The Irish standard., 1916-08-05

lister of England, Lord Salisbury, made
haste over to corner in the north of
Ireland to light the fires of Orangism.
Those deluded people were led by this
notorious Carson, the same man that
has caused all the trouble at present
in Ireland, and who is yet cabinet
minister in England.
1t has been continual war between
Ireland and England the past 100
years, and will continue until those
nations are separated. Ireland wants
nothing from nobody; she simply
wants to be let alone. Some papers
claim that Germany instigated the
present trouble in Ireland. Why. all
Europe are numbering each other the
past two years, and for my part l have
been much surprised that Germany did
not send arms and ammunition of war
and officers to Ireland two years ago,
for there is nothing that Germany
could do to destroy England, as by
freeing Ireland from her.
England passed home rule bill over
year ago by a large majority. The
King signed the bill. Thanks to John
Redmond and his associates who have
CALAMITY fought for It. But England
declined to put that law in force one
year after it's passage. or the close of
the present war; the year has passed
but they fail to enforce the law. The
rebellion occurred in Ireland. If Ger
many had succeeded in landing arms
there they probably would make short
work of England; but fortune did not
favor them, so they surrendered. By
all the rules of war they were prison.
ers of war and should be treated as
such. The English British General
Townsend with 1900 men surren-
dered a few days ago to the Turks.
Will the Turks shoot those prisoners
OF war, as the English government
murdered those Irishmen? With those
facts in crude manner hurriedly
penned, | submit that any man of Irish
blood or lineage, that would fight for
England would deserve the fate of
those Irishmen which England is muir
dering at the present time.
A gentleman at my elbow just asked
me why I loved Ireland So Well, l
love her for having the misfortune of
being robbed, murdered and slandered
by England; but l love free America
one hundred fold more, because it is
a land Of freedom and equal rights
such as the human race has never
known. | love America because she
gives every man an opportunity to be
man amongst men. A man who mar
ries wife and loves her with all his
heart and soul until death will part
them. does not necessarily love his
mother any less. Those are my senti.
ments. l believe they are sentiments
of ?9lt of all those who have sworn
fealty to the Stars and Stripes.
The true American knows, feels and
with enthusiasm declares that of all
human emotions, of all human pas
sions. there is not one more pure
more noble, more conducive to good
and great and glorious deeds than that
which bears us back to the spot that
was the cradle of our childhood, the
playground OF our boyhood. the thea
tire of our approaching manhood
Has the Holy Book a passage more
deeply touching than that which pic
lures to us the daughters of cap
tive race. in their desolation of soul
weeping by the waters of Babylon
when they remembered their last
homes and the vanished towers OF
Zion? Has profane verse line more
eXquisitely eloquent than that which
tells us of the brave young Greek
beautiful and radiant as his native
land. bleeding and dying on the plains
OF l-atum, with his darkening eyes
fixed on Greece.
p. II. RAHILI.Y.