The Irish standard., 1918-11-30
CHURCH CALENDAR, WEEK NOV. 3o-DEc. 7.

CHURCH CALENDAR, WEEK NOV. 30-DEC. 7.
Nov. 80, Saturday-St Andrew.
Dec. |, Sunday-St. Eigius.
Dec. 2, Monday-St. Bibiana.
81. Dec. 8, Tuesday-St. Francis Xavier.
Dec. 4, Wednesday-St. Peter Chysologus.
Dec. s, Friday|st. Nicholas.
LLOYD GEORGE SLAMS THE DOOR IN IRE
LANDS FACE.
Politics never adjourns with the British Premier,
Lloyd George. The ink was hardly dry on the armi-
stice agreement when he made right about face on
his attitude toward the Irish question He now de-
clares that that question should be settled but
doors OF adjustment must be considered barred
that OF complete independence and the coercion of
Six counties of Ulster which refuse to ego along"
on the Home Rule program. When it is remem-
bered that in the Province of Ulster as whole the
Carsonltes have a majority of only one in the Par
liamentary representation it will be how mar
row and even grotesque is Lloyd Georges concep-
tion of the meaning of that democracy for which the
world war was fought and gloriously won. To
Americans the stand taken by the British leader is
utterly beyond comprehension or justification, if
we take at their face value all that has been said
by the statesmen of the Allied countries during the
past four years. The great tragic was fought,
as the world led to believe, to establish in all
countries the right of self-determnation of their
sovereignties by the peoples thereof Time and time
again has our own President authoritatively set
down this basic proposition in explanation and ust
6cation of our entry into the European maelstrom
But in few days after he sees that American CO.
operation is no longer absolute necessity to Brit
ish safety Lloyd George enters upon the English
election campaign with definite and clear repudia-
tion of these democratic princp Under the logic
OF the situation lrelands plea for complete
independence may we'll be sustained following the
action taken in respect to Poland, the Czecho-Slo-
walks, the Jugo-Slavs and the other submerged ma
tions which have now made their appearance the
horizon of liberty No argument principle that
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fails of application to Ireland distinct nation older
than any of them and older even than England it.
self.
Consistency and good faith the part of the
victorious nations therefore, require that the same
remedial treatment should be accorded to Erin as
has been given the small natonalties of the CONT
nent
But, says the Janus faced Lloyd George, opening
his campaign in the English elections, this door
must be closed and not only that but the gate of
self-government by Home Rule is also to be closed,
because of the disaecton of about onesixth of the
entire population of Ireland-the petty clique of
Orange recalcitrants led by Carson, who, next to
the kaiser himself, is the most responsible man liv-
ing for the horrors of the Armageddon. This twill
ful and perverse Orangeman with his following of
few thousand electors in six of the northeast
ties of Ireland must be sustained against the
will of fve-sxths of the total population. What do
Americans think of that kind of democracy? What
short work would be made of such clique of
malcontents if the situation existed in American
told where to "get off att? But in the boasted
democracy" of Britain such things are permitted.
And the leading statesman of the Empire openly
stands sponsor for this travesty of democratic gov
ernment!
What shall the harvest be? We know not, but
see in Lloyd Georges reversal of form the seeds
of trouble for Great Britain and the world. AS Mr..
O'Connor puts it, we Cannot have the liberation of
the world and maintain the enslavement of Ireland
Whatever might happen, let British folly and Brit
sh Junsers do their worst and Irish insanity do its
worst, let all the powers combine against them
when the world is free Ireland also will be free
What our own Lincoln has said, "this nation cannot
endure half slave and half ree," is now true of all
the nations whose fortunes were involved in the
Issues of the world war;
The outstanding principle for which the
world has gone through the unprecedented slaugh-
tiers and sacrifices during the past four years that
the rights of peoples to choose their own govern
ments must be established irrevocably in human
history and civic philosophy, but how utterly repug
nant to this ideal stands the declaration of the Brit
ish Premier in reference to the most conspicuous
instance wherein it is his obligation to apply it
in the case of Ireland!
DILLONS APPEAL TO WILSON.
Speaking at mass meeting at Free Trade Hall
in Manchester, which closed the convention of the