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(Conllnuod from 1'iik" 2.)
.Mian in', Ml 1M1IIIIOU. I IIOfilT iwimaiii io
were planted In Ireland, In vry turn
of llni provinces, a nil lhorofni'0 the
Irish ru en h not puro, any inure Mum
I hn rn cu nf any modern nation. Thny
tiro all mixed; tins blond Im mingled
of tlunl anil Oniil, iin wo Buy, ho muuh
ho that Iho Cluul liuU Ioiik uk btn
nbsoibod Into Ihn Irish nation. And
Ihimo mo ii, tholr uncoslors wore lomo
of llm sturdiest HiipportiU'H of lrlnh
Independence. (Initial! win of that
mock; flood wiih of that stork;
Wolfn Tone wiih of that mock; llo
bort Kininoil wiih of that mock; (un
pin nun) Mitchell wiih of that stock;
Hinllli-O'Ililon, even pni'luipH, In
IiIh case not ho purely; I'arnell wiih
of lliul Htock; (applause), There
fore, II Ih u inlHrepreHiinlullon to
mnkg It uppmii' that thoHo who lu
huhll lliul iiiiiihenst cornnr of Ire
land differ In any way from thu rent
of the pitoplo u f Irelund, except In
Ihn fact Unit thoy hold different pol
1 1 lt-i t vIowh. Thoy ure nlmply a dlf
I I'm n I polltlrul party, with different
political iwih-h, Juxt iih your Demo
r in l lei parly unit your llepubllciin
parly mlKlil dlttor. And Ihn Holld
Houlli Unit 1 huve hoard talked of
hero Ih In no wine different from IIiIh.
Thny liuvn voted politically for till)
past. In llm inonl purl. In tlm hiiiiio
way. ThuiT.foro, you can nee that
I h ho men ran put forward no Junt
claim for Holf-dolornilnutlou,
"There Ih oiiu i'Si'Hiw inlnlil ho put
fin ward: We mlKlil Im told, 'Well,
Hutu will lieu minority In Ihn whole
rouniry. Now, you run liavn no
democratic government wlihout u
minority. In no rouniry will nil the
people of Ihn country hiivu Ihn Hnme
pnllllrul opIuloiiH. Therefore, If you
wore lo have dniuorrucy in nil. you j
in iihI have it minority. Hut suppose
lliul pleu ih put forwurd. If you nil i
dial portion on, iih I told vou. you!
would have difficulty to II ml what to
fill on. berailni It would he one thing
today and another thliiK tomorrow. :
I l.uiiKliler. I Hut HiippiiHe we liikn tlm!
results of the IiihI election, rill lliul:
portion off up llii'.re, will ii soldo the
n I nor 1 1 ' problem? No; II crealeH
two minority problems. You have
here it minority of the name political
VleWH IIH tint OHIIIKO (llldlotlltlllK on
the map), mid In that portion which
w have marked orunitn the colors,
only Hhow you th- maJorltleH In I
that portion which Ih marked oraiiKol
you would have the NutlonallHt nilti-j
orlty, which will have lo be Hiihject
to thn mujorlly, a minority which Ih
relatively hlKXer. In that area thorn
urn more NatlonallHlH, relatively, to
I iilotilHtH, than I here ure ciIIoiiIkIh
relatively lo thu whole of Ireland.
Thut Ih, In that portion ytui would be
creating another minority question,
n more Intense, question, and there-
fori Vol! ran Meal II Wltm nnvnr mil fw-
ward In Rood fill th liy nnyhouy, uh u
political Holtitlou of the dltnciilty. or
hiivInK a minority Hiibjert to a ma
jority. Vou can't noire that question
with democracy. , Von mum alway
linvo. If you tiro to have any popular
rule, you iiiuhI hum a minority Hub-
Ject for the. time being to the major
ity. They have a habit of changing
from minority to majority. That U
what political purlieu do. Today the
ItepubllcntiH will be In a minority;
tomorrow they may he In a majority,
and tho tlmu after the Democrats
tony be In thu majority uguln. So,
you nee. you can't nolve that lo at
tempt to uphold the attitude of the
minority which says that the major
ity are not to rule. Ih to uphold a
principle thut Ih going to end till rule
of the people by Hie people.
