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The Irish standard., 1919-05-17
MILITARISm RUNS Rampant

ing there that will some day mean
trouble. The people are united and
there is q determination underlying
everything they do that is bound to
amount to something.
Certain to Produce Conflict.
"The abuse that the people of Ire.
land are suffering, with more Eng.
lish soldiers in the streets of her
towns and villages than there are in
France; with motor lorries and mill
tary vehicles to be seen everywhere;
deliberate attempts to frame GRIM
inal acts to be heaped on their seads,
Is certain to produce trouble sooner
or later.
1T isn't idle talk about anti-Irish
propaganda. 1t is at work every
! where. AS went from France to
England on the boat, the captain. see.
ing my American uniform, immediate
ly engaged me in conversation about
Ireland. He said very little good about
the country and great deal that was
bad. l listened for awhile, then picked
him up on several misstatements. He
saw that he was caught and quickly
asked me if l knew anything about
Ireland. 4 was born there l told
him, and with that he said, simply.
Good morning, sir and strobe quick
ly away. He had no further conver.
sation with me.
A Campaign Of Slander.
Il went down to Dublin and over
to Waterford. where had relatives.
AS an evidence of the sort of trick.
cry that is being played on the Irish,
l might cite the instance of two mur.
ders in a small town near where I
was staying.
Two policemen were killed while
on duty. The cry was Immediately
raised that the Sim Fein did it, and
they were cried up and down the
countryside as responsible for the two
murders. Yet an Investigation showed
that the older of the two men was
an active member of the Sim Fein
and the younger man was engaged to
girl in the town and was soon to
be married to her. Both were well
liked by all the people of the vicinity,
yet when they died the Sim Fein was
accused. 1t was simply part of the
propaganda.
Manufacturing Crime.
"The American stores were raided
time after time and there seemed to
be systematic scheme for looting.
The Slim Fein was accused and It was
played to the limit. A watch was
set on the place and two policemen
were caught redhanded They were
not Sim Feiners. When they were
brought up for trail, their offence was
looked upon lightly and they got out
of it.
$50 1t went through the country,
the people accused of everything in
order to create feeling Of distrust."
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17

The speaker was in the chair. The
Round Room, filled in every corner
waited breathlessly. The nation was
on the eve of great things. Nobody
knew what the future held. Not many
cared. If only Padraic Pearse were
alive-but Cathal Brugha was speak.
ing. He would ask the most faithful
priest who had ever lived in Ireland
to call blessing on the day and its
fruits.
From behind the speakers chair
Father O'F1anagan came with bowed
head to the table. For a moment
there was grateful uproar. Then the
great simple priest, seeming more
happy in this performance than in
all his triumphal, progress through
Ireland, raised his hand and crossed
himself. The room was suddenly sill
ent. 1t was as if house door had
been shut on shrill street traffic; the
vast audience blessed itself. Father
O'Flanagan implored the aid Of the
Holy Ghost-the music of the Ian
guage, the awe Of the words-some
could not even pray.
Early in the calling of the roll OF
Irish representatives., the clerks OF
the House answered the speaker with
these words when he read the name
Of Arthur Grifith. To the foreign
pressmen, the words were explained:
HE is in the grip Of the foreigner" )"
Az the roll call proceeded the words
became Q refrain:
"seamus o Leonain." "Fe Glas e
Gailiabh."
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17
THE MEN OF THEE DAHL

"Terens Mac Sibne," "Fe Glas ag
Gailiabh."
So it went on. Not even the Daily
Mail man could escape getting the
phrase by heart. Firm government"
also had its victories. The Colonial,
American and European journalists
gaped at the constant repetition. Sub
sequently, one of them said that be-
fore the roll call was read the Irish
question was mystery to him, but
"Fe Glas Gailiabh" had solved it.
"sir Edward Carson"
For a moment the seriousness of
the occasion was forgotten. Many
laughed outright. The speaker, still
reading the roll, had come upon the
name of the Ulster leader. Rather
should the people have cheered. The
provisional government of Ulster had
become the actual government Of Ire.
land. The rebellion that succeeded
had failed, that which failed had sue
ceeded. But Sir Edward Carson was
an absentee. Selfish determination
had lost syllable. Undoubtedly the
people should have cheered.
"Now We Therefore"
The reading of the declaration of
independence was the greatest Incl
dent of the session. As Eamonn Dug
gan read 1t out the great gathering
in the hall stood motionless, many
with their lips parted, breathing heav-
fly, many with their eyes closed. Az
the powerful words went on the ex.
element grew intense.
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17

