s. I have assigned myself merely to point out that such a struggle is inevitable, and to indicate what I believe to be the supreme factors in the conflict, and how one

it upon isolated expeditions and never once to push home the assault on the one point that was obviously the key to the enemy's whole position. At any period during that last three centuries, with Ireland gone, England was, if not actually at the mercy

-day. The British Empire is the great illusion. Resembling in much the Holy Roman Empire it is not British, it is not an Empire, and assuredly it is not holy. It lives on the life-blood and sufferings of some, on the suffrance and mutual jealousy of others, and on the fixed illusion of all. Rather is it a great Mendicity Institute. England now, instead of "robbing from Pole to Pole," as John Mitchel once defined her activities, goes begging from Pole to Pole that all and every one shall give her a helping hand to keep the plunder. Chins, Goorkhas, Sikhs, Malays, Irish, Chinese, South African Dutch, Australasians, Maoris, Canadians, Japanese, and finally "Uncle Sam"-these are the main components that when

find the British Indians resident in Canada, to take but one instance, petitioning the Imperial Gov

land unless he had forty pounds and had come direct from India,-a physical impossibility, since no direct communication exists. But they wen

inating laws are existing against us in foreign countries like the United States of

ip, and that, far from being one, it is more divided racially against itself than are even opposing

000,000 of white men in the German Empire the vast majority of them of German blood. And while the latter form a disciplined, self-contained, and self-supporting an

count on Ireland, that most prolific source of supply of her army, navy, and industrial efforts during the last century, while she is faced with a declining birth-rate, due largely, be it noted, to the diminished influx of the Ir

more manageable, and yet just sufficiently starvable to supply her with a goodly surplus for army, navy, and industrial expansion in Great Britain. Now that the Irish are gone with a vengeance it is being per

often raised the white flag and surrendered, without necessity, sometimes to a few Boers, and they may do the same to a German invading force. Free Trade which "benefits the consumer" and the capitalist has, unfortunately, through the destruction of our agriculture and th

ship construction in the world, it takes blood as well as iron to cement empires. Battleships may become so much floa

the Great Dominions for men and officers to man their local fleets. As the vital resources of England become more and more inadequate to meet the menace of German naval and moral strength, she turns her eyes to Ireland, and we learn from t

Ireland was likened to a "serpent whose head must be crushed beneath the heel," the Daily Telegraph

e for the sick and palsied, or of those incapable of work through age or youth. They want the workers and they get them. Those who have left the United Kingdom during 1912 are not the scum of

decay, becomes each year more accentuated and doubtless accounts for the strenu

low England is sinking, and how vitally necessary it is for her to redress the balance of her own excess of "militants" over males by

females, 32,871,456; total, 64,92

Britai

; females, 18,626,793; total, 36,07

ales, 2,251,842; total, 4,759,

n, 40,834,714. Excess

es tends yearly to increase. We read in every fresh return of emigration that it is men and not women who are leaving England and Scotland. That Irish emigration, appalling as

ales, 2,195,147; total, 4,381

e in no unhealthier sex plight than Scotland or England is in. It is to get this surplus of stou

ertisement from the Cork Evening Ec

ches of the Army to the Recruiting Officer at Victoria Barracks, Cork, will be p

l and takes nothing. Men, mind, food and money-all these she has offered through the centuries, and it is upon these and the unrestricted drain of these four things from that rich mine of human fertility and wealth that the British Empire has been founded

ational need. Were the present Liberal Government thrown out to-morrow their Unionist successors would hasten to bind Ireland (and Ameri

and one American, to show that Home Rule has

Rule Bill, Earl Grey, the late Governor-Gen

agree that it is most important and in the highest interests of the empire that there should be the friendliest feelings of generous affection and goodwill, not only between the self-governing Dominions and the Motherland, but also between America and England.... I need

of American Imperial interests. It is that of Mr. Roosevel

other one thing by this unhappy feud that has raged for centuries, and the settlement of which, I most earnestly hope, and believe, will be a powerful contribution t

a people who having suffered so much and so valiantly resisted for so many centuries were now to be won to their

upon me to hear leader after leader of the Parliamentary Party declaring without shame that Home Rule when it is won

d Blunt's noble protest in his recent work, The Land War in Ireland, would sta

. Redmond had to choose not Ireland, but England for its delivery. Speaking at St. Patrick's Day dinner in London on March 17th, 1913, Mr. Redmond

attempt to interfere in any Imperial question will be by our representatives on the floor of the Imperial Parliament in Westminster doing everything in our power to increase the strength and the glory of what will then be ou

n such terms, would be a curse and a crime. Thierry, the French historian, is a truer exponent of the passionate aspirations of the Irish heart than an

e of men has invariably desired that which their conquerors did not desire, detested that which they liked, and liked that which they detested ... This indomitable persistency, this faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of lost liberty,

e they have forgotten, but barter its life-blood for a concession that could be won to-morrow by half that blood if shed at

stitute for his country's freedom, joins the British army or navy is a voluntary traitor to his country. Almost everything that Irelan

r independence is illusory unless she have free outlet to the sea. But what of Ireland? With not one, but forty ports, the finest in all Western Europe, they lie idle and empty. With over 1,000 m

t years ago) than the "friendship" of England. We have survived the open hate, the prolonged enslavement, the secular robbery of England and now the England smiles and offers us with one hand Home Rule to take it away with the oth

out saying; but that we should willingly throw ourselves into the fray on the wr

d subdued the unvarying will applied to one unvarying purpose of those who, by dint of that quality, have elsewhere subjugated the universe. We who have

has ever produced, the late Mr. Gladstone, compared the union between Great Britain and Ireland

rs have ploughed upon her back and made long furrows," is in truth dead, is indeed a corpse. No; there is a juster analogy, and one given us by the only Englishman who was in every clime, and in eve