The Irish standard., 1918-10-26
TO ENFORCE con
ScRIpTI0N SAYS
DUBLIN paper

the English labor leaders who is as
sisting, started his recruiting CAM
paign on September IA.
The way to win nationality, he said,
was not by standing aside when their
cousins in America had rallied to the
cause for the Allies.
Some of them. he added, hesitated
because England was in the fight, but
the cause of the Allies was the cause
of France, America and Ireland. The
policy of raking up old feuds was not
the policy on which future could be
built.
Over 1000 Enlisted Voluntarily Since
May.
Protestants and Unionists are, as
rule, as much opposed to conscrip-
ton, says the Dublin Independent, as
Catholics and Nationalists. 1t is also
do not welcome conscription with the
same fervor as Sir Edward Carson,
their leader, for if they had been as
enthusiastic supporters Of compulsory
service as he would have us believe
they would not be so slack in respond
ing to the call for voluntary recruits.
So far the Belfast area has done little
better than Dublin, the headquarters
of Sim Fein. The quota from the
Belfast area, with population Of
7S5,114, is only $500, while that of
the Dublin area, with population of
769,532, is 11,700. On a larger popula
tion than that of the Dublin area the
quota of Belfast area has been fixed
at 5000 less, whereas, if strict pro-
portion had been observed the quota
from Belfast should be 240 more than
that for Dublin. Although the So
called loyalists of the northern area
have been thus favorably treated,
their professed loyalty has not yet
taken such practical turn as to war
| rant them in describing the people of
the South and West as "slackers"
Considering how the Government
in their treatment of this country
have falsified every pledge they have
made to small nations, how they have
broken every undertaking they gave
the Irish people, and have, not once
but many times, betrayed them, it is
really remarkable to find that in a
few weeks roughly 1000 have enlisted
voluntarily. Ireland has been freely
lectured on her duty. One would
imagine she had not out of her de.
pleted population made any contribu-
tion at all to the Army.
Does the Government thing they
owe no duty to Ireland? Are they SO
constituencies that they never con.
slider the effect upon high spirited
people of the denial of self-govern.
ment after repeated promises and of
the negation in our case of every one
of those noble principles for which
they say they are fighting? In the last
Tory regime the nobleman sent here
as Lord Lieutenant declared after q
short stay in the country that Ireland
should be governed according to Irish
ideas. Since then the world has ad
vanced a good deal in it's conception
Of political liberty. We have at pres
ent a Lord Lieutenant who had nj
sooner arrived in the country than he
proceeded to govern ireland, not &C
cording to Irish ideas, but according
to Prussian ideas. His methods arr
those of the worst type of Prussial
bureaucrat Everything he does il
. calculated to eXasperate the people
He is untitled for the Office which h,
holds and for their own reputation
: before the world, if not in the interes
of Ireland, the Government will b.
we'll advised to recall Lord French
No Irishman can quarrel with meas
ures to preserve the peace, to pr .
life and property; no Nationalist dc
sires to see violence and lawlessnes
go unpublished, but Lord French's re
gime is one of ruthless repression un
redeemed by any element of justic
or impartiality. Manifestly he know
nothing of Ireland, and his disposition
. seems to be to ride roughshod over IL
The British Government should no
give him the opportunity to carry ou
designs which would provoke anothe
Gladstone to say in the future of Ire
land that it's history in 1918 wa
marked by every horror and ever.
shame that could disgrace the rela
tions between strong country and .
weak one" We believe that II tn,
period for voluntary recruiting is in
definitely extended more fighters will