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New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Germany cares nothing for Ireland If
Germany were victor in this war she would
have but little consideration for the Irish
people. She used Sir Roger Easement as
tool, not because she was sympathetic with
the Irish aspirations for autonomy, but be-
cause she saw chance to injure England
If there is any delusion in Ireland regard
ing the possibility of German aid there is,
indeed, sad state of misunderstanding in
the island'
The Irish question comes to the front
again, "The Baltimore Sun" asserts, as
a menace to the United States as we'll as
to Great Britain and France. eve are
not uttering sweeping condemnation Of
the Irish people. They have been more
sinned against than SHINING. The Irish
Unlonlsts have as much to answer for,
if not more, in the past and present than
the Nationalists." And England is reap
ing largely what she sowed for genera
tions, but
1--WE can whip the Prussan without the help
either of the Obstetrics or the National
lists, and we are going to do it. And we
tHaHk Gou CnaC lew men OF irish blood IN
America belong to either of these scowling
clans at such crisis as this-that tho
great majority for the United States
first, last and all the time. In fact, such
American 1rishmen are truer to Ireland
than most of those who remain at home, If
we are to judge the latter BY the repre-
sentatives and spokesmen of the two par
ties. Here they are going to the front in
a spirit of devotion and splendid courage
that accords with all their best national
traditions, and they are working and sacri-
fcng for the national cause without meas
ure or without stint"
Probably nothing disclosed in the
whole controversy has aroused so much
bitterness in America as the statement
made by John Dillon: eff Irish liberty
were not at stake, I would not hesitate
to support the policy. never challenged
the justice of the war. l do not chal-
lenge it now"
The implication that Irish liberty is
not at stake called forth a storm of pro-
test of which the mildest form of express
sion is that used by "The indianapolis
News" which says:
I'm view Of Germany's conduct in Rus
sia, it may now be realized by all the Irish,
as 1t certainly is by some of them that, as
Mr.. Lloyd George said, this is quite as
much 1reland's war as it is England's. A
German army in Ireland is not pleasant to
think Of"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
An Error Soueyhere
No Stenographer

T 7 NFORTUNATELY for Mr.. Creel.
there was no stenographer pres
ent and whoever it was who wrote the
first newspaper report which attracted
the attention and aroused the ire of
certain members of Congress, whose ire
can be aroused on the slightest provo
cation, did not give the entire context
of the Inflated speech. Mr.. Creel was
quoted as saying he would be "glad to
his dying day that America was un-
prepared for this war" What Mr.. Creel
actually said, according to his own ver-
sion, is familiar argument which. in
deed, will not be ignored by historians
when they come to write of the justice
OF Americas cause. For the head of
the Committee on Public Information
claims that he said he was glad no man
could raise his voice in this country
and say with truth that America started
this war, that America wanted this war,
or that America had any selfish object
in going to war, for what better proof
could there be Of Americas disinclina-
tion to go to war than her own unpre-
paredness for war?
Dauid Laurence, n, "The Neau Yorh
Evening Post" washington
Tames," etc., Apyll Is.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Imposition True to
~ Tradition

Mr.. Dillon has, in fact, departed from
the views Of the late John Redmond,
says "The Philadelphia Inquirer" which
gives emphasis to Lloyd Georges state
ment that no member of the Nationalist
party uttered word of protest upon the
historic occasion when the German chal
lenge was accepted and war declared.
The hasty and rather Incorporate op-
position of Irish leaders in Parliament
to the conscription proposals of Lloyd
George is true to tradition, says "The
Philadelphia Press" but is none the less
deplorable for that reason. 1t asserts:
"The Irish are no slackers. Tens of
thousands Of them from England, Scotland,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
any genuine Irishman bear to be slack
err" "The Times" asserts that:

any genuine Irishman bear to be slack
err" "The Times" asserts that:
"Mr. Devlin and the other Irish Nation
alists who side with Sim Fein in opposing
conscription forget that conscription has
been found necessary for the preservation
of liberty by the United States and by Can
ada. For the preservation of Irish liberty
also it is necessary. All, but conscription
in the United States and Canada of Irish
men is mot by the English cries an Irish
member. Liberty itself is not worth fight
ing for if the English have hand in the
fght
eve cannot believe that the mass of
lrishmen Of Ireland, however much blinded
and bedevlled by politics, are SO blind or
so base as to sacrifice to an ancient grudge
the liberty of Ireland, it may be of all free
nations. And if any Irishman in Ireland
labors under the impression that Irish re-
sistance to conscription will find favor in
this country, where there are so many of
Irish descent, where among all sorts of
Americans there has been sympathy for
Home Rule. extreme is his delusion"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Norfolk Virginia-Pilot (Dem.>