In years few we will see
In letters bold DER land and sea,
The watchword of Humanity
Englands destruction.
Ireland, republic brave:
The home of neither serf nor slave,
Her tri-colof erect shall wave
Ireland triumphant.
India, long land of pain,
Shall herald through her vast domain
"Our rebellion was not in vain"-
India victorious.
Africas sons long held in thrall
Will boldly rally to the call,
Down with the foe of nations small"
Africa the stalwart.
Australia, pearl of southern seas,
Her banner floating in the breeze,
Will watch the tyrant on her knees
Australia now noble.
Canada, star Of northern skies,
Will thunder forth to seize the prize,
Will smash forever hellish ties
Canada, the gallant.
Scotland, once the home of Bruce,
Her cursed letters will smash loose
From of her neck will cast the moose,
Scotland, long-dormant.
Gibraltar, now in pain,
Will welcome home her king of Spain
In foreign power long she's lain
Gibraltar-stolen.
No orphans cry, no widows wall
In bitter tone the world will hail
The soul of freedoms on the gale
Freedom long-sought.
England's corpse is laid to rest.
No flowers are placed upon her breast,
That land Of tyranny and lust
England accursed.
MARTIN ROWAN.
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17
BY Rev. Michael J. o'connor, Chap.
lain, 101st Regiment, 26th Division,
in the Boston Post, April 7.

1reland's towns and villages are
thick with armed soldiers and the
streets are overrun with military mo-.
tor lorries and military vehicles Of
every description; more soldiers are
to be seen in Ireland than in France,
and in the face Of it all there is q
growing spirit among the Irish people
that will some day develop into a
condition that will spell trouble.
The New ireland.
Chaplain Michael j. O'Connor, the
lighting chaplain" of the 101st Regi-
ment, who arrived on the Mt. Vernon
on Friday, with the vanguard of the
Goth Division, carrying the Croix de
Guerre for bravery in action, told of
Ireland as he found it, "the new Ire.
land" that the chaplain found on a
recent visit.
The Sim Fein is the only course
open, and it is the right course, Father
O'Connor emphatically declared.
Anti-lrish propaganda is at work
on every side to make the Irish peo-
pie appear in bad light and on every
hand it is encountered, but Chaplain
O'Connor, selected for bit of it on
the trip from France to England, re-.
fused Ito be filled up," as he termed
it, and the session of propaganda
ended.
Everyone Sim Feiner.
Chaplain O'Connor had ample op.
portunity to view and to appreciate
the Ireland that he found, the same
/, Ireland that the Sim Fein is endeav.
oring to place on an equality with
the other nations of the world, but a
different Ireland from that of Father
O'Connor's boyhood days.
1T is not the same Ireland" said
Father O'Connor, as he discussed his
trip on the upper deck of the Mt.
Vernon, raising his voice occasionally
as the din of the screaming whistles
on all sides of the big transport made
ordinary conversation impossible.
There is a peculiar atmosphere
throughout Ireland that attracts you
and then grips you. You can't avoid
it; it just compels you to be Sim
Fein. The Ireland of today is more
Irish than ever. From the smallest
child to the grownups the spirit is the
same. The little children even say
their prayers in the old Gaelic.
II remember my amazement when
| my brothers. five-year-old child came
to me for her evening prayers and
kneeling devoutly, the little one
raised her voice to God, in the words
of the new nation-the Gaelic. That
opened my eyes and 1t impressed on
me the new spirit of the nation.
IA visit to Ireland will convince
anyone that there is fire shoulder.
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17
IRELAND'S PRESIDENT SPEAKS
ON IRISH "SELF-DETERMINA

