisquestion as en-
bodied in a cablegram just at hand:
"Mr. Asquith said that he could not
give an undertaking that no more
men would be put to death before
opportunity was given for the dis
cnssiOn OF the matter in the House.
The Premier had scarcely ceased
speaking when the cry of Murder!
Murderl" was heard reyerberatine
throughout the House. II was the
voice OF Lawrence Ginnell denounc-
ing the heinous crimes perpetrated
upon men OF our race. The echo OF
that cry had not YET died away when
four more Irish victims of butcher
Maxwell were shot to death-four
more indictments in the count the
Irish race viii frame when the day
of reckoning with England arrives.
The blood OF the twelve Irish patriots
done to death within the last week
must be atoned for sooner or later.
II win not remain unrevenged.
The savage ferocity now displayed
by the English government is brought
out more clearly by comparison
with the course the United States
government adopted after the sup
preston of the greatest rebellion
known to history For four years the
land had been deluged with blood.
Hundreds Of thousands Of lives had
been sacrificed. Yet when the Con-
federate armies surrendered. the life
Of no Confederate officer or private
was taken by way of reprisal The
attitude of the North toward the
South was shown in the order Of
General Grant permitting the Con-
federates to retain their horses. The
great Union soldier said in reference
10 this order. They will need these
horses for their spring ploughing.' =
Later on Jefferson Davis, after he
was arrested in a charge Of treason,
was never brought to trial.
In marked contrast with this treat
ment OF conquered foes are the
wholesale murder and imprisonment
of the Irishmen whose brave fight
against Overwhelming odds won for
them worldwide admiration. The
brutal English have shown them
selves incapable Of manifesting the
noble generosity of the American
people who never thought of wreak-
ing revenge upon a defeated foe.
The result Of that generosity is seen
IN the perfect union of hearts that is
such an element of strength for the
Republic In Ireland the effect Of
butcher Maxwell's wholesale slaush-
ter OF the bravest Of our race will
further intensity the resolve to have
no peace with England till the native
land of Padraic Pearse and his fell
low martyrs shall have recovered her
stolen Liberties