The Irish standard., 1916-07-29

bed, or taken bath, yet all are fight
ing for civilization.
Preparedness: This is an American
question. All the big warning nations
had spent more on war preparedness
than Germany and most of them were
better prepared: but this was left for
our frenzied press to conceal
Armies: From the beginning there
were three of the allies to Germany's
one. Now the ratio is one to five, but
one fighting for all that is dear in life,
his God, his country, wife, children,
and his earthly possessions, while the
allies state that it is the German trade
and German territory that they want
(See recent press dispatches.) God
of today as in the days of Deborah
gives strength to the arm defending
the sacred fireside. God gave strength
to the Boer nation when it was being
despoiled and when every woman in
her dotage, women in childbirth, chill
dren of tender age; all were herded
together in an open pasture, for two
years on the prairies of South Africa
where with the heat in the summer
and cold in the winter, 24,5O0 died.
Every child under the age of years
died. Recently a monument has been
permitted to be erected to the memory
of the 24,5O0 women and children who
died from want, disease and cold on
this open prairie. (See Twin City
papers of 1900 for particularly
You believe that Germany wanted
what was left of the whole world. To
tell the truth, there is not much left;
for England, France and Russia have
it ALL
To England belong the following
nations and colonies:
Unhappy Iceland.
Newfoundland.
The whole of Canada.
Nova Scotia.
Falklands Island, the key to the
Straits of Magellan.
St. Helena, the key to the South
Atlantic.
New Zealand.
The continent of Australia, taken
from Holland.
Tasmania.
Hundreds of islands in the Pacific
Ocean.
ALI of BorneO.
Hong Kong, commanding southern
China.
Shanghai, the key to the Yangste-
Kiang River and central China.
Wei Hei Wei, the key to Pekin, and
northern China.
Half of the Kingdom of Siam.
The Strait Settlements.
Singapore.
Burmah.
The enormous Empire of India, with
350,000,O00 of people and with enor-
nous wealth.
Cashmire.
Thibet, taken from China since the
war.
The whole of central Asia.
One-half of Persia with it's enor.
nous oil deposit.
Afganistan.
Beluchistan.
The mouth of the Euphrates River
and the Garden of Eden.
Alden, the key to the Red Sea, the
straits of Bal-ElMandab.
The Suez Canal, paying so per cent
year in dividends earned on neutral
shipping.
Lower Egypt, Middle Egypt, and
Upper Egypt.
Soudan.
Cypress, the key to the Eastern
Mediterranean.
Malta, the key to the Western Medi-
terranean and the Fortress of Gibral-
tar, filched from Spain, and the key to
all the oceans.
of the Dardenelles, another key and
this one to the Black Sea-
Port Guinie
Seara Leone.
| Dahomey.
| Nigeria.
German West Africa, with the
worlds greatest diamond mines.
German East Africa, bought 80
years ago from England.)
Basutuland
| Cape Colony, taken from Holland.
Rhodesia.
| Transval.
| South African Republic, or what was
republic before England crushed it.
] Uganda, where Roosevelt hunted
and was infected by the British Tory
Fly.
East Africa.
Zanzibar.
Sokota Island
The Gilbert Islands.
And the following. which are a di-
rect menace to our country:
The Island of Bermuda. threatening
New York and Philadelphia.
The Bahamas.
The Lesser Antilles.
Trinidad, the key to South America.
Jamaica with a first class fortress