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GERMANY AND THE IRISH
General Von R< rnhr.idl, in hi? hook entitled “Germany and the Next
War," published two years ago and widely quoted at present, says:
The furl her duty of suppi-rut g the German/ in foreign ci imtrie.- in ihe;r struggle for
.h.r i,(-.1 >v:,l t;. tin i miltonnlity is one from which, in our
direct interest' *u cannot u. imrav. The i-olaled groups of Germans nlmuid greatly bene
fit our t In preferet thc> itain their gt Is from Germany; but they me.v
tilso be to: [til ! . li’iealh wo doc.nor it' America Tlv Amen, an Germans have
formed a p. h.. .1 :.li; mec with :! e Iris!;, and, tints united. . n/titute a power in the state
with which i neminent mu>: reckon.
It has been generally known throughout the United States for several
years that certain Irish mud German organizations m tms country had
formed close associations looking to the time when Germany should be
actually at war with Great Britain. It was not quite so we!! known,
however, that these understandings were receiving encouragement
from Germanv itself. The “duty of keeping Germans in foreign coun
tries loval to then nationality” is one that will not be kindly received
by patriotic Americans. Much lias been said and written about hy
phenated Americans, and it has been generally understood that there
is no room in this broad land for such gentry, whether their origin be
German, Eish. English or what not. The remarkable thing about this
deveiopm.nt of amity between the German and Iri.-h organizations is
that it is i >t shared by the Irishmen of the old country. The Irishman
at home, who i? the one most \ itally interested, appears to look at a
German alliance with different eyes than does the combative Irishman
living under the protec'ion of tm- Stars and Stripes, i he American
irishman prefers to nurse hatred ol the English government for atroci
ties committed centuries ago, "in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and
lames I. the murderous and Satanic march of Cromwell, when the
butchery of women and piking of suckling babes were the sport of hi
liberie icwng soldiery: the shipment oi boys and girls to slavery m
the Barbadoes, the pitch-cap and hangings of 1798.’ At least this r
the language employed by a committee ol Irish Nationalists of St. Lout;
who claim to represent the unanimous sentiment of the Irish residents
of that city in extending to their German fellow-townsmen “their best
washes for the victory of their people and sincere sympathy for t'nos
of their kinfolk who are bereaved by the war.
How different the sentiment in Ireland is from that quoted above
may be pleased from the fact that the Irish members of the British par
liament. representing the people of Ireland, recently met and gave to
the Brr ah government and the world their assurances of loyalty to
that cor eminent in a most demonstrative and enthusiastic manner
Furthermore, John Redmond, the acknowledged leader of Irish politi
cal thought and action, whose ability and energy are largely responsi
ble for the great reforms that have taken place in Ireland in recent
years, recently, at a meeting in Wexford in behalf ol the recruiting
movement, said:
1 w Andrew Bonar Law (the opposition leader in parliament i by gentleness
and reas .li. t pray with all u.y heart and .-out that out of this terrible war some blessed
result n ly come for Ireland, and that is, that as Irishmen go on fighting title by side.
Catholic.- i.v Pretest ants, and North of Ireland Irishmen by South of Ireland irishm-n.
it may prove to be a sign of the future unity of our Irish nation. German domination
would mean the less of all the liberties we have won. I will put it elite i la.nl), at
General Botha (the South African premier did in his speech. Are you fur Britain and
her colonic-, or are you on the side of Germany I Believe me. we cannot remain aloof.
The war has come upon us and we must make our eh .ice. The only choice r.t honor, of
safty and of statesmanship is to defend the empire’s liberties against their declared enemy.
Now, the probabilities are that John Redmond and his associates j
more nearly voice the sentiments of the Irish people than does tne St.