right in Ireland. lrishmen have every
right to be free. These are the rights
they are now asserting with deter
mination and with confidence. They
know that Justice is on their side,
and that justice will triumph in the
end. English militarism, English
navalism, will in their hour also dis
appear.
To say that the security" of
England demands that Ireland be
held in slavery-that Irishmen be de-
MED their just rights-is a doctrine
no less foul and selfish than false.
1t is as If the capitalist asserted that
his security" required that the
worker be deprived of his political
rights-that the worker be held as a
slave.
II this security" constitute a
right, then since free America is
also potential danger to England,
why not claim that the freedom of
America be revoked? America is a
far more powerful and dangerous RI
val than Ireland could ever be. Why
not, on the basis Of this security
claim the French channel ports
France faced England once; she may
do so again. The truth in all this is,
of course, that it is not security" but
domination" that is meant.
Necessary Dependence"
Ireland's necessary dependence
on England is fable. England likes
to play Lady Bountiful each morning
with part of what she has robbed
from us over night. From what
have read in the labor press, labor is
not unacquainted with this trick in
; another connection.
| l. feel it is not necessary to point
this parallel; neither shall give
statistics, though they are available in
abundance and conclusive. A priori
common sense is enough to convince
us that if the connection with England
was so advantageous to Ireland as all
that, Ireland herself would not be
quite so anxious to have done with it.
nor would England be so desperately
anxious to maintain it.
Sometimes it is said that we must
be kept in tutelage, that 1rishmen are
not fit to govern themselves. This is
a deliberate insult, such as only a
SNUG Englishman of the Globe OF
Morning Post class would be capable
of. The record of our people wher
ever and whenever they have been
free from England's deliberate repres
sion is more than an answer.
"LawIess" Irish.
We are told, too, that the Irish are
lawless. It is hard for an Irishman
to be patient when such a charge is
hurled at him by an Englishman. We
are proud that we are "lawless." When
law and wrong go hand in hand IN
impious alliance, claw" must take the
! consequences. In Ireland we uphold
right against the claw" "Law" is held
in just contempt in Ireland, for in Ire
land law is not a system of justice
but more often system for the ,un
scrupulous repression of the rights Of
: the majority in favor of the ascen
dancy interest of small minority
This Justice" it is which DEGREES that
certain acts lead to the dungeon OF
the gallows when committed by one
class and when committed by another
! to Office and the woolsack.
An honest man is not likely to have
much respect for a law that is dealt
out by such Judges" as he who re
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17
(From The London Herald.) }

(FrOm The London Herald.)
(This 10 Mr.. De valera's first pro.
nounesment since his escape from
prison. Our own belief about the
rights Of ireland is summed up In the
one idea, "seif.determinatio on"-for
which 90 many EnolIshmen and Irish
mon have died. On this central point
no democrat can differ from Mr.. De
Valera. On the details Of hls article It
70 not necessary to agree. We do not
necessarily agree on them ourselves.
We publish his article exactly AZ he
wrote Il, In vIndication Of the freedom
Of the press-Editor Heraid.)
England took Ireland by force. BY
force it is that England has managed
to retain Ireland. English rule has
never been accepted by the mass of
the Irish people. The Irish democracy
has at all times offered to England's
usurpation the most determined resis-
tance-almost uniformly the maximum
resistance of which it was capable.
It was because Mr.. Redwood, since
the war began, was acting in way
that was seriously compromising this
important point in the Irish position
that the Irish people rejected him.
The vital necessity of maintaining this
position clear before the world will
best explain, to those who wish to
understand it, Ireland's action during
the war.
This necessity was also the prime
motive behind the resistance to con-
scription.
There is, then, no question of Irish
acceptance of or acquiescence in Eng
lish rule.
There Is No Contract.
Neither is there any question of
contract. There has been no contract
between the two peoples Schoolboys
should know of the fraud called the
Union" Assuming the schoolboy's s
knowledge of history, only knave
would imagine that that was a con-
tract.
To use the words "secede" and
divorce" in relation to Irelands at
titude is to use words that seem es-
pecially chosen to give false notion
of the position. Were a man to alb.
duct woman by force and keep her
by force, it would be just as accurate
to describe her struggle to get free
by saying she was seeking divorce.
There is no real parallel between our
case and that of the Southern States
of America. We have refused to rec.
ognize the so-called Union" from the
very beginning have never rec.
ognized the validity of this so-called
contract, and, besides, we are dis
tinct nation. If this parallel be at all
applicable, it is with reference to the
proposal to cut of from Ireland a por.
tion Of historically Irish soil-the
northeast corner of Ulster.
What nonsense to talk about "loyal.
ty" and "d1sloyalty'' in the way these
words are used when speaking Of
Ireland. 1rishmen have been in the
mass, perhaps, the most loyal people
on earth to the only country that has
a claim on their loyalty-that is, Ire
land.
Loyalty to a foreign government
when that means disloyalty to ones
own nation, is not loyalty; it is com
monty called treachery. Loyal Irish
men are they who rebel against the
alien government that would keel
their country in slavery.
The English government has nc
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17
No Bargaining
With Britain