Not ii Hi HkIoii" Vuoslion.
"Now. I have mild n couple of
1 1 men thnt IIiIh (iticHtlon Ih a political
ciucHtlon. You tiro told very hhIiI
uoiiHly by llrltlHh propaganda that It
In u rellKloiiH q in-Mt Ion. In mher
words, you are told that tho ban In of
division In Ireland helw i parties
Ih rellKloiiH. n lid not pollllcul. I nay
that Ih u lie, a deinoniilrahle lie!
(AnpliitiHo.) To provo to you that It
Ih false, will you not mailt mo thin.
lliul If It were n division on religious I
grounds, (hat it would he very, un
likely to have the lendora of the Ca
tholics Protestants, null to have
koiiio of the Protestant loaders Cn
HiollcH?' If IIiIh were a question of
l'mtcHtanl and Catholic, don't you
think thai the Catholic-, would
choose Catholics for their lender
and I'rolcHliintH would ehosu Prot
estants? I think you will agree
with mo that that Is n fair teat.
"Now. let u h conHlder the hlnlory
of this Republican movement. It
wiih Btnrtod llrnt by the man of that
very cornnr which today In orange.
II wan Hlnrted In tho northeast cor
ner of Ireland by Presbyterians from
Mint corner. (Applause.) Thev were
I hollo follow countrymen, with whom
thoy wore at one at tho tlmn in Ire
land, entered Washington's army.
Whon you hour of the ProtasnnU In
Washington's army, remember that
Ihoy wore Irishmen who wanted IrlHh
Independence, and It didn't matter
whether thoy were Protestants or Ca
tholic., thoy oil wantnd thnt in Ire
land, and they wore willing to give
tholr lives In fighting for It In their
now country, America. (Applause.)
Ho thoy are mnkluR a point for uh.
and not for the present Inhabitants
of the northeast corner of Ireland ,
with tholr proHiint. political views.
TIioho who drnw tho attention of the'
Americans to the fnct that Protesl
nntn fotiRht In Washington's nrmv.
thoRO Protestants Htood for the IrlHh
ropublln. Wolfo Tono was tho Unit,
the founder of IIiIh Republican move
ment.. Tllllt fliitr nf nn,.a I Annlononl
wiih choson iih ii Rnptthllcun Mug, '
trl-color, and tho orniiKo In It Ih-to
typify the me,n from tho northeast
nornor, tho Orangemen, who aro
united with thu Nationalists, green,
lo win Irish Independence. (Ap
plause.) It stnrtnd, then, this ro
od Hod Catholic movement, Htnrted
with ProteHlnntH. Ha founder wns a
ProtoHtunt; hlH comrndoB wore Prot
estants. You had Orr and McCnbe
nud Russoll and myriad names at Iho
time, thny nil Nlund out In the hls
tory of tho period.
"Eleven I'ruHhytnrlau inlnlslors
wore luuiKi'd by thu lirltlxlt for Htnnd
Iiih for Irish liidnpeiidiilicn. Hurnly
thny wnreji't haiiKed for alaiidlUK for
Catbollclly. ('time down u few yeurn
fiiither, tho next iiaino, the next tlmu
a tl Klit wiih foiiKht for IiIhIi IikIo
peudencn, an untied IlKht. IKM.'I, we
have thu mime of Robert Kinmet, an
other Protiilunt (loud applause)
a not her ProtoHluiil who, I HiipiioHe,
wuh huiiKcd for IcadliiK tho Ciilhollcn.
(l.uiiKbter and uppliiuse. ) Thut ru
mlndH me, In I bene dayN. when you
are IlKhtln for Irultind. you ure pro
Kronoh, ho hit wun linni-ed uh u
Kronrli pinlHsiiry, If you please. The
Irish men of that day worn pro
Krnnch when , they founht for Ire
land, because KliKluiid wuh IlKhtliiK
Krunce; and a few centuries earlier
tho Irishmen who were IIkIHIiik for
tho Independence of Ireland were
pro-Hpiiiilsh, Just ho Hamo uh the
Irishmen In the Inst war who foiiKhl
fur IrlHh Independcnru were Hald to
ho pro-Unriunn, or pro-HomelhlHK
elHu. (ApplutiHu.)