Louis committee. But that is not the point that is of interest to Ameri
cans particularly, it is the fact that the St. Louis committee violates
both the letter and the spirit of American neutrality, against which
President Wilson has so earnestly warned the American people. It is j
acts such as this that form the basis of the belief of the German mili
tarist author that the Amencan-Germans and Irish have formed a
political alliance which “may be useful to us politically, as we discover
in America.” ._
DUMDUM BULLETS—AND OTHER THINGS
When Kaiser W ilhelm protested to President W'llson that the British
army was using dumdum bullets it seems that he was, inadvertently,
perhaps, stepping on the corns of Uncle Sam, who appears to have been
an earnest and ardent advocate of their use at The Hague conference
of 1899, and again at the second conference of 1907. Captain Cro
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H, DONNELLEY; discovery, otter
zier, for the United States, presented the following argument against
the rule prohibiting the use of dumdums:
First, that it forbade the use of expanding bullets, notwithstanding the possibility
that they might be made to expand in sue!1 regular manner as to assume simply the
form i f a larger caliber which properly it might be necessary to take advantage of. it it
should in the future be found desirable to adopt a musket of very much smaller caliber
than any then in use. Second, that by thus prohibiting what might be the most humane
method of increasing the shocking power of a bullet and limiting the prohibition to ex
panding and flattening bullets, i: might lead to the adoption of one of much more cruel
character than that prohibited. Third, that it condemned by designed implication, with
out even the introduction of any evidence against it, the use of a bullet actually em
ployed by the army of a civilized nation.
The English delegate. Sir John Ardagh, was the only supporter of
Captain Crozier’s position, and he is quoted as follows:
It has been proven in our petty wars in India that a man perf. rated five times by
these (Kiiglbh Fee-Me! ford > bullet* wa** still able to walk a considerable distance to an
F.ngli.-h hospital to have his wounds dressed. It was proven recently that the large nia
u rity of the Dervishes who were able to save themselves bv flight had been wounded by
small Fnglish bullet.-, whereas the Remington and Marti ni of the Iv/vptian army sufficed
to disable. It was necessary to find more efficient means and to meet this necessity in
India, the projectile known under the name of dumdums was made in the arsenal of
that name near Calcutta.
It appears that Uncle Sam found himself m the Philippines in the
same predicament as the English in India—the enemy merely receiving
scratches from his high-power rifle firing small bullets, while his own
soldiers were maimed or killed by similar wounds from a weapon of
larger caliber. The American soldier was put out of action while the
.-avage was in a position to still inflict further injury.
In the present European war there would seem to be no particular
reason for anyone to be at all squeamish about the use of prohibited,
weapons. So many things so much more barbarous are happening that
it seems childish to make a fuss about dumdum bullets.
A few years ago, when the American Indians were on the warpath,
they would display their savage instincts by murdering innocent men '
women and children, and the whole world would be shocked and call
for the extermination of the savages. But that was the aborigine’s
method of warfare - to exterminate his enemy and wantonly destroy
his possessions. This plan seems to have been followed in the recent ]
warfare m Europe, and English newspapers are quoting no less an
authority for this savagery than the late Prince Bismarck, who is said
to have advised the ravaging of the enemy’s country and the killing
of all male inhabitants, “leaving the women with nothing but their j
eyes with which to weep,” the idea being to make war so hideous that
the inhabitants of the invaded country would call for peace. Bismarck 1
may or may not have been responsible for this devilish advice. But
the fact remains that unfortified towns have been bombarded by land,
sea and air, without warning, and defenseless men, women and children ;
have been massacred in their beds, and others maimed. It is no pallia
tion of these lapses into barbarism to say that all the belligerent nations
are charged with their commission. Warfare is itself barbarous, and
brings out all the latent savage instincts of man. Why quibble about
(he form this savagery assumes—whether in the form of dumdum bul
lets, bombs dropped from airships upon defenseless towns, or the bom
barding ley warships of peaceful health resorts?
That must have been a tremendous shock, to the inhabitants of the
“tight little isle” when they awakened to the fact that an enemy’s shell? |
were rattling about their ears. It had been many years since a hostile
shot had found a billet on English shores, and to the seif-assured Eng
lishman it must have presaged the end of all things mundane. It i?
not surprising to learn that the recruiting officer was a busy man the
day following the daring raid of the German cruisers.