), Creels record and character were such
.na1 ne should never have been appointed
TO position calling for high qualifcations
NOW that he has exhibited himself to the
country &C, he should be summarily removed.
ne bureau of which he is in charge has
peeh from the start SO mismanaged as to
pe SUBJECT OF contempt or Indignation
to the public, and now that Mr.. Creel bss
proclaimed individual sentiments at var;-
ance with the patriotic thought as we'll as
1eellng of the country the President will
err greatly if delaying to deprive him Of
further opportunity for doing mischief with
the apparent sanction Of his superiors.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Memphis Commercial Appeal.

"1rishmen, outside of Ireland, have en-
listed freely in this great war against au-
tocracy, the lists of casualties in the
British papers show, for Irish names
abound and they are from Australia New
Zealand, Canada, South Africa and every
British colony, while it is we'll known that
descendants of 1rishmen, whose homes were
in South America were among the first to
go to the defence of the United Kingdom.
"If by chance the member thought to in
clude American citizens of Irish birth or
descent in his expression, he shows very
little acquaintance with American affairs or
with the fact that men of foreign birth be-
come Americans when they are given their
papers. They formally renounce all allie
glance to their former country. In Amer
ica there will be no hearing on Irish poit-
cal questions because, except they affect
an ally in this war, we have no concern
with foreign politics, Representative
Flood, himself of Irish descent, declared
last week at Washington"
There will be trouble in enforcing con-
scrption "The Hartford Courant" be-
lieves, yet the law can be enforced there
as effectively as in any other part Of
the British Empire, and it argues that if
Lloyd George had not been convinced
that there were no insuperabe Difficult
ties in the way he would not have dared
to make the suggestion. "There will un-
doubtedly be agitation and resistance"
it says, "just as there has been in Que
bee, but the government will find means
for overcoming resistance and multiplying
the agitation" 1t continues:
"Mr. Lloyd George knows that the ora
tors will crate in Parliament and in Ire
land, that there will be some sort of riot
ing, that heads will be battered, that pub
lie sentiment against the law will be Gre
ated, but he knows that, after all, the law
will be enforced and that the Irishmen that
he gathers into the army by its process
will be loyal and sturdy fighters
Even stronger in favor of conscrip-
ton is "The Washington STAR" which
says "the prayer of Americans is that
the Irish people will prove loyal to the
cause that our government now supports
and that they will build for future polit-
ical freedom by present performance in
that spirit" Pointing out that it will
not advance the Irish cause to obstruct
the prosecution Of the war, it asserts
thAti
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Stenographic Report

THERE was stenographer present,
\ and the sentences attributed to
Mr.. Creel in "The New York Times"
account of his speech were taken from
the stenographic transcript. The stem
ographic report of Mr.. Creel's speech
which was used in "The Tines dis
patch was obtained from Rexford L.
Holmes, whose letterheads bear the
legend under his name: ~Shorthand
Reporter, Convention Reporting
Speciality" 1t was said at Mr.. Holmes's
office in the Southern Building this
evening that Mr. Holmes was the Off
cial reporter for the National Conyen-
tion Of American Lecturers, and as
such had reported Mr.. Creel's speech.
The claim made in the syndicate
article published this afternoon that
Mr.. Creel's meaning was not correctly
given, to put it mildly, is not borne
out either by the context of Mr.. Creel's
speech as furnished by Official Re-
porter Holmes or the portion contain
ing an expression of pride which was
used as the text of the severe criticism
of Mr.. Creel in the the Senate and the
House.
Washington special to "The New
York Times," April 16.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