An Old I'lulil.
"This war of ours heKiin seven
hundred and fifty yours uko. Wo
have, hud one enemy, one IIkIiI, for
seven hundred and titty yen is; and
those who say we stubbed America In
the hack I would like them to remem
ber tliiit wo were In this purilcular
IlKht of (iiiih before Columbus wiih
horn; (applause) that we were IIkIiI
lUK that IlKht of outs befor , I think
u member of the family of lhilieur.ol
lorn Hat on liny t hi one In Prussia.
And. uh I am on that iiiichIIoii. I
might point out lo you. tkoso who
say wiih Htalilied, Ainerlcu in the hack,
that I Hi II. April. I 111 II. Ih exactly one
year before April, ID17, and that wo
foiiKht our IlKlit and were In Kuk
llsh convict Jails when you Htnrted
Into this war. and. therefore, thut
when we founht our IIkIiI. IIiIh one
battle, in u Ioiik campalKU of seven
hundred and lifly yours, we foiiKht
It at a time when you did mil believe
that profession of Hrlluln that Ilrl
t ii I ii was IlKhtliiK for any altruistic
motives; that she was IIkIiIIiik for
any country exce.pt IlKhtliiK for that
which thu Kecret treat Ioh showed Hhe
wiih IlKhtliiK for, und which the peace
that bus been slKned at PurlH hIiowh
she did not IlKht for In vuln. (Ap
pliiuse. ) We foiiKht In Dublin; und
If we hud foiiKht even utter you
came into the war it would prove
not IiIiir. We have our enemy, and
iih Ioiik uh we huvu thut enemy we
don't want any morn. ll.aiiKhier
and Applause. (Aud iih Ioiik hh wo
have that enemy, no mutter who Ih
IIkIiIIiir for her or imnlnsl her. we
will be uKulust her. (Loud appluuse;
nin p removed from alaKe. )
Aioerlin'H Iteslsiimre.
"When I think of that. I nlwnys
remember the Hpeech of the Karl of
Chulliam at Iho time, of tho IlKht of
tho Colonies for their independence,
when he excused the altitude of the
Colonies, HiiylnK. "If I were au Amer
ican, ho Ioiik an there whs a forelKn
army, a foreign aoldler. In my coun
try. I would never lay down my
arniH; Never! Never! Never!' (Ap
plnuse.) Many of you have mad
that Hpeech. and many of you felt
that a Americana ha spoke truly of
you. that If foreign army wan here
on your Rhore you would never lay
down your a run: Never) Never!
Never! (Applause.) And I nak you
to consider this, and Hiippose that
after a tfhntiHand yenra of freedom a
foreign foe worn to come In here
and doHtroy your clvlllxiitlon. or at
tempt to destroy' It. and enforce his
will with a Huperlor army to youra
for tho time belnx; do you think
that If for eovon hundred and fifty
yenra you contested or were conlesl
InK hlH rlnhl. that If George Wash
ington and .lelTerson and his com-
radi'H had not won their IlKht (up-
piuiiHt ) had not won their IlKht.
but had been hanged, drawn and
quarlered and burned in quicklime
by llrllaln. and the next generation
produced new Wnshlnglons and new.
JelTersonH. iih 1 am nine In thin coun
try It would produce the.in; had they,
too. HUfTered the fate of the llrst. and
had JofTerson and Washlngtons
foiiKiil again In the next generation.
iih they would in every rouniry whore
good red blood Hows In Iih Inhabit
ants; had they. too. shared Iho fate
of those that had preceded them, and
If at the beginning of this war Kiik
land was trcathiR your countrv. sub
jecting it to all the misrule. 'w hich
wiih audi at tho time of '76 that Jef
ferson coiiHldered it. and his com
radnH considered It, n Justification
for throwing olT llrltuln'a rule for
ever; do you think that vou would
have Rone lo IlKht under England's
IliiK, that you would be deceived by
Knglund's hypocrisy about democ
racy, making the world Bate for
democracy? (Applause.) It Ih not
ho many years ago that Kngland
showed her anxiety about dumocracy
and about the freedom of small peo
ple by robbing tho Boor republics
of tholr freedom to mako, uh I heard
an American any (applause) to
mnko, ns I heard an American say.
the world afo for diamonds. (Ap
plause and laughter.)