A great deal of rot was published during the recent political cam
paign about demanding for Alaska ' a full territorial form of govern
ment.” Those newspapers which were loudest m voicing this demand
will now relegate such buncombe to the rear and forget it. It had no
foundation whatever, and was merely a politician’s trick of creating an
issue. The fact of the matter is that Alaska has quite enough home
rule of the kind already._
It is a pity to deprive our readers of the pleasure of following the
movements of .Alaska’s governor; but the telegraph is weighted down j
with more important subjects. And besides, we will learn all about
him when the mail arrives—and that will be soon enough.
UNCLE DAN PHILOSOPHIZES
ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE
There has been a great (lea! said and
written about woman suffrage. All have a
right to their own opinions in regard to
woman’s rights. I know not what ethers
may do, bui as for me, I will vote for
women to hold state and government office
if I have the opportunity so to do. There
arc many clever men in office—and there
are many women just as capable of adniili
isfering the affairs of the people as men
can be, if they have the opportunity to
show their ability to do so. There is a
great, force of character in some of both
sexes, and in the two sexes some have no
force of character at all, and it is not rea
sonable to suppose I hat men can outdo or
ouipit woman in everything. When they
think so they are deceiving themselves;
they are not deceiving the women. The
circumstance which I am going to relate
took place at Crippersville, on the Chicago
& Lake Shore railroad. A man had com
mitted a crime which shocked the com
munity, and twenty men held council and
agreed to go to the jail and take the man
out and make an example of him, regardless
of law and order. They went to the jail.
The marshal being absent, they demanded
I that the jail door be opened by the'mar
shal’s wife. She told them should could not
or would not open the door in her bus
band’s absence. They said if she did not j
open the door they would break it down.
She tried to reason with them to wait until
her hu.'band returned, and things would be
made satisfactory. They told her they
would not wait. She told them she did not
want the door broken in. and getting the
keys, opened the door for them, and as soon
as the last man passed the doorway she
sprang the door to and captured the twenty
lawless men who were to take the law in
their own hands. I met one of these men
some years before this occurrence. I never
saw him but that time that I know of. It
cost this man S800. The rest I don’t know
how much talent they had to pay for to got
out of the scrape, probably not less for each
one.
I have yet to see the first man that cart
outwit twenty women in a group, and if
the warring nations in Europe had 20,000
women such as this one I speak of at the
head of their respective governments there
wouldn’t be any war, for they are as a sex
too humane to have war. They don't want
their sons, brothers, brothers-in-law and
husbands killed. Women like good dogs,
but don’t like dogs of war.
And I am in favor of women holding the
reins of government. I believe that ’most
everybody knows that women are clever
writers and composers of poetry those that
follow along that channel. One of the world’s
noted hymns, “Nearer. My God, to Thee.”
was composed by a little delicate woman.
I have just now forgotten her name, but
it can be found in the book, “Footsteps to
Christ.” And she wrote one poem which
classed her among the best poets of her
time. She died young and before her death
she knew not thr merits of her hymn, but
since her death it has sung itself around
the world a half dozen times. Which of us
can hear this sung without coming into the
realization of the Infinite Spirit, God? And
where can the man he found, no matter
how much of a skeptic he is. or how much
he talks infidelity who, when he sees death
staring him in the face, will not come into
line and sing with the others. “Nearer, My
God, to Thee” And why shouldn't he do
so? Can he see any other redress or chan
nel that will lead him right ? Sure he can
not. But hr looks toward his Create,r and a
future of eternal life. The real man never
dies. The body goes back to Adam’s ma
terial and the real person shoots from this
life like an arrow out of a bow to regions
unknown. When we read and think about
the Titanic, sunk to a fathomless abyss, we
then think about the good God above us.
but not so much as those 1,600 precious
souls left out on the great ship, with the
band of marching martyrs on the third
deck wading through water to their knees.
They knew their life on earth was done.
They knew their light must soon go out.
But the light of God shone in their hearts.
They believed that God would be with
them during time without end. At least
they showed it by their courage and bravery.