The denial by Mr.. George Gavan
Duffy, envoy at Paris from the Re.
public of Ireland, that there was any
foundation for the rumors that Ire
land was going to abandon the gov.
ernment she has established. was go.
ing to yield up the sovereignty which
she has ever clung to, and make deal
with England whereby she would be
included in the British empire in re-
turn for some sort of parliament"
or home rule comes in good time.
The reports that such a deal was
imminent could have come only from
one source-the English government,
What was the object in putting them
out? Was 1t the hope of creating a
new division in Ireland, which would
make up for the growing amity be.
tween the Irishmen of the south and
the Protestant Irishmen of the north?
England may have hoped that some
would want "home rule" and some
would not, and thereby a split would
be created. If this was her expecta.
ton, it has proved groundless. No
body wants home rule.
Again, England may have meant to
try, as she has tried in other hours
of difficulty once more to buy off the
Irish people, and thus to keep them
quiet until times should be safer for
her. In any case, it has been appar.
ent all along that there was no chance
of her beguiling the people of Ire
land.
AS concerns the statement attrib.
uted to Mr.. Duffy, in which he was
said to have declared that seventy.
five per cent of the people of Ireland
had voted for home rule, it is not
quite clear whether the whole state.
ment was an invention, or whether
as seems more probable, the phrase
"home rule was substituted to ere
public" The version of the dispatch
which appeared in Washington news.
paper, contains the word republic
in place of "home rule" and If Mr..
Duffy gave out the statement at all,
republic" was the word he used.
There was no reason to expect that
the delegates at Paris. were going to
make compromise whereby the alien
| invaders of Ireland would be per.
mitted to maintain any control in
that country. 1t is an excellent thing,
however, to have from them definite
condemnation of the enemy reports
that deal of some sort was intended
We have repeatedly pointed out that
there is only one possible course to
victory, as there was only one course
through which Justice could be done to
the people of Ireland and to the mem.
ory Of the men who died for the re-
public of Ireland.
That is to insist straightforwardly
on recognition for the government es
tablished and elected by the Irish peo
pie. That the delegates in Paris were
unequivocally supporting this claim
there was no room for, question; we
have now from them definite state
ment with which to confront those
who would have it believed that the
case was otherwise-The Irish Press
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17

