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‘ Che Soellcfamemcm,
Telmlary 5, 1916,
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sATi'RD.u'. FEBRUARY 5519,16.
Willlun Pitt brought Ibolll the Union
with England by the most colossal and
ennrneleea bribery and corruption over
day, in addlilon lo lheir'nlhry or i:wl)>
a year, and in a hundred other ways
English money ll spent lavishly. No
such deiisslng Ind disgusting lpectscle
nu‘ been neen in lreland lor more than
I hundred years. ":‘ vyy”
A-Rd yet the reeipienti or-t ll blood
tired 0! Icnllslnl the
Q to the country Which
‘ motives in preaching and Dratiising the
principle or lrlah Natihnslityfor which
they have stood all thei 2
men. by their llrmnene‘and.devotlon to
t r e -
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2.
ice the ilne as paid agents of Germany.
in n cshle published in the New York
Alvin-(can inst Suridiyr he said:
lrlsh lelders had tl0Ol'i9!l with
one would think that the‘moet no
rrupt man in o “Irish
in imadon and than u
go to the trout to be slaughtered for
'l-:nglaud. Vlhavhe knows that no German
money oould In its way in'to lrelnnd
e
’ 1oo,ol
...;.. but ‘no ‘lies luipudenuy because
that is what his English pnymaslers
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st
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Not a penny ot Gernnn money. or its
equivalent in English money, has been
expended in the Intirscrliltins. or any
day coinesx ’
llsli money ,to last him tor the balance
bf his rotten lilt. ‘
COLONEL HOUSE A GREAT DIPLOMAT.
it colonel llouae does not succeed in
' peace n Europe and
Woodrow wilson to
woundea
‘llnnnclal
give
henrtn nlvrsyn‘reoulro nonie
helm. ' ’ " ,
The-colonel made more than one
iourney tliatvwlll be histnrlo llelore he
went on his mysterious mission to the
belligerent cspitain or Europe, but the
trips to Princeton and Baltimore, when
the record comes to
American peap
success in these delicate negotiations
indicated him with unorring certainty,
he one mnnwho couldjinsyko a clean
the aorkgho wna'sent to do in
like the late lnmented slllxrweed, the
colonorn‘ motto is "Ailditlnu.’Dli'lsIon
and silence," or at least onethird
lt. ‘
oioners career given the lie
international arialrs, i
a louliylnt and si7e%ulstor,vInd
his success in helping to make a Presl-
dcnt demonstrates ,lhat he learned to
some purpose. And h was titted to
deal with Prime lslinleters, Foreign sec-
rciaries and ‘Chancellors by his niaster-
v. ly conduct ,nf.,the;nost delicate nego-
, .
WllSUN’S DISKNGENUOUS SPEECHES.
T s o zit President Wilson’!
tour, which is lehturzd in ths New York
daily pnpern not great popular nucccso,
I'hen'In reality it is aiallure. Ind
d to he no in some or the local
pslpnhly dishonest. without
ons.ol7.lsct, to secure hlr rs
n . r
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The speaking tour has ior its main
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war with Japan will be very much less
ened, because Japan’: only other poe-
elbla Ally against America would be
Rn an Russia in crippled now.
Call! during his present term
unless his hlnd should be forced by In-
other massacre which would Irouse the
ople :
in nor Mexico, nor
JInIII's Ally, England, that ltlr. “'ILso
has in mind. but Germlhy. lie is seek-
ing s pretest tor hresltlnl on relations
ad- -
with Germany. not because’ or an Amor-
icau grievance, but to help England in
the present war. l-lls demand that Ger-
many shell admit that the sinking ot
the Lustznnio, a vessel loaded with mu-
He hopes to mnnutncture a war stars
with Germany by’ this speaking tour
and through that war score to accomp-
lish these three things:
First-Tn lllllsme popular reeling
against Germany. so that he may over-
ride congress, which in no longer under
r in an appeal to
one. and it is
Suitond-T scount Ind render
hlrmless the “Petki End Boy’ lcundzl
when it is published, an it nuroly will
be during the Presidential campaign, it
not sooner. ,
r o the i1e0ple‘!orget
England‘: outrsgeous, conilnuad and
increasingly hagrnnt violations or in-
ternational In! in the seizures of Amer-
cnn cargoes destined to neutral coun-
tries . and the wholesale opening of
American msiln, no that he may be tree
lo help England still further by break-
ir relations a and ear
n of terror in the
United states which would ,:mount to
martial law. ,
With all these things accomplished
Woodrow Wilson thinks he could be re
elected President of the United States.
But he is the only man in Washington
who thinks so, Ind there Ire very few
who believe he will succeed in scconlp<
ilshlng nny‘oun or the three.
