The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
FOR IRISH RECRUITS
My Appeal and My Hopes of
 Getting Men.
(By Colonel Arthur Lynch. M.P)


 Colonel Lynch, who fought against the British in the South African War, is now again in the British Army and raising Irishmen to fight on the Brit ish side.)
 meet young Irishman in the country; he is ot military age, of magnificent proportions, active as a cat, and strong as a bull. Moreover he is sober-the young Irishmen of today are temperate. He is the na- tive material of fine soldier.
 I ask him to enlist. He looks me up and down, and instead of the beam of friendship which I had hop ed to find, I see an angry glare in his eye. He invites me to go to a place that is warmer even than the Vest ern front, and he says this with a flash of his eye, a set of his whole frame, and a defiant toss of his head, all of which assure me more ana more that he will be a splendid sol dier.
 I endeavor to persuade him. To do so I must first ascertain what are the real motives which determine his actions, and I engage him in friend ly conversation.
 I find that, though country boy he has an astonishing acquaintance with politics, and with a certain vein of history, not always very accurate. He talks much, moreover, of the Peace Conference. of the possibilities of the ultimate defeat of the Allies of the power and efficiency of Ger many, and of the good will of that country towards Ireland.
 know nothing, I may say here, of any German plot, and I believe that the sentiment of pro-Germanism so-called, which is more or less prev a1ent in Ireland. is of superficial char acter. The average Irishman knows very little of Germany, and I am not disturbed in this opinion when I recollect the saying of a young boy of nineteen, who assured me, with an air of diplomatic profundity: we are in daily communication with the Kaiser!"
 If the Germans should prove ulti- mately victorious they will, so some of these young men believe. help Ire ldIlu u SOL up o II CC anu AANSpClINtC1Il Republic.
 Now, I am not in daily communi- cation with the Kaiser myself, but do know little of Germany. for I studied at the University of Berlin, and I imagine that if, by the impos- sible, the Germans were finally vic torious, the one thing that they would hate most in this world would be the talk of freedom of unrulv States, and the desire to set up 3 Republic, which would be constant reminder of the preposterous preten- sions of the Hohenzollern regime.
 As to the Peace Conference, which bulks largely in the programme of the more serious of the Sim Fein leaders and which is. indeed, the fla vorite plank of MT. de Valera I need only say that I also would like to see Ireland represented at the Peace Conference. But that is one of my reasons for entering upon this cam paign.
 One of the two alternatives must follow from this war Either Ger many Is going to win, and the talk of peace or of conferences is futile, or, on the other hand, the Allies may win. am confident that they will win and then I would ask my Irish friends, who Is going to help Ireland at the Peace Conference? It would be too much to expect that from John Bull.
 The Sim Fein papers spend good deal of space in slanging their old traditional friend-France. That has not made Ireland more beloved in the great French Republic. U1cle Sam add-FOR IRISH .... .... .. -. remains But to try to defeat the arms of the Allies cannot mean any thing else than to attempt to be- smirch the Stars and Stripes and to drag that glorious emblem through the mud. After that display of pol icy, or of temper, do Trishlnea expect that Uncle Sam will sit a. the con ference table with a wet towel round his head, wondering how ne can best do some good thing for these cham pions of republic and of liberIy@ ] do not think so.
 I deplore deeply the conditions which have produced this state of mind, for my own hope nAs always been that Irela-'6 might attain f1i:. measure C. lilctty, and tha., having reached that plane Ireland and Eng land should be ready mutually to ex- tend the hand of friendship, and live together in amity for the real advan- tage of both ever afterwards. I have that ideal still in view in entering upon my recruiting campaign.
 CELERY PLANTS
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