woman twelve months in the second
division, and even hoped in passing
sentence that the murder would not
find his detention too uncomfortable
(all because this criminal happened
to have assisted in recruiting): when
a concert singer is condemned to two
years with hard labor for singing q
patriotic song nigh a hundred years
old; for law that forcibly feeds un.
to death; for law that keeps hand
cuffed in Ireland for several weeks on
end men whose only crime is that they
will not allow patriotism to be degrad-
cd in their own persons by submitting
to be treated as criminals; for law
that permits the kidnapping of inno-
cent children that they may be spied
upon by the agents of Dublin Castle,
or tortured into giving evidence the
Castle requires; for the law that al
lows the dungeon to be used as polit-
ical argument and enables ministers
to lie with impunity when their vic
tins are under lock and key and q
carefully adjusted gag is upon their
lips.
Mr.. Secretary Short.
If were to charge Mr.. Secretary
Shortt publicly with (for defniteness
let us say having relations with the
devil, and had him locked up until
he was able to prove himself not
guilty, and whilst he were thus in
prison and carefully isolated from the
world, if were to lie, caddishly lie
about him, and insinuate that his ST.
lence and his refusal to engage on the
task (set because impossible) of prov
ing his innocence before my mock
tribunal was due to consciousness
of guilt, l wonder would Mr. Short
think highly of my claw" or my "jus-
tice." I wonder how Mr.. Shortt's
friends would feel if Mr.. Short were
kept in prison until he died there.
Law! Yes, thank God, when that
is law we in Ireland are lawless. We
do not fear to beard infamy because
it is in the saddle. nor do we condone
it because it's name is British Justice.
We have a righteous contempt for
your British Law and for some of the
miserable creatures that you hire to
administer it.
We Ourselves.
Slim Fein means literally I'VE our
Selves" It was chosen as motto of
self-reliance-the motto of those who
long ago said it was vain to hope for
a change of heart in the governments
of England but who turned towards
and had full confidence in, the
strength and determination of the peo.
pie of Ireland. :s4si i.5.i e.
Those who pose as experts now in
rendering this motto as ourselves
alone," twisting it to mean a doctrine
of selfish isolation, are precisely those
who some time ago would deem it a
mark of inferiority to profess any &C.
quaintance whatever with the Irish
language.
So far are we from desiring isola.
tion that our whole struggle is to get
Ireland out of the cage in which the
selfish statecraft of England would
confine her-to get Ireland back into
the free world from which she was
| rava pod-fO pof hor rooooni1od nc an
Independent unit in a world league
of nations, SO that she might freely
give of her gifts to, and receive ir
return of their gifts from, her sister
nations the world over.
The Irish standard., 1919-05-17
The Death of England

In years a few we will see
In letters bold DER land and sea,
The watchword of Humanity
England's destruction.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-10-26

The average height Of a willow
tree In the Alps IN Two inches.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-10-26
MORAL DEGENERACY
ENGULFING VIENNA
HppshurK Capital Gay as Ever; Pco-
pie Trying NssidiousiY To For
get War.

REULN oct 2r Vienna, ever
gay oy s now more superac.u.ly
say than ever. owing to the .lucIt
traders who have proNtod BY the war
ana who now are spending their all
gotten gains. writes newspaper cor
rctpuuiuH' from the Austrian cap.-
TAI Vienna. says one ~ these writ
crs Is dying 10 murin" He de
EcrihcS the people as starved and
morally degenerate. Describing
the syruus iu tur dance halis and pa
Nli1na and gambling rooms. me
writer says that nearly az the people
demonstrate a desperate demand for
youth and enjoyment and adds .hI'
"thIs wckly whIrl ut enjoyment
bordering ON olf.dosirucuou pro-
ducc- trlghtml effect on the sober
minded people OF the city,
Public amusoments are proRied
In tho pleasure park and Schpen-
hruun. where are given playa for
childron. fireworks, alpine dances,
Tyrolosc clog dances by Borchtesga-
den peasants. acts from Iphegenle
and band concerts
one writer says that all OF this
str Wing for amusement is only a
mask tor pcrpleSlty ana inability -
return Ia older and shner life or ev-
idcncc Of heollossncss and lndiffer-
cu,c.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-10-26
The REQ Speed Wagon

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1t is speedy, sturdy, economical.
1t will solve your motor truck
problem.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-24
Il LIVES LOST
ON BURNING
STEAMER
S. s. Virginia" Burns to
Waters Edge in Ches-
apeake Bay.

BALTIMORE. Mr.. May 24.-The
steamer Virginis. Virginia. queen OF
the Chesapeake owned By the Baltl-
more Steam Packet Co. cold BAY Line)
crowded TO capacity with relatives or
returning soldiers on Their way TO
Newport News. Va. TO greet their
homecoming kin. was burned 10 the
waters edge of Smiths Point at the
mouth of the Potomac river at an ear
" hour this morning.
Whsther there has been loss OF life
Will not he definitely known until a
complete list of passengers number
ing between $50 and e0o can be
checked uo. Several reports. placing
he casualties az from one TO eleven
persons, have been received mere but
none OF these reports have as yet been
confirmed. A report that three life
boats from the Virginia capsized also
lacks confirmation.
Men, women and Oh ldren ieaped oV-
erboard from the burning vessel and
we're rescued by sailors OF the L. :.