r UNDOUBTEDLY Lloyd George
was right when he told the
House of Commons last Tues
day night:
"It is desirable in the interests of the
war that we should settle the Irish ques-
ton and produce something like content
ment in Ireland and good will in America"
But whether he is able to bring about
contentment in Ireland or not, he would
be astonished at the practically unani
nous expressions Of good will to be
found in newspapers of America tow
ard his administration of affairs
astonished because he is too well in
formed politician not to know that,
until very recent date American good
will and American money supported the
Irish National party. Knowing this, he
may easily have overestimated the
strength of the professional Irish Of
America and have failed to realize the
earnestness of those millions Of Ameri
cans of Irish descent who desire "con-
tentment in Ireland" but, above all else
in the world, passionately long to make
the world safe for democracy. Know
ing of the stream Of gold which flowed
to Erin during Parnells leadership and
before, knowing that America until re-
Gently provided hotbeds for the propa-
cation of the Sim Fein, he would be
astonished to see how small and noisy
the disloyal element in opposition is,
how little representative Of the true
feeling Of the mass of people proud Of
their Irish blood, in America, as we'll as
in Canada, Australia and the further
most outposts Of Anglo American civili-
zation.
Americans will not be surprised at
the exceedingly sympathetic tone of
comment on the Irish problem. Not
only are the Irish cousins to four-fifths
Of America. The remaining fifth would
also gladly claim kinship. The discus
sion in American newspapers takes the
tone Of a we'll ordered family confer
ence, and from the intimate knowledge
Of Irish history and sentiment dis
played it is quite evident that many of
the editorials were written either by
Irshmen or Americans Of Irish descent.
at is time for men who talk so
we'll about liberty to take their part in
defending it, says "The New York
Times" which goes on to suggest that
il the Irish won't fight "for the Eng
lish" they may fight for the French, for
the Belgians, for the United States
Fighting in the British army, they will
be fighting for liberty everywhere, for
Serbia ~ we'll as fox ireland. Glow can
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Country Is Aroused Over Creeps "Unprepa1

fact that our boys were equipped with
broomsticks when they went to war, but
that we had, as matter of fact, 5000
Springfield rifles and 100000 Krag-J orgen-
sons for million men.
MIR. Creel is proud of the fact that we
had no machine guns
MIR. Creel is proud of the fact that we
had no heavy guns.
Mr.. Crecl is proud of our airplane situ
alton. aud he is especially proud of the
functioning of George Creel.
we are proud of the American army. and
we are proud of the American navy. We
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
- Sioux Falls Press (Ind.)

II. IVY At the very great risk of being ac-
d 80 oi narboring belief that he could
81 we JOB better than George Crccl does
i i safe an active Newspaper writer venture
Hha 1aDlt with the marvellous per-
ps"ahess M of the head Of the Department Of
s.sae - information at Warrington, for Mr.
sassi Is roore Or less esteemed con-
sspefaTy u the brethren Of the press.
= take that risk, and acknowledge that
49, n@se on our own reportorial STAFF a
q VINO would hays better sense than
w up In public at time like this and
Isss Isss.ss ~ bs glad thet America was not
e uhsn VIZ entered the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
lle Montgomery Advertiser lDem.)