"If thoeo wore tho circumstances
nt tho beginning of thin war, would
you have said to the British Imperial
power that was putting Its herd upon
your neck, would you say, I go and
holp yon analnst tho forces that are
attacking you, nnd then, when I have
helped you and saved you I will put
down my neck in order thut you mnv
drive your heel more Urmly into it
whon you are safe again?' (Laugh
ter nnd npplnuo.) I don't think there
Is any Amorlcnn hero who would
forget that tholr Hrst duty was to
Arnorlcn ns long ns a foreign soldier
(appluuse) n foreign Holdler wns
upon their soil; nnd Americans
would not forgot Hint If there was a
blow to be struck for freedom the
first country to whom thev owed It
it duty to strike for lis liberty was
uieir own country. I have heard
Americana say they are, 100 per cent
Americans; I have heard them stiv
that they are Americans all the time!
Why should it be a crime for Irish
men to say thnt thoy are Irishmen
first, Irishmen last, and Irlshmwi all
tho time? (Appluuse.) ,
"I have drifted Into this question
of thu war; I might uh well llnlsb
It before I go buck to the succession
of ProtoHluiil lenders. In Ireland
there were Irishmen who held that
creed of 100 per cent Irishmen; men
who said. 'Kngland will not deceive
uh;' men who said, 'Wu know Kng
IuiiiI'h history, we know Hint she Iiiih
never yet fought a IlKht for freedom
except when the liberty of peoples
that she wanted to free wiih going to
break her commercial rivals and
give her greater Hiipremiicy, when
the llberly of the people she was go
ing lo free meant thut she wiih going
to huvo plunder out of the war.' I
ask you, point to any war that llrl
laln has been In that Hhe Iiiih not got
plunder out of It. (Applause.)
"Ungliiiiil'H history, to those who
know It and we in Ireland know
It lo our coal- those who know Kng
liind's history nnd when 1 talk of
Kngland. now, mind, I urn not anim
ated with any halo for the English
people; I think the English people
have a right to rule in their own
country, und If thny contained them
hoIvuh lo ruling their own country
they would be iih good iih uny other
people (applause); I have nothing to
nay to thn lliltlsh democracy, except
this, that I bey say I heir country Ih
ii democratic country, a country In
which government Is bused upon thn
will of the people; If that be ho, they
are responsible iih Ioiik uh they live
for any power, tlie.y aro roHpoiiHlhlo
for the misdoings of the government
that they have put III power. (Ap
plause.) It Ih wllh the government
of England ns it Iiiih been for con-
liirluH past that wn have, the quar
rel. Once England ceases lo do III
Justice to Ireland, wn ure ready to
forget (ho past. (Applause.) Hut
Ho Ioiik uh England Is guilty of Ini
quity In Ireland, was shall bate Itrl-
tuln'H Iniquity and we shall hate the.
Instruments of 1'iut Iniquity. (Ap
pluiiHO. I Hut llrilaln's history Iiiih
been this: Klie lias today sided with
A to beat II and get Home of the pos
sessions of II. aud tomorrow Hhe bus
Joined wllh II to rob her previous
partner. A. und gel the possessions
of A. nnd Hhe robs them botll in turn.
(Appluuse.) That lias been llrltuln's
history.
Hemps of l'uMr.
"Of the sanctity of trout les in the
mouth of the representatives of the
nations, there wiih noun iih promising
uh pel lldlous Albion. The sanctity of
treaties, indeed! Irishmen can point
to scraps of paper, and It wuh not un
! Imperial Gorman government, or any
other government, that tore up these
i scraps of paper: It wiih the Hrltlsli
government, tho Hrltlsli Imperial
government, and Lloyd (ieorRo. who
Ih their spokesman. himself tore
them up. (Appluuse.) We. partic
ularly those of uh who have any re
lation lo limerick, remember Lim
erick, remember Limerick und Saxon
trejichery, because Limerick was a
pluce at which a treaty was signed,
a treaty signed by Drltftlii's repre
sentatives and violated before the Ink
with which it was written was dry.
