The Irish standard., 1918-05-11

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ireland should,fe weight of Sir
Edward Carson's v .s, was made evil
dent from his interview on May 30th,
1914. in Belfas. $vhen. he said:
II have only come to complete prep
arations. The time for speaking is
past. 1 do not suppose shall make
any speeches except such as are nee
essary in my interviews with the
Volunteers And then, from the Ul-
ster Volunteer Headquarters, a docu-
ment was issued which was almost
German in it's completeness. 1t read:
81. Where are the nearest railway
stations, post offices, telegraph offices,
telephone call rooms, garages for mo-
tor repairs, farriers, bakers, grocers,
butchers, police stations, fire stations,
drinking places for horses, stables or
large empty barns; how far are they,
and what is the quickest way of get
ting to them?" (Note-It is useful
to be able to measure distance on
your bicycle, to know how far your
bicycle moves every time your right
pedal goes round.) 2. Where is the
where do the ladies live who are
working in it; where is the nearest
U. V. F. signal station? 3. Who are
the principal U. v. F. people, and
where do they live? 4. Who are the
principal Nationalists living near, and
where do they live? 5. How long
does it take you to get to the princi-
pal places round you by day and in
the dark? 6. Where can the follow
ing be got: Pickaxes, shovels, crow
bars, spades, barbed wire, wire rope,
sacks, bricks, buckets, jugs, coal, Pc
troll, firewood, lamps, oil candles, wag-
ons, carts, horses, bicycles, wheelbar-
rows? Z. Where can you get the
best view of the country round? 8.
What short cuts and hidden paths
are there? 9. Which roads are suit
able for motorists, and which are
not? 10. How many men can be bill
leted in the vicinity? (Note-Allow
a man per yard for front for buildings
only one room deep, two men per yard
at front of two rooms deep, and double
if two-story high.) II. How do you
make and read code message?"
Now the point to remember is that
Sir Edward Carson is one of the men
who must bear the responsibility for
the "gruesome tragedy" of the pres
ent war. And is there to be another
tragedy - this time in Ireland - at
the instigation of the same evil
genius? One of his henchmen, Hervey
De Montmorency, "a Clifton Hill, st.
Johns Wood, London, writes in the
columns of the Irish Times that Ire
land should have conscription, and
that "every day the Nationalists are
justifying CromwelPs government of
Celtic Ireland" which included the
slaughter of 100000 men, women and
children in Drogheda. Mr.. Harold
Cox, who is another Carsonite, writes
in the London Sunday Times with
knowing hint to the Government in
connection with the teaching of Irish
in the schools, that "in Prussian Po-
land school children are savagely fog
ged if they venture to use the living
Polish language at their lessons" The
London Herald, a Labor paper, de-
clares that "it is either madness or
criminal cunning which urges con-
scription for Ireland - that cunning
which argues that, as we have to keep
an army of occupation in Ireland now,
we might be the better off to promote
a rising, crush it numerically, and so
free part of that army for service
against our other enemies. It is this
| type of mind which conceals it's MUIR
derous plans in such inefable phrases
as the following. ut is understood
that the Cabinet has decided to apply
conscription to Ireland, preferably by
consent, or, failing consent, without
it," The above can hardly have been
written unless there was a good deal
of talk in England to that effect. If
such as the above-named paper has
forecasted could be accomplished,
then Sir Edward Carson would have
kept his word once more and Ireland
would have it's "gruesome tragedy
But we can hardly conceive that the
Government has become totally bereft
of it's senses, although the Premier
stated on Tuesday that Ireland was
to be included in conscription, and as
to Home Rule, ''the majority report
could hardly be said to be one of sub
stantial agreement" Now, apart from
all other considerations-how are the
food crops to be put in and harvest
ed if the young men are to be taken
off the land and sent out of the coun-