The Irish standard., 1919-05-24

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reseatation Of lrelaads
heroic Struggle for Freedom
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what you said was what you
meant
The President said: You are quite
right Mr.. Walsh
America Saved England.
"a war for the survival of the Brit
ish Empire would never have been
= popular in America, and until Amer
lea got into that conflict there was
only one issue-that issue (WHICH
EMP1RE?' That was the only issue.
For two years we Americans could
! stand back, it was none of our at
fair. Then England sent her call to
America. Balfour Englarfd's most gen.
tlemanly gentleman, the bloody Bal
four of Ireland, came to this country.
{ 1 wish that some of my ancestors
could have seen him. / wish that all
my Irish people could have seen this
naughty diplomat standing shaking
hands with the grandson of John Nit
chell, John Mitchell the Mayor of New
( York, and Balfour soluting that man.
Why did Balfour come? England was
fighting with her back to the wall.
General Joffre told us France was bled
white. Go back over the daily papers,
and you will read where nearer and
nearer advanced the German hordes,
until it seemed hopeless situation.
1t was then General Haig sent the
message. Balfour came and went be-
fore both houses. We were in that
war to see that no empire survived.
1t was only then, and in due considera-
tion that the President saw the sur
vival of the German Empire would
mean ruin to democratic America, and
that it was necessary for us to take
up arms. Why, England lost her war!
We alone have won, and now we are
confronted with the ironical spectacle
of defeated England debating to the
people of victorious America.
America Made It New War.
"Has America lost the war? What
war? Not surely the war of the En-
tente Allies, for that war was lost by
the Entente Allies by their own ad-
mission when the appeal came to
America: Come over and help us lest
we perish!' The war that concerns us
is the war that America declared upon
the Imperial German government,
when we associated ourselves with the
Entente Allies, but most specifically
did not become one of their number.
Americas war with the German I'm
perial government had but one thing
in common with the war that was
waged by the Entente and that was
the common enemy.
1--WE did not enter the war because
Belgium's neutrality had been violat-
ed; we were nearly three years too
late for that We did not enter the
war to avenge the Lusitania; we were
two years too late for that. We went
4 to war with Germany because by her
ruthless submarine warfare Germany
had declared war against mankind. 1t
was to safeguard the rights of human
ity that America entered the war, and
unless as the fruit of the war the
rights of mankind are everywhere
safeguarded America shall have lost
the war no matter how splendid vic
tory American arms may have
achieved for the Entente Allies.
Must Not Forget Ideals.
sIn words that brook no discussion
as to this import, the President of the
United States, the loyalty acknowl.
edged spokesman for the people of this
nation set before the world of today
I and the world of all tomorrows| that
history shall speak to, the avowed
war aims of this country. Must they
be rehearsed? Are all the voices OF
those who preached the great crusade
of War Morale so quickly dead, are
all the editorials, all the columns OF
news, posters, placards, all the miles
of moving picture reels, all the Red
Cross appeals, all the, liberty loan slo
gans so quickly forgot? Yet forgotten
they cannot be, for their sanction and
their acceptance are written in the
blood of the thousands of American
boys who went to their death gladly
because Of them, because they be
Z lieved- them, and in believing, consid
cred life well lived, II life ended ir
achieving them. We living may try
to forget, BUT THE DEAD CAN
NOT FORGET. We crown their names
! with laurel, but we tarnish their aims
with lie! Unless out Of the victory
that has come to our American arms
Tho wnr1d IA MADE SAFE FOR