I-lie methods Ire dlsln enuoua.
r says I positive hing: he mil
e has not Ibo courage
h a spin
canaract, he said, it his words meant
Ian and umdno. ’ Many or them (rank-
ly admitted it. Yet there was not the
slightest foundation for the statement.
he
was la downright rnleehood. 1
Power named in prl ate we. England,
on r wllsnu t t or what
he wanted sir Edward. Grey publicly
denied thnt England had nude ll-ly re-
ely the same thing
he or his very first speeches in this
tour and tor the same purpose or de-
cehlng the people. in his Pittsburgh
speech on Jlnunry 29v he laid:
c ndle.
could nee the desnatchen i read
every hour ol the day. they would know
ho llllcult it has been rcr me to main-
taln peace.
The world in on
ly to drop enyw e
what is the lnature or the deepntches
that Mr. wllnon r ads at v r h
or the day that make it dlmculttor him
Lain peace? Tilers are no. auca
there is nothing in the
news published in the daily papers that
yuntlhee each an assertion. and the Pub-
‘ moot provocative
Notes to Germany are certainly pence
rul and conciliatory in tone. The de
mnnds he malrsn in those Notes us an-
reaeonablo and made in order to help
1-:ngland., There in nothing whatever in
the controversy with Germany that
makes it dlnlcult tor President Wilson
to keep the peace, and his aatemeni
implies‘ that he alone has the power to
make war, as it then were no connrenn.
Thntasthlemant in disingenuous and un-
trutbtul. :
l-lla Islertlon in Milwaukee about tor-
fire. ' Sparks sreilkav
re.
a
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injury.
made a wanton and uatruthtul stuck
on them in his last Message to Can-
es . e
wnoae relatives and teliowcountrymon
Vere dghtlng for the Union In
relntlvus were dgnlinx to disrupt it, Ind
while his father was nelloiing [rain I
Georgi: pulpit in defence of human
e only danger or lntury
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nlaver .
-neuti'Ilily'vlh.ila his friends were
clamoring tor war on the side or Eng-
land Ind he himself was working to
Provide I pretext for tint Al‘.
ell. the men wholnhe
genuous way in which Mr. Wilson
at it:
we cannot altogether ignore the
is our essential blood relation-
ships. and at the outset or this war it
did look as it there were a division at
domestic sentiment whlc might lead
on to some errors or ludgment and some
at on.
hellers that danger
ger wss exaggerated
learned long ago, and many o(
corroborate me by your experience. that
it is not the men who are doing In
tllking llwnys who represent the real
sentiments of the 'atlon.
it ninorlginnl charge had been non-
early nude Irld he had discovered ll
e were I lrsnk and manly
ID
r way.
instead ol that he now says that what
he pretended to Congress was eal
danger he always knew to he exagger-
tetl and skea in cows t
the men who have eaten
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There in not a statement’ or real
"Prev-Iredness" issue,
a means ol
now and it
Presidential year that he is ranking the
tour and “Prepnredness,"
about which he is not 'a competent su-
thor-lty The only competent authority
on that subject in the General stud or
the ar
at an lll-lntormed clvllinn.
assertion that there lo danger or this
country being drawn into the European
war means only that he in trying to
moire n pretext‘ tor waewlth Germhny.
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n
THE CDUFlSE.0F lHE WAR.
est war incident and one of
arrival
l
lonlng control or
has‘ apecla
an no unable to
week, marked by the recovery of im-
l‘ I
mann made salnn. so that there has
been a derangement o( the Anglo
French plans tor their intended Spring
there come reports at increasing mortal-
IIY unions ‘ the British Ind I-‘reniill
wounded, owing to the insnmclency or
the ilrst hid in til! trenches. The bam-
bardmenta or the Belgian coast line by
tile British midi no impression and ens
tailed the lose or three British venseln.
On the Eu! Fl’0lIl'ihQl'B'iIBB been I
continued period at nulet, but rumor.
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manner demhndsd by British iireeatars,
Sweden would be M onne driven to take
Bess-
Ir:biI Ind the Ukraine, but for up i,
destination wnn not known. ln'the in-
terlln the Russian drive into the Buko-
vlua appears to he indefinitely suspend
passes (or such, is contemplating draw-
in: out or the war if possible means
can be round.