And we had luter treaties. In 1783.
the year that Kngland recognised
tho Independence of America, she
also, by a solemn act of her Parlia
ment, recognised the sovereign In
dependence, of the Colonial Parlia
ment of Ireland and duclnred thut
henceforward these are the words
Henceforward, forever, the sov
ereignty of the Irish Parliament
should be unquestioned and unques
tionable, and Pitt set about tearing
up that treaty within eighteen years,
when England could afford to tear It
up. And so wo have not forgotten,
were not misled, particularly be
cause, as I hare said, Asqtiilh him
self, and Lloyd George and their
companions had even ut that time,
within a few days before, violated
solemn pledges that were given to
tho people's representatives, the rep
resentatives of the IrlHh people, and
ho we would be fools If we were ta
ken 4n by England's altruistic pro
fessions at thut time. We knew thut
It wns not for the sake of IlelKtum.
ir the sake of Krance, or any other
country, but for her own splflsh sake,
that England gutcred the war: and
wo (applause) we, the Irish people,
of whom It was said that they fought
every mil Ion's battles but their own,
we thought sotuo of us, anyhow
thought that the time was come
when nt least we should light for
once our own battles. We (lid not
want to be Instruments to be used
by Kngland. and then, when she had
used uh. that she should fling ns
uslde.
"I'lifortunntely, there were people
In Ireland who. In tho generosity of
their hearts -and It Is hard to blame
them. It is hard to Und fault, even,
wllh their want of judgment, be
cause the cry of liberty Is a cry which
has a potent spell over tho heart of
every Irishman: for generation after
generation Irishmen have been striv
ing for thut liberty. They have soon
themselves ruthlessly crushed by a
power that they knew wns inferior
in everything but In brute force. And
the cry, 'Remember Belgium! See
Helglum!' Belgium to which some
of them, 'fugitives from British mis
rule, once fled 'See France!" ot
which Sarsfleld and his brigades went
'See them! Thoy wore your
friends! See them invaded now!
Will you not go and help them?' And
the Irish people, I would like you
to consider how generous they were,
these Irishmen who have lot their
hearts, as I have often put it. their
hearts run away with their heads,
they forgot tholr own countrv. thoy
forgot that they wore fighting for a
power that was commlttlug a crime
against their own land. even, at the
tlmo- lrlshmen and women wore
shot down In the streets of Dublin,
three days beforo the declaration of
war, by British soldiers they were
to forget that tho power. under whose
banner they wore going to serve was
in power that wns committing on
. thomsijlves exactly tl fce things
which they rep esented
O e r m a n y ns committing
1 against Belgium, nnd in their own
case there could be no doubt about
It, they could see It with their own
eyes; thoy knew from their history
that time after time In the past it
bad beeu done, by England. They
forgot that; they forgot thut tho flag
under which they were going to
serve was a flag every shred of
which wus Hlulned with the blood or
th noblest of their own ruco. They
forgot all that. Aye, they forgot
more, or, rather, they put aside ull
that: they put aside more; thoy put
aside tho knowledge thut they must
huvu hud, that even then Kngland
was laying thn lines to cheat them
at the end. What wuh the meunlug
of Kuil lirey's stalernont. which wiih
Unshod out through the whole world.
'Ireland Is the one bright spot?' Thu
meaning of that Htntement was that
they were even starting then to mis
represent Ireland. Thny wanted to
make It appear that those men who
went Into England's armies out of
tho generosity of their hearts, thut
thuKe men were lighting, not for Bel
glum, not for Krunce, but were IlKht
liiK becuusu they loved Kngland.
(laughter), IlKhtliiK because at last
thoy were HutlHlled with Hrltlsli rule.
