Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-14
The QMxotic Sim Fe;ners.
Christian science Monitor.

Take, as an example, the late Sim Fem
rebellion" Who but an Irishman would
have put off, in a collapsible boat, from a
German submarine, to start a rebellion
with a motor car and an organization
headed by professors? What but an or
ganization, composed of men with their
heads filled with ballads like THE Wear
ing of the Green and with romantic leg
ends like that of the Little Gray Woman,
would have imagined that it was possible,
in the midst of a great war, to challenge
the forces of the British empire with a
handful of green uniformed volunteers?
That, all the same, is Ireland, and Ireland
as you see it on the stage of the Abbey
theater, in the pages of Stephen Gwynn.
or in the dramas of Lady Gregory. is very
much nearer the true ireland than the
Ireland of the histories composed for pass
ing night school examinations. The Irish
man still hurries past the Banshee Tow
err, still rides in his dream with the Rap
parees, still pictures Sarsfield on the wall,
still lives in that world of romance and
imagination, with which the Englishman
and the Scotsman parted company when
the Arthurian legend passed into the realm
of the fairy tale, and the factory chimney
began to rear itself over the village street.
When, therefore, Mr.. Churchill gets up,
i'll the house of commons, and explains
that all that it is necessary to do, to Gre
ate peace in Ireland, is for Mr.. Redmo
and Sir Edward Carson to get together,
ne is making a statement. which no doubt
is perfectly true, but which is about as
easy of fulfilment as the idea that Mr..
Balfour and Mr.. Philip Snowden should
reconcile the point of view of the social
ist and the tory squire. Whether people
choose to say it or not, whether politicians
care to dwell upon it or not, Mr.. Winston
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Edward Carson and Mr.. Redmond know
equally we'll, that the dividing line be-
tween the north and the south is a re-
ligious one. 1t is the Boyne waters, the
street of Enniskillen. the walls of Derry.
that prevent the acceptance of the ma
tionalist position by the northern union
lists. The Presbyterian pulpits of Ulster.
the Orange lodges of Down, the linen fac
tories of Antrim, the s%hipyards of Bel
fast have raised a breed of men as differ
ent almost from those OF the Connemara
holdings. the fishing boats Of Bantry. the
cabins of Galway. the quays of Water
ford. as anything that could be imagined.
The fact is that the Irishman lives in n
world of exuberant exaggeration. Der
gOu." declared a corner-boy, standing in
the street of that d~ilapidatedly insirnif.
cant village, during q great world crisis.
'Bergou won't bear it!'' and that Ia the
attitude. not only of Bergou but OF all
!relano. unfortunately Bergou mistakes
itself for London and New York, for Paris
and Petrograd. Three men in a Bereou
street engaged in a dispute with the pc-lts
are. In the excited vision of Bergou, equal
to q Russian army. A street in Berxou
itself assumes the proportions of any
street that has ever existed from the An
plan Way to Fifth avenue. The buildings
OF Bergou are comparable or superior to
the ruins Of h Acropolis or to Lincoln
owe OF Wonder" Bergou. In short, not
onty VIII not bear Il. but II 10 convinced
that Il nsed not bear Il. In all this thor
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