Arizona republican., 1918-01-31
The Irish and Conscription


 Why the British government refuses to extend conscrption to Ireland when is urgent need for man power is something that on this side of the water do not understand Conscription could be enforced and if it enforced it would reduce much of the muttering heard elsewhere in the empire But in dealing with Ireland the British government is suing the policy it has followed during the last half century within which the empire has been more closely knit together than it before Ireland is the only discordant element and Ireland will be brought into harmony. It is not that the British government is afraid of the Sim Fen. The British government has manifested fear of anything. is striving for the loyalty of Ireland and in this ef fort would before this granted home rule if the Irish themselves could have been brought into agreement for home rule.
 This has not always been the policy of Great Britain toward its colonies If it had been, there would be Irish hatred of England today. Possibly the United States would yet have been part of that nation which
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 Dominion palm and pine"
 Even the severe exigency of the cannot bring the British to abandon the policy by which the nation has been in the last half-century so strengthened and drawn together by bonds of loyalty
 It is the policy of the nation to bring formerly quered people to realize the benefcence of the con- queror and part of that policy is to give to the colo nies more than is received from them directly depend ing for reward upon the mutual commercial ad- vantages which will follow. The has brought to Great Britain another reward, substantial expression of loyalty and support which surprised even British statesmen.
 Twenty years ago the British nation thor oushly hated by the people of the South African publcs. Now, there is loyal part of the pire than South Africa. Botha and Shuts whose en- mity to Great Britain in the Boer might have been supposed to be undyng are patriotic any native born Englishman. South Africa only run by tho British troops in the Boer war, but not conquered The conquest was effected by the sub- sequent generosity of the British There was no humiliation hardship. Dominion having been established, the people made to feel that they had been benefited. Krueger died in Hol- land his body taken back to Pretoria with an escort of British warships.
 We do things differently in this country,-and More than fifty years ago the South was conquered by the North and there yet North and South, sectional antipathy which perhaps another half-century will not wholly efface. It is result of the war; but of events that followed the war; If Lincoln had lived there would have been no such fatal sequence. But when Lincoln died the iron heel of tho conqueror set the necks of the con- quered and kept there for ten years,
 result not only persistent sectional hatred but bitter partisan division which been revived in every national campaign and in every session of congress. Every succeeding government has been, not a government by the people and government for tho whole people, but government by the dom- nant party in which the opposing party has been made the subject of humiliation.
 That is why we do not understand the British treatment of Ireland. Great Britain needs soldiers Ireland could be made furnish 200 900 more and perhaps 100000 men might be the difference between victory and defeat in battle with the Germans this year. But Great Britain prefers to win Ireland establish loyalty there than to increase it's chances of winning battle by postponng it's final conquest of Ireland