Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-13

are not raised, or are trained SLOWLY
and in a half-hearted and muddling
fashion, the Germans will conclude
that they have nothing to fear from
the United States and Will continue
their efforts for a military draw.
They have very good chance of got
ting draw, in the opinion OF some
of the best critics in Europe, unless
the United States sees fit To prepare
to deal the deciding blow against
them on land.
Has Helped Ireland.
Reports from Ireland indicate that
the Intervention of the United states .
has dismayed the extremists and less
ened the bitterness prevailing among
lrishmen against England, for Amer .
lea and the Irish Americans are ad- .
mired and respected, and the mass or
the Irish peasantry will not believe .
that the United States would Join with 4
England, with the support of the bulk
of the Irish Americans, in an unjust /.
aggressive war such as agitators have /
told them England is waging.
The home rule sore remains, but
the better feeling produced by VIII
sons speech and American belliger-
ency makes settlement more likely
when the government tackles the prob
lem. There is more hope here of OBJ
tanning some new Irish divisions from
the $4,000 men of military age still
unenlisted in Ireland than there was
before our break with Germany. | am
told that from all parts of Ireland
within the past two weeks reports
have been coming in that lrishmen,
with all the world at war, are feeling
"A little out of it, and are willing to
fight If the Ulster controversy can
only be patched up and home rule IN
troduced. Moderate Irish feeling also
counts on President Wilson to use his
influence, If necessary, to obtain Tor
Ireland what the allies are seeking to
win for other nations, n boon England
in her present mood would he glad
enough to grant if the Irish could
agree among themselves.
The attitude OF the Nationalist Irish
towards American intervention was
expressed yesterday by the Freeman
Journal the Redmond official organ
in Dublin. which stated: 1T is quite
true that nobody would expect Amer
lea to interfere in England's domestic
|, differences, but as time goes on it is
unthinkable that America, fighting for
E the principles laid down by President
Wilson and having such a large popu-
lation of Irishmen in her states, Will
= not point out to England the necessity
; of acting in accordance with her own
principles
Copies of President Wilson's speech
| to congress just before the declaration
of war are being distributed by thou
| sands thruout Ireland. 1T is the best
pro-ally propaganda we have had dur
ing the war said an Irish Nationalist
NJ. =. enthusiastically. at is counter
acting the pro-German intrigues
| among thousands of people who would
not believe in anything put forward
l. by Englshmen. Among the more ig-
norant classes in Ireland, the United
Il States has been looked up to as the
Il inveterate foe of England, and now
that America has come in with Eng
land the irreconcilable Irish are com
| PEELED to revise their attitude, to be-
II come anti American as we'll as anti
| British, or else to support England
in supporting the cause Of the United
States Most of them are taking the
| latter course"
II See We Are In Earnest.
II As time goes on and the energy
| with which America Is throwing her
] resources into the war becomes better
| understood, many Observation-Disclosures
| which persisted in London even after
our break with Germany have been
| cleared away The suspicion, which
| as months went became u certainty in
| many minds that American talk about
| ideals and humanity was all humbug,
| and that American interest in the war
was strictly limited to the amount of
money she could make out of 1t, died
| hard.
No harm can be done now by plain
| speaking about the bitterness that eX-
listed here at one time. 1t was inn
possible for Englshmen, as for
l. Frenchmen, suffering the agonies and
| privations of the most horrible of con-
| flicts, to appreciate the attitude of
neutrality adopted by Washington. In
| a series of articles in a London weekly
which commenced, before the United
States declared war in an attempt to
help clear up the existing ill-feeling
| remarked Much has been written
about the necessity for better British
propaganda in America, but to the
writer the need for American propa-
ganda in Britain seems even more
pressing" and / summarized the view
voiced here by embittered Anglo
Americans, and naturally ad> Led by
many Britishers, as follows
america dishonored her signature
to The Hague convention by doine
nothing when they were violated; ha!
worked feverishly coming gold out o
the heart blood OF Europe. Will,
mouthing disgusting cant about ideall
and humanity; has ignored unheard o
atrocities, protesting only when th'
British blockade cut off her lucrative
trade with Germany; did not mov'
when scores of her women and chill
dren were brutally murdered on thu
seas-and now. at the last minute, i
coming in against Germany, too lat
to do any real fighting, but In. tim,
to pose as having settled the war, ant