The Russian <'Il.Il))aign in the Cauca-
nus sllordn endlena opportunities to the
graduates from the Class or Casuintry
and zilondaclty in the schools or
Journalism that are springing up every-
re
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the glaze or Erzerllunl se t f the
lie factories of London and Rome. The
uhllshed atorica lack “body on the
other hand, the absence or'nll newti tor
I nulnber of days irorn Kut-el-Amara
and the Erllish relief expedition point
to ths possibility of the surrender nl
' the
d entail to British
A report from Te
erhn In)‘: that the Persian Goverhmen
had decided on tsising is permanent
force 0! Elly battalions In order to he
Lille (0 l‘0lIKi’0l the new independent
action of thn'lrih9s:nen, and take away
Russian hurl British pretexts tar
keeping bodies of troops ns guards for
their hiirnerous Consulates Ind Dthcr
post: in Pcr ll. .
The Slalnnics Izueltinn is becoming I
re?
country is being
away by the uiratlcal
acting as the catspaws or England and
Franzze derided and betrayed by those
they served.
The rebellion in chine will likely be
calling for more attention than it in re
ceiving just now. The rising in the
province or Yunnan is undoubtedly the
work or the British Indian Government
sancllnne-1 by London. France and
England have been intriguing lor V
to obtain -l looting van , '
vangtse River, and England has push-
ed - railway right up to the Burmese
trontier touching that part or china and
tried to obtain concessions to carry it
on to the city or Yunnan, lrom where it
could dominate the . vrlitlle of the
llensiso valleyi possession or
Yunnan would lurtber have the adven-
tnse, ot,turning tlieiesstern hank ‘cl
Thiliet and placing that country entire-
ly in the power ol England ‘
i
r
in ' the
Lloyd George has been ‘ ldd
- ecent' interview,
French again In . ,-
miakh up the
urea love multiplication.
Rdltlrm comes high in New York, but
V y man, woman and
child in Ixew York has the thirst or a
score ol parched camels.
George Bold! and n party at friends
xew )orl( ior California early
this week to tulle the mud
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on tho ntreetn nf dear. old Gotham
these days in hard to please.
They're reserving windows in Paris
near the Arc de Tr'orn ’
t
oi the victorious French and English.
There should he s law enacted mak-
ing it a crime to carry a concealed hy.
phen. ours on our shoulder where
the chip used to he
one would think, it he were to] rl
by the ramvin or some “ ‘E
with Angln-Slshull leanings-the latter-
(or r
avoid ed
h . mllliar
when the ring needed Y “M”
delenders.
l-lnvlns Iorgnitea or discarded the
old-time American ideals’ or llbc -
have the lmlauilerlce .0
ntlemalr
between certain people in
wanhlngton. "
Pretending to do everything I d d
ins ever>'lmd.Yi for the most "I "
poses. the good of hu -
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to mullled drum.
He hoped and prayed to sea the day
'i'len men wou
That men and discipline nlonn ,
can free our native land.
Hi: you-is lire bright with hope Ind
lore
An oderlng tree he gave,
A martyr tor the land he loved,
shut in ‘ srav .
His was no cratty statesmalfs soul
who (earn the light or day,
He Bread and dared the
worst:
Thnt was SIEII R0355! W8 .
God Rive un men with Roux‘: heart-
.outstaoken, brave and true-v
Whn‘d dare to tell the expectant crowd
Whst lrisimlen should do.
who'd dare to say to iriahmen,
“Boys. strike another gbl ;"
The dcrre ilght Ross: meant to win
‘Tin we must w u now.
Then let us rise and take a vow,
And wear in noses’. name.
By Roses’: sulrerlngs, Russa's deeds,
E Roads’: deathlese lame, V
rhat we will give our lives to bring
The battle to ' one,‘ ', . “
And drive the Saxon it-om our land
aeturniug hloao ior blows.
and grant tho hour will not pass by
Unkh
mo
lT‘S GUNS instead of words.
e-co...
GREYS QUIBBLES IRKS
EVEN PRO-BRITISH “SUN”
The wretched qulhhllng oi’ sir Ed-
ln the
via rd tirey ornlan
a lot at generalities that had no besr- -
ins on the cane a n . I
The dishonesty or Grey’: reply ll "1"
New rorlr sun.
January’ :1, tell:
British nrilclal that he is indulging
in the “nlerest oulbhliug, in this
iashion: ,
"The publication in the English new
papers or the an-idavitr or the NIco.lian'.t
nmcrluan muleteer. accusing C D18
at
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the
water
slink by sun
any nrermentn u
even clttenualion.
of the ‘slleg upon ich the Ger
an Gov nlrielli. rely,’ Ind he does all
her his Mueal. Government ‘do not
accept them as t ' hut th is 15'
merest uuihbling, whether the admiral-
iy s prepared t d‘ prove the will?
team‘ accusation or not. i
“If Sir Edward Grey is in I Dosillhi:
in show that the ‘round robin‘ anidavl
may have, or the w
New that his gui has
in the nllldavlts adopted
been $5 n
by the cernu
cnvcrnmenl. ‘ ,