Oh. they begun lo exalt und to glout,
mid they said, 'Oh, there will be no
Homo Rule. quitHlloii any more. It Ih
settled forever. The Irish ure at lust
usslmllaled. The IrlHh nation in
dead at last. We have won this I
IlKht of seven hundred and fifty
yearn. The Irish In the eyen of the,
world will no longer be dlstiiiKuish
able from thn English. Why have
lliny Kdlie nut Ml IIKIII. Uliuer uur ilea, .
Who will believe them If they say
thut they were oppressed by the na
tion which t tin t Hug wuh the symbol
of?' Oh. who would believe them?
Do you think. If we could hear
throughout the world today, we
would be laughed at If we said we;
went Into that tight wllh all these
grievances against Ktiglund. that we
went in under her banner and forgot
them ull. Wliul would you Hay? You
would say, "They munt have been
very IlKht grievances, indeed, if you
were able to forget them so eusy.'
And ho England wuh beginning then
to misrepresent them. If they hud
eyes open they could see It.
Ireland mill I'olumL
"England bus wiped out. In seven
ty yenrs. four and u half millions of
that race. She bus cut down In sev
enty yenrs a population of eight and
a half millions to four and a half.
The part of Poland that was under
the Czar has doubled its population
In these seventy yenrs. The purt of
Polund thut wus under the Emperor
of Austria bus doubled Its pallia
tion and increased Its prosperity in
theso seventy yeurn. The purt of
Poland that was under the Kaiser,
oven and you know how the
Kaiser's rule of Pojund was written
up during the. wur Poland under
the KalKor Iiiih doubled its popula
tion In these seventy vears. Hed Ire-
land been ruled as well as any part
of Poland, we would today not be a
nation of four und a hulf millions;
wo. too. would huve doubled our pop
ulation; wn would have hud today a
population of eighteen millions. (Ap
plause.) Yes. wiped out ruthlessly,
when the world wns not looking:
wiped out four nnd a half millions
of people. Ah. 'Tls she did It! Don't
think it is a question of race suicide,
or anything of that sort in Ireland.
(Laughter and appluuse,) Scienti
fically estimated, there Is but one
people in the whole world who have
a higher birthrate than ours, and
thut people Is the people of Holland;
and today, for some, time past, we
have had the highest, in fuct. the
only Increasing birthrate well, the
highest; in fact. I think It Is the only
Increasing birthrate in Europe. So
that, you see, thai not merely should
we have, doubled our population, as
Poland did. these countries In sub
jection, but thnt we should have done
much more. If Knglund's rule was
only us good In Ireland a the Czar's
rule was In Polund, or the Emperor
of Austria's rule was In Polund, or
the Kaiser's rule wus in Poland.
Ireland's Volunteers. '
"And, hence, you see thut we are
a nation of only four und a half mil
lions. We huve more than our share
of old people, because wo have the
old people for a populutlon of almost
double the size. We had, lis so esti
mated by Britain, available for mil
itary service, in Ireland of course,
when they wanted to misrepresent
Ireland thoy put It much more -but
when their own estimate wuh given
they estimated thn total men avail
able in Irelund. wllh the same meth
ods followed as lu Knglund. would
only be four hundred thousand. Of
these four hundred thousand, this na
tion thut was supposed to be Hellish
during the war contributed two hun
dred and lifty thousand volunteers.
(Applause.) Two hundred and fifty
thousand volunteers from a nation
that was destroyed by British rule.
And the aim of Britain was to take
all the young men and to kill them
all off and thus end the Irish ques
tion forever. But you probably don't
appreciate what two hundred and
fifty thousand men. at first sight,
out of four und a half millions,
means. You would, to be as gener
ous uh Irelund, huve to give six mil
lion volunteers. Aye, and you would
have to have given them from 1914
to 19 IS; you would have to huve
given six million volunteers to equal
In proportion what Irelund gave in
that wur against all the odds, every
thing that would make her selfish.
