Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-21


the subsidized cant on both sides of
the Atlantic, England's atrocities
have made Ireland a world problem.
This struggle Of the Republicans
of Ireland excites the admiration of
all who love liberty. The eyes of
civilized mankind are turned toward
Irelan's matchless example Of cour-
age, endurance, fidelity and self
sacrifice.
Not only is the fate of Ireland an
international matter, but it is the
concern of the WORKERS of ALL
COUNTRIES and particularly of the
Labor Movement of the. United States.
Who are the victims of the outrages
in Ireland? Workers-farm work
ers and industrial workers. Why
does imperial Great Britain persecute
Ireland? For the same reason that
peoples are enslaved by all imperial
istic governments; so that the mas
ters of centralized industry and con-
centrated wealth, who control the
governments, may exploit the work
ers. Wherever there occurs a strug-
gle for freedom of mankind, it is an
effort of the workers to throw off
this exploitation and the industrial
slavery it spells. Such is the struggle
for freedom in Ireland. In whatever
country this fight for freedom occurs,
it is the immediate concern of the
workers Of every other country, be-
cause it is not possible for the work
ers Of any country to be assured of
lasting freedom until the workers of
all countries are free.
Why is Irish freedom particularly
the concern Of Labor in America ?
For three main reasons:
/. The United States is the only
nation that is in a position to bring
effective pressure to bear on Grea-
Britain to abandon it's uncivIized
conduct in Ireland.
2. The Irish people have befriended
the peole of the United States in times
of similar struggle (and any people
consists chiefly of the workers.)
3. The same imperialistic British
capitalists who are grinding down
the Irish workers into sub lection,
through alliance with the British
New York house of Morgan & Com
pany and other supposed American
money concerns, are exploiting the
workers of the United States. The
most outstanding example of this
was the active direction by the
British secret service of the cam
paign to destroy free speech N the
United States, during and since the
war.
Recently the pro-British Chicago
Tribune described as "a disgrace to
the nation" this country's treatr1ent
of soldiers MANNED in the greet war
We fear that it is not the only dis
grace lying at the door of A ''rica
and Of the countries WIh which
America allied herself in q world
war nominally to end war, 20 end
militarism, to save civilization, to en-
able small nations to determine their
own form of government and t."
make the world safe for Democracy"
To-day it is too well known by the
victims and admitted by the guilty
that those phrases constituted the
most gigantic and successf II fraud
ev er practiced, to induce mill ons Of
gullible human beings to kill each
other and leave any who escape to BE-
treated disgracefully
The zeal motive and actual effec;
of that tremendous holocaust was inn
perialistic expansion, England's COM
rercial supremacy, exploitation of
tha common people (the wockcrsl, {,
and the dangerous combination of
autocracy and concentrated wealth to
treat the industrial community as
pawns and run the world for the
benefit of that dangerous combination
English statesmen admit may,
boast) that, of all the allies, England
was the best prepared for the war;
Therefore, the British government
knew it was coming; contrary to its
professions, caused it to come; and
made, in advance, secret treaties for
England's benefit which, to our shame,
Americas representative helped her
to carry through, in spite of his own
denunciation of secret treaties.