The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04

The Freedom of the Seas'' must make the DardaneIles international so great is the Black Sea and so az gressive the Turk; but so small and unimportant is the Atlantic, and so unoffending is England, that this for mula must confirm her in her suprem- acy, must leave her her 'tHeligoland.' .'' Good old Brittania- There is one formula, at any rate, you never fail to apply correctly: ''Whats yours is mine, what's mine is my own" And on the terms it applies there is no doubt you will join League of Ma tions, accept the Freedom of the Seas or any other partnership, in which you will get trusting fools to join you. Whether President Wilson is one of that number you should surely guess by now.
 Of course, we all know that you are not as that Hun the German, and that you desire your "Heligoland," so that you might control the seas and keep them free as you have kept them in the past Of course, you never inter fered with the trade or development of a neighbor nor struck down a po- tentian rival ere she raised her head. Of course, your NeIsons have not been as these pirate Tfrpitzs, yet for all might one not fear this "He1goland of the Atlantic as a standing tempta- tion to your virtue? Even the just may fall, you know.
 Think how much more respectfully the statesmen of Europe will rest Count Hertling and Co-not to men tion Mir. Wilson or America at all think how much more of a holiday the strategists will have, how much safer will be democracy, and how much more comfortable will we al be when this nightmare of "HeHgo- land" is given the right of self-deter- imitation, established as an fndepen- dent state, with international guar antees, a temptation to nobody-e menace to no5ody-her harbor. neither English nor German nol Dutch, but only as they ought to be her very own
 read in a paper the other day { message from a speech from one o: the gentlemen who were always asso- ctated fin my mind with the KiIkenn1 eats, because they always spoke o fighting Sim Fein tooth and nail.' The passage is:
 "President Wilson will regard thu opinion of those whom Ireland had trusted in the past rather than O those who have today allied them selves with the enemies of America and of liberty in Europe"
 We all know the position Ireland occupies internationally today I'm English propaganda of Car1so, North cliffe and their agents, helped b, such Journals as called themselve National, and, unfortunately, helpe' also by article of Irishmen in Bri t1sh magazines, which tried to n1is represent Ieland's position, and pre- 1udics Ireland before America Thi gentleman, and these papers, wer read in America-insfnuaceG TAat MI Redmond's party was the party tha Mir. Wilson should look to as express ing the will of tho Irish people
 We heard great deal recentf about Chicago and MT T. P. O'Con nor, who told the Irishmen in Chi cago that if they wanted to kno7 why it was they trusted John Red mond in the past, let them look g the speech he made there in 1SSi They trusted John Redmond the1 and those associated with him, be cause they thought he meant th things he expressed John Redmon then said:
 A-Che principle embodied fin th Irish movement is just the same prir cfp1e which was the soul Of ever Irish movement for the last ssve centuries, the principle of rebelin the rule of strangers, the princfpl of which Roe O'NeiIl vindicated { enburb, which animated Tone an Fitzgerald and for which Emmet saG rtficed his life"
 Yes Irishmen trusted John Ret rnond in the past because they bt 1iered he meant these things. He VI not John of the hundred surrender then. He was not John slithering 0 his knees backwards before Carsoi It was because he no longer stood fl those principles that Ireland did N trust him, as shown by Clare an Kilkenny, and previous to that Lont ford and Roscommon. and, plea: God. fin a week or two Armagh IT message that these elections sent America is that the principle and so'