seoFgs Creel, chairman of the Committee
g PUBLIC Information and the editor Of
~ ~. oaicial Bulletin, has been rather un-
,n,uhate in some Of his public expressions
'aa IN some Of his acts. He is quoted as
as.ns in recent speech that he was
~ america wag not prepared in enter
sae war, and that military prepared
~. ~ was v.olativc Of American traditions
ssssafsiiy 10 strong partisan as Senator
sS'S 70 get By unnoticed. Accordingly
.ssas'Se - at once declared he did not see
~ man like creel should be retained
sa'ee when he "is sneared all over
81. sa lreason." Why should bureau chiefs
[ss,,esfately ~. 20 out Of their way to stir up
sss ssezs upon the Administration Crcel
sxs too much.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Canada and from Ireland as we'll volun-
teered or submitted to conscription and
fought bravey and WELL Hundreds of
thousands more in this country are wearing
the service uniform to-day wearing it glad
ly, proudly. The Erin Isle would be belly
ing its own gallant history if it turned its
back on the Allied cause in this critical
hour The surest way for Ireland to attain
the sort of Home Rule she desires is to
lend willing hand now that humanity
needs her."
Ireland is already committed to the
war, "The St. Paul Pioneer-Press" says,
and asserting that she already has 16O.-
600 volunteers fighting, it asks, why
should she withhold her remaining half
million?" A newspaper which has al
ways supported Irish Home Rule, "The
Buffalo Express" feels at liberty to use
somewhat undiplomatic language, say
ing: "The Irishman who does not con-
cede that it is the duty of his country to
fight Germany thereby puts himself on
the German side, and that means that he
classes himself as an enemy Of America
as we'll as of Britain and of France"
Lloyd Georges logic is irresistible, ac-
cording to "The st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch," and it says that if the Irish per-
NIT their own petty grievances and fac
tlonal interests, their preiudices and
quarrels to overshadow the vital issue
OF this war their folly be upon
their own heads. They will forfeit the
sympathy of the generous friends of lib
erty who have stood by them in the past
but have consecrated their lives and
fortunes to this battle. They will pass
into history as fools and slackers." "If
they cannot rule their passions now,'
asks "The Wheeling Intelligencer,"
what would they do with Home Rule if
they were endowed with it?" "Have the
Irish people lost their finer traits?" asks
1.-The Providence Evening News" And
it says:
Neither Dillon, o'Brien, O'Connor nor
Devlin can doubt our unselfishness There
is much to forget of England's stupidity and
English cruelties, it is true, but the United
States has been Ireland's friend, Ireland's
support and made possible such relief as
the Nationalist party leaders from Parnells
day down to the present hour have secured
for Ireland and her inhabitants"
"The Cincinnati Times-Star" finds the
attitude of the Irish members of Parlia-
ment distressing to many loyal friends
of Ireland in America" Other newspa-
pers supporting conscription in Ireland
are "The Providence Journal" "The
Rocky Mountain News" "The Oklahoma
Oklahoman," "The Charlotte Observer"
"The Boston Transcript" "The New
York World" "The st. Louis Republic"
"The New Haven Register" "The
Florida Times Union," "The Mont
gomery Advertiser" "The Omaha Bee"
and "The Kansas City Journal"
A class hopeful but doubtful of the re-
suit includes "The Boston Herald" ani
The Springfield Republican"
"The New York Evening Post" rea-
sons that "to get two or three new divi-
slons for the critical struggle in France
twice that number of old divisions would
have to be employed, not in fighting Ger
MANS but in dragging Irishmen to train
ing camps"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
From The Fourth Estate

The troubles of Mr.. Creel were taken up
by the executive committee of the National
Security League at its weekly meeting in
New York on April 10 in emphatic fashion.
Not only was Mr.. Creel personally CEN
sured by several members of the commit
tee, but after discussion it was decided to
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Altr'mism and Lmbreparedmess
From The Boston Transcript lind. Rep.)
Bakers "Joy"

H0uR entrance into the war .patu-
~ rally imposed upon t,out cours
try an unaccustomed, task, 1t. is not
uncommon to shear men say that we
were not prepared I've were not pre-
pared; we aHs&aot yetFprepared. But
whether or not that involves a criti-
cism or whethefit shows that we real.
ly believed ii our own ideals to such
an extent that we Believed it impossi-
BILE for any sane and just man to dis
believe in them, is question I take
a certain sort Of JOY i'll the knowledge
that we believed in them and in the
reality Of civilization, and it is virtue
to feel an incredulity toward the thing
which has come to pass"
Secretary Nea0tom D. Baker in his
address to the Boston Chamber
of Commerce, Oct. ID, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The San Antonio Express (D.m.,

Mr. CreePs words are wrong. His senti.
ment IS error. His CONTEXT is an unbapnv
confusing blunder. Peter the Apostle nut.
the truth well-and our own situation truly
In his First Epistle General: "Be sober.
be ylgilant; because your adversary the
devll, as a roaring lion, walketh about.
seeking whom he may devour."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

cans with their sons facing the great Teu-
tonic horde, three thousand miles away
from home, are not glad. Mr.. Creel may
be glad that America entered this war
unprepared and so, too, are the Kaiser and
the Central Powers, but there can be no
sane patriots in the United States who are
glad. 1t is useless to talk about it. Every
American is, or should be- ashamed of it,
but think of Dragging about it as Mr..
Creel is doing! Is it to be wondered at
that there are some Americans who have
little confidence in Mr.. Creel and men of
his type who are acting as the administra-
tions agents in helping win this war?
The New York Evening Sun Und. Rep.)
What nacnliar saa,:,,a,sit,<- -af s6,sl
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Creel's "Pride"