They knew that all the powers of earth
could not help them then; they knew there
was only one channel for them, and trial
was toward God. And they became recon
ciled to their fate as the band marched and
«ang "Nearer. My God, to Thee.” The
great ship’s survivors out in the dark
ocean, far enough so the lifeboats would
not l>e swamped or drawn under by suction
when the great ship was sinking, slowly but
surely. 100 feet of her step heavenwards,
over 700 fete of her hull ar.d bow darting
toward a watery grave, wher*- \ > * human
aid will ever reach her the ship that will
never return. She lies 400 fathoms in th°
bottom of the Atlantic, in a silent grave
unknown But the berg will have no ter
ror.- for those precious souls; they can 1 >ok
upon the berg as a grain of sand, for God
in IIis gl ry will know them. “From dust
thou art. to du.-t returneth” this was not
spoken of the soul. Let us consider a mo
mem. We kn w we are here for some
pur; It is not b\ hat 1 tv
here. The human mind, that 1 jfty thing
tolls it to us.
Better than v id is the human mind.
That in the realm or hooks can find
\ treasure -it; pa-oenv \1MraI1an or.
The liv«.f the fi: i at and g>d of \ ore.
t in* sages” lure, the poets’ ray.
I'lie klory -•!' -!■ 11-h1111• parsed away
The w rid'- gi'e;i! d’arria will tint - unfold
\nd Meld ic a pb t-uiv better titan gold.
Pome 'ay. ‘T will not believe what l
cannot understand and explain." If so, then
they will not believe in heat, light, elec
tricity. sound, gravitation, digestion, affin
i y. or anything else they don't understand.
We shr.ul 1 not ask for an explanation < f
spiritual tlungs, for there is not one thing
in the material universe that any human
being understands and can explain how.
why and what it is. So everything in the
spirit world is equally mysterious to man.
We know but cannot explain the facts that
wind Hows and the spirit renews the heart ;
that water sathlies bodily thirst ; tha Christ
satisfies spiritual thirst; that heat, light
and electrc:,y are mysterious, but realities.
Wh '!i all i' well with us we are liable to
f. rget our being, but when we see great
danger staring us in the face, then we do
not I -r tract of our Creator, and when we
consider that death is no more mysterious
than birth, then we know there must ’ e
an Infinite Spirit that rules all things in
the universe the sun. moon, stars, and the
revolution of earth, and the waters carried (
into the clouds, only to come back in a fruit
ful spray or little raindrops, so vegetation
will thrive and grow. For it is G«» l’s will
for it is good. So it is in Gods nulky wa;.'
everything mysterious to us, and the un
seen is far greater than the seen.
Lire. I know not what Hi • : an.
Put know that thou am! I mi i pa: t.
And when or how or where wv rnet
I own n> rim is a 'c ri t yet.
! ife. v.v’vc tmon long together.
Through ph-asmt and through cloudy
weather.
■ tis hard to part when friends are dear;
Perhaps it e11sls a Ggli. a tear.
Tlum steal away, give little warning.
(.house thine own tunc,
say not good night.
Rut in siiiii*■ fairer clime
Rid me go:.*i morning.
Rewritten by DAN HARTNETT.
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A BABY JUST THE SAME
(By C. Edward Cone'
There’s a tiny little maiden
Who plays ’neath the >;>ruce trees slim.
By the side of a lonely cabin
On the bank of the Kuskokwim.
She is a dark skinned little elf,
And I can’t pronounce her name.
But site smiles as I stoop to kiss her
She’s a baby just the same.
Sometimes I see her playing
In dele, on the cabin’s fio r;
And .'he .-miles a sweet, shy greeting
As I pass the cabin’s door.
She has neither toy.- nor dolly,
So she plays a lonely game
With a puppy for a playmate
She’.- a baby just the same
Her face is round and dim; I 'd.
Her skin is a nut-brown hue;
Vet if you could see her smihng
I am sure you’d love her too.
Tho’ die’s dark, ami sometimes dirty,
She is surely not to blame;
Tho’ she’s but a little Indian,
She’s a baby just the same.
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