Then this nation that you accuse of
selfishness in the wur. If you were
to lose as many soldiers as many of
her youth that she can so. even,
spare If you were to have given as
many of these to Flanders fields
and to Mesopotamia and all the rest
of it. you would be mourning today,
nut seventy-five thousand, you would
be mourning three million in pro
portion to the . number Ireland
mourns Aye. und she has not the
satisfaction of knowing that if she
wanted not to be cheated she could
not be cheated; you have that satis
faction; you know that If you want
ed It you can see that they shall not
be cheated out of their blood, of your
seventy-five thousand. Ireland has
lost her sons knowing that she will
be cheated out of their blood. Insofar
as they fought In the hope that liber
ty would be established everywhere
Thev fought believing they were
fighting for the sake of Btnall na
tions, believing that they were help
ing these, countries; aye. and believ
ing, too and since I have come here
to America I have met Americans
whd'are as much 100 per cent Amer
icans as any Americans, who have
said. 'We fought in that fight, we
have Irish blood in our veins, and
when we were engaging in that fight
we thought, as did the men who went
from Ireland to tight in that war. we
thought that we were fighting for
Ireland amongst the other nations
that we sought to free.' (Applause.)
But Ireland bus lost her men. her
youth, she has lost them. In men, as
I said, that would correspond to
three million from yon. and she has
no satisfaction In feeling that she
will not be cheated out of their
blood. As a matter of fact. Ireland
mourns these men today, knowlug
that they have the tragedy of all
tragedies in the war. Every one of
them, as she feels, has laid down his
life on Flanders' fields, felt as their
life blood flowed, felt again what
Sarsfleld felt, when he. on the same
field ot Flanders, saw his blood flow
ing for France, said. 'Oh. if it were
only for Ireland.' (Applause.) And
these men, we know as they died,
as they saw their life blood flow.
Ah, many of them didn't die before
they recognized that England hud
again fooled them. They did not die
before they recognized that it was
not for the principle of freedom
everywhere they were, fighting, but
thut their blood would be used to
strengthen the power thut had been
crushing and strangling their own
motherland for seven hundred and
fifty years. Ah, that has been the
tragedy of the war!
"The tragedy of the war, as far
as Ireland has been concerned, i
not these men who went out and
challenged England's power Easter
week in Dublin. It was not thn
men who were taken out and shot
by Britain, thought they had fought
as soldiers of war; they were tak
en out by Britain and shot, as
Britain would have shot Washing
ton and the rest if she had been
able to beat them. (Applause.)
Tho tragedy of the war has not
been their death, for they, when
they saw their life blood flowing,
could with pride look at it and
say. 'Oh. thank Cod. this Is for
Ireland.' (Applause.) They ronre-
sented the men. who. as I have
said, did not allow their hearts to
run awuy with their heads. They
wore men who said, 'How can this
be a war for the freedom of thn
peoples? If Kngland wore anxi
ous to give freedom to all peoples,
there are many millions she could
give freedom to and to give them
their freedom she had to conquer
no Kaiser, no Emperor, no Sultan.'
She could give them their free
dom with a single stroke of her
monarch's pen, and if she were
unwilling to give them their free
dom was she not there and then
proven to he a hypocrite? And as
such (Applause) -as such, those
of us who took the other line of
action, those ot us who said. 'Aye,
if this Is a war for liberty, we
can be in It. We have a nation
to free right here in Ireland. (Ap
plause.) We don't want If we
want to fight for small nations,
we don't need to cross to Plun
der's fields; we have thn only
small nation in Europe here in our
own home, to whom we owe onr
first duty; we have that here to
fight for ourselves, and If .It be
imperialism we want to fight
against, if it be imperialism we
want to destroy, oh. we don't
need to go across the Channel to
find imperialism that should be
destroyed; we have imperialism
here, we have British imperialism,
British to use the word that was
used during the war British
Prussianism , which would put any
Prussianism to shame. We have
that (Applause): we have that to
fight against. And we knew, we
fought, we at least could not be
cheated out of our blood.' Every
man who fought felt, knew that
really, in his own heart, that hi
was fighting for liberty subjec
tively, but he knew ns a nutter
of fact that he was fighting for
j freedom, fighting against imperial
Ism, fighting for those principles
which must appeal to every man
I who Iris anything like love of
country in his heart. And so
they fought their fight, and the
result of their fight has beeu this,
that England no longer can pose
as the champion of small peo
ples. We have torn that hypo
critical mask off her imperial
face. (Applause.)
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