The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-07-25

which is brought to this country D.
cable, that if the Irish nation rallie;
: the world will see "a sovereign IT'S
Il republic within two years. IN
: suggestion is naturally interesting
Is the fact possible? 1t certainly Il
not. and an imaginative author like
Fieeis should be able to see why /
is not. A republic in Ireland couie
only exist on the basis of England
, complete conquest, on land and or
: sea. by the Germans; for Irish indie
: pendence of England could be main
tanned only by Germany or by some
other power as strong as Great
Britain -.
Let US see what the situation IS.
Great Britain and Ireland lie side by
side. They are separate but closely
neiehbrred portions of the same is
land group. Their land areas, on op
posite sides of the North Channel.
are only twenty five miles apart. The
western shore of England and Scot
land make a bend h;ch strateget
! icalIy mods Ireland within its lines.
and at the same time presents Ire
land as cantle sticking into Great
Britain's. Great Britain's sea-road TO
the western world lie past LELAND s
door; in fact Ireland is England's
Atlantic door Ireland completely
blankets the English coast If it were
independent and unfIiendly, or if it
were nomiraily Independent and
Ileagued with an unfriendlv power,
England Scotland would be but
pawn in Europe's game, If Eng
lands ships could not ride in their
own harbor at Queenstown. they
might as we'll keep off the seas alto
gether.
Now this is the very thing. no
doubt, that Darrell Figgis and his
fellow Sim Feiners would like to
see; but the question is: How do they
expect ever to bring it about SO long
as there is an ounce of strength left
in the British natiAn? Tie popula-
ton of England. Scotland and Wales
is 41,669, 1884; that of ireland 1885,
554, including Ulster. This disparity
of strength and resources is vastly
greater than that Of population. Great
Britain has on enormous navy-lre-
lard not a ship. Great Britain has
an immense army-Ireland scarce a
single musket Nnthing ever more
impossible to England was ever sug-
eested than the independence of Ire
land. ard nothing was ever more
Quixotic than the suggestion that
ireland will be abe to gain complete
independence alone. For the fact
that they must always have some
LoIitical connection with England.
Irishmen have only the Almighty to
thank. who placed their smaller end
poorer island in the physical arms
of greater and richer island
This icing indisputably the case,
the only possible hope for Mr.. OAR
rells entirely independent Irish re-
public, in two years or two hundred
years. rests upon the overthrow of
England, and this independence now
a hostile ard a Warlike act, a Ger
man act, against Great Britain 1t is
what makes the advocacy of indie
penGence for Ireland just now, in
the UUit d States, a proceeding of q
warlike nature against q country
with which tie United States is al
lied 1t is consequently very mis-
chievous agitation, from Americas
point Of view, and any indulgence
in it on the part of the American
citizens gives US the measure of
their loyalty to this country and
shows US that they are willing to do
a thing which is distinctly on the
side of our enemy, Germany"
A BRAVE AND LOYAL freshman
Seret Michael O'Leary will be re
called by your readers. Were he
alive today undoubtedly he would
lie against the Sim Foiners Irelands
enc mis-. For his exploits at Cuiu-
chy, France, he won the Victoria
Cross and was promoted from lance
corporal TO sergeant on the field.
The terse official report of the Irish
mans bravery follows For con
spicuous bravery When storming
one of the storming party which adj
vanced against the enemys barri-
cade. O'Leary rushed to the front
and himself killed five Germans who
were holding the first barricade, af-
ter which he attacked the second
barricade, about sixty yards further
on, which he captured after killing
three of the enemy and making
prisoners of two more. John NJ
Quinn in Lincoln Times.
W. III. Dugdale writes the editor to
explain why he has been prevented from
CARRYING out the promise made The Re-