MERE was a question, when we
went to war. of preparation.
We had not prepared, and T shall al
ways be proud, to my dying day, that
there was no rush of preparation in
thfs country prior to the day the Pres
ldent went before Congress and said:
we are driven to accept state of war
by the aggressions of the German gov
ernment.' For to have prepared. to
have held out offers of peace with one
hand and attempted co1iciliation with
the other, and all the while have been
preparing for war. would have been to
give the lie to what we said, namely.
that we would not engage in war un.
less we had exhausted every resource
at our command"
Chairman George Creel IN his od-
dress to the National Conference
of Lecturers, April 8, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Indianapolis News (Tnd. Dem,

We wonder if this statement made by
Mr.. Creel shall take rank in American his.
tory with: Give me liberty or give mo
DEATH" 81 shall fight it out along this line
If it takes all SUMNER millions for de.
fence but not one cent for tribute" "You
may fire when ready, Gridley," and many
others. At the same time it is we'll to hear.
IN mind that Mr.. Gridley would have been
IN fine position had he saluted and then
reported to Admiral Dewey that lie was
not ready to fire! How we'll he would have
stood before the country had he announced
that he was without guns and ammunition.
and that he would be thankful to his DIVING.
day that ne was in no shape to fight! "War
3'ooo miles away" "too proud to fight" ETC..
utterances of the early war period no
longer reflect public opinion, neither will
the latest phrase. Force, force to the limit.
is the Presidents call now that we must ali
heed ''-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

ask Congress to abolish the entire Com
mittee of Public Information as at present
constituted. A resolution was passed which
calls for the conduct of the bureau "bv
three or five men not holding any other
public office and selected irrespective of
political affiliation."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The New York Call (socialiss)

Mr.. Greet, however, has not had the OPP
portunity to "come back" at his accusers
as yet, and it is altogether likely that he
will deny in toto their Interpretation OF
what he said But, in any case, the "arch-
traitor of the Republic" thing, we cannot
help observing at this juncture, seems alto
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Philadelphia Evening TELEGRAPH
(Rep.)

There were abundant reasons for dis
pensing with George Creel before he made
his amazing declaration. Action should
now be prompt Every loyal citizen regrets
that this nation was not prepared when It
entered the war. Every loyal citizen knows
that II 1T had been prepared the war would
nave been shortened, fewer lives would
nave heen sacrificed and the people would
not have been subjected to SO much suf-
fering.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Any newspaper "cub" of ordinary COM
mon sense knows that.

The Cheyenne State Leader (Dem.)
George Creel, free lance magazine writer
and erstwhile muckraker of "Big Businessn
and "Frenzied Finance" seems to have
gotten off on the wrong foot in his speech
the other night when he declared he was
proud that the United States was unpre-
pared when it entered the European war.
10 say the least, it was tactless .asser
ton; also, it was decidedly disloyal thing
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

The Hoboken Hudson Observer (Ind.
Dem.)
There is more than a modicum of truth
in the thought that lies behind the utter
ance, which might have been expressed in
such manner as to give offence to none
except those seeking to take offence, but
the language used fairly lays the, official
open to some of the castigation he received
yesterday in Congress, and affords his foes
plausible grounds for going after his scalp.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
From The Macon Telegraph (Dem>

george Creel is quoted as saying in a re-
cent speech that he is proud of the fact
america was not prepared when she entered
,ne war; that military preparedness is vio-
ave ave Oh american traditions. George is
plumb out and out UNIQUE: that. w..
George u.s. WV
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Memphis Commercial Ar,..l

1T is fashionable to take "wallon, ar
oreel' just as it was fashionable to take a
crack at Hoover for while, just as It was
the proper thing on the day that Garfield
ISSUED the fuel order to denounce him an a
college professor who had never driven q
coal cart or fired furnace.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Mr. Creel proud" of our blindness, our
weakness, our disastrous tardiness of
judgment and action? Is he proud that we
played into the hands of Germany?
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The BROOKLYN EAGLE (Dem.)

If Creel were as indiscreet in his action
on vital matters as in his verbiage he
would indeed be out of place in the gov
eminent service. But in practical affairs
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

The Milwaukee Sentinel (Rep.)
Adequate preparedness for war is the
sole and proper business of the United
States government, not of Mr.. George Creel,
and it Mr.. Creel expressed personal salts
faction with the result of the governments
neglect of that business he was thereby
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

The Portland (Me.) Pres. (Rep.)
Mr.. Creel may be glad we were unpre-
pared for war, but our hard pressed AL
lies are not. Mr.. Creel and his associ-
ates in Washington may be glad, but Ameri-