The Irish standard., 1919-08-23
animated HUB slLH0UETTEs
sir EDWARD cARson's 1.-TWO FACES"

made union" the foundation for an
other union-the most natural, lasting
and mutually beneficial union in all
the world was begun-a union found
ed on mutual confidence.
knew then that both the Swedish
and the Norwegian politicians lied
when they sent out their personal
pleas for better world understanding
Of their respective cases." Norway
must have blushed when she talked
of oppression" Sweden must have
gone into hiding when she talked
about the dangers" to the safety of
the peninsula" (Just as England
does now.) There was nothing in all
that talk. l then lived in Americas
miniature Scandinavia" and wrote
and talked about the true causes,
which naturally made me enemies
from both factions.
When politically fed nationalistic
patriotism" is reused, sordid business
schemes often become moral issues"
We have very small chances for sane
deliberations with those whose phil
osophy of life is nourished on inflam-
matory headlines soaked in "picrid
acid'-garnished with malicious hy-
pocrisy." Civic reason is drug on
the market, today, because directed
by the "battleship Ram-jawed" man.
Most of the political symphonies"
which today Charms" our ears, are
lbut the assembled echoes from all that
we'll planned and directed "chin mu-
sic" our philosophical tutors so gently
whispered into our ears when the
human tiger" had to be amused To
the thinking man there isea little diff
ference whether our daily conclusions
are derived from reason governed by
cur animal procliHities, whether
our conclusions are derived from
reason governed by our higher
intuition from which we learn
the ways of the prey hunting lower in
stincts in man. For five years our
human sympathies have been "dices''
in the hands Of Mephistophelean
sophistry. This "cynic" is now reap
ing whirlwind. However, there is a
law that governs actions, both mate
rial and human; the same law. also
govern reaction. This, our marvel
Gus sociological chemists" seem to
have forgotten. Sir Edward Carson
don't seem willing to find out which
method is best to use, in sending
messages to the Irish people, with
some gentle carrier pigeons" or in
the quicker "14-inch she'll"
The moral value" between the
methods shall later be determined by
the force and direction his future "po-
litical trade winds indicate.
Sir Edward will leave London for
Belfast, let US say, the 9th. in order
to be ready for the finale in this
islands drama of seven centuries.
The question between medley of
music" the human heart delights in,
and the clash and crash of booming
cannons and bursting of shells will
then be discussed in the Toryfied cir
cles. It will either be reconstruction
or unspeakable destruction. The in.
dications are pointing to the latter
alternative. Sir Edward is stanch
believer in the League to Enforce
Peace Sir Plunkett, when in Bos-
ton spoke very eloquently of his new
political "alloy," with which he hoped
to make the impossible a reality.
Those who heard him pronounced
him political jazz and tool for
the Tories. This leaves us three al
ternatives with settings fitting to
each. We. have the date set when
the finale" will be opened up by the
leader OF the Orangemen against the
leader Of the Slim Feiners.
The first is backed by a small but
powerful minority which the British
laboring classes also are fighting,
tooth to nail. The De Valera faction
will receive calls" from the Nation
alists, and SO will Carson's faction.
This group can offer nothing to either
faction and must therefore choose be-
tween the devil and the deep sea. :"
Thus on the 2Sth when the first sun
rays shed their light upon the Irish
pastures the "sun within millions of
human breasts will set behind the po.
litical sky line" The ITO be or not to
be" will spread q blanket of gloom over
/, the island from Belfast to Queens
town. from Dublin to the deep, spa
cious but deserted harbor and littoral
Of Galway. VIII 1t mean peace or
war? England's Tory press is pam
icky. The entire labor press is grow