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In these turbulent tirui’s uli is
grist to the puHicil" mi'l. The
other day cablegrams told tl>’
story of Irishmen attacking Am
erican sailors in Cork's own town.
Some frills were added to adorn the
tale. How the sailors were walk
ing with their Irish sweethearts and
the jealous irishmen attacked them
with savagery.
It was y iite a story. Now it, is
subject to doubt in detail. Irish
papers reaching America tell a
different story.
This is the how of it as toid by
eye witnesses.
Th Soiit lTntiers were holding a
parade in rebel Cork. They had
the republican Mag oi Orange and
Green and white living above them.
They had hands playing Garryowen
and the Dot al Ahoo and the Con
naught Man's [tumble, fife and
dram and drum and fife coming
down Patrick Street with the boys
marching in tine to signify the de
sire of Ireland a nation.
In Cork at tins time were quut
a number of British Blue Jackets,
soldiers and marines and they
with a iiattio'.isni of their own at
tacked the paraders, reasonably and
pleasantly enough. It was a fine
shindy and the man that was sett
ing blue molded for want of a beat
in. Glory h-“ to God. got all he want
ed. Just when the fun was at its
height and the lieks were flying fast
siud furious, along comes a lot ol
Uncle Sant's tars and after study
ing the situation a while they came
to the conclusion that their place
was with the boys loo. and in they
sailed with lots of steerage way and
boarding pikes unslung. But they
did not attack the Irish. They sail
ed in on the uniformed :nen and
bucked police, soldiers, sailors and
marines taking the part of the
Sein Finn lads.
That’s the story as told in the
Cork papers. There was nothing
at all about the wicked Irish feel
ing sore over the Jackies getting an
armful of female Irish wisdom
while they, the Irishmen .were go
ing without.
Indeed no. It wasn’t any such
r.hing. That was a figment o: the
imagination of some scribe whe
thought the story as told by hin:
would have a greater moral effect
in free America than the story as ii
actually happened. It was damn
.the irish anyhow.
v This little incident is interesting
It thp straw
nvtPOIV
that shows how the wind blows. It
tells its own story and is full of
moral as an egg is full of meat. It
in a little incident of this kind the
veracity of the correspondent is tr
be shown to be shot full of holts
where in thunder do we get or at
when matters of greater moment
are cabled over the wire.
Not that this story is the rf">a'l
thing it appears to ne. It wanted
in realilv to show how little grati
tude the Ir-Wh hail for America
which had harbored so mativ of its
sons and which had proved so wel
come a field to fam’ne weary, rack
rented children of Erin.
America has done we'l by the
Irish. It has in truth opened its
arms to receive the sons o' the old
son by the thoasand. It has mane
her griets many a time its own. Its
purse has been loosened up many
a time and oft to help the suffering
It has aided and abetted the undy
ing struggle for political freedom
that had been the Irishman’s for
many a long decade. It hated the
shock of famine, it staunched the
wounds of poverty and made wel
come those who were outlawed in
Ireland.
Now by the Soul of Man the Irish
are not ungratefu. They too have
done well by America. They have
fought her battles, they have given
lluir lives and their laber and their
hands at: ■! their brains to the up
building of this great republic.
They have made America theii
home u ! their nation and the>
base been and still are today the
greatest chi mpiens of real Amer
ican freedom.
To tin Irishman, as a type, free
dom is part of his life blood. There
are here and there some who are
spawn of the soil, but they are
no* now and they never were the
type that bend the pregnant hinges
of the knee that truth may follow
fawning The Irish dream ol' free
dom may he more spiritual than
material: more of the mind than
of the body, but it is a dream that
never dies out and will never die
on* until the reality is achieved.
Sso. everyone knows this even it
some Irishmen's ideal rises no
higher than a job on the police
lorn or king snipe on a railroad.
And withal that they love America
and have made American principles
of freedom and liberty their own,
along comes a spalpeen of a news
paper reporter horn without doubt
in sonic cockney dive and nc sends
this news over the wire to show
what a black hearted, ungrateful,
evil minded tare are these bloody
Hirish that attack with stick and
stone, the sons of America that are
fighting America’s battles on the
sea.
Shiver our editorial timbers, it's
dollars to doughtnuts that for
every American born in that bunch
of Jackies there was one Irishman.
And likely as not when he saw his
oldtime kinsfolk attacked by the
British sailors his blood couldn't
stand it and he sailed in with or
without a shillelagh for the old
dart's sake. And why wouldn’t he?
Hadn’t he as much right to bear a
hand for the sake ot Ireland as Ire
land has a right to bear a hand
for the sake of America. Surely.
And here's hoping that whenever
and wherever this may be done,
may there be more strength to their
elbows and may their shadows.
Glory be to God. never grow less.
SOM K PSYCHOLOGY.
The country being now at war
it is right to understand that a
good many of the people have now
come directly under its influence to
a greater or lesser degree. Their
attitude is a changed one. They
are not the same cool, reasoning
beings of yesterday. They may in
deed still labor to a great extent
under the influence of the dollar
incentive, may even hold it under
an intensified form the ras'n driv
ing impulse of their activity's cut
even then it is co-related to a gen
eral impulse due in a great meas
ure to the war spirit, to what passes
in a misunderstanding way as a
genital notion of “patriotism'.
When this condition develops
then, the country at large becomes
to a large extent susceptible to
many emotional actions which in
other times were not possible. It
removes the cooler activities due to
iraellt'-ence and reason to an outer
huJ almost unapproachable atmos
phere while men labor almost wholly
in an atmosphere of unreasoning
sentiment.
During such a condition there is
i great danger. P really amounts to
r national intoxication. And any
thug is likely to happen ethei done
by or done to those in this intoxi
cated state.
It is during such tin eg that those
who have been making the'r life’s
sole end and aim tlie accumulation
of wealth wil see greater opporutn
ities open to be availed of and they
will advantage themselves of th
national condition to do so.
Whence arises that combination
which has already disgusted Presi
dent Wilson: the apparently aston
ishing combination of business and
patriotism. profits and the prose
cution of a war for the extension
of democracy.
But. it is well to understand that
during this time, some are much
more subject to this emotional ef
fect of the war and emotional con
trol due to the war. than are others.
Those who are so to speak ballasted
by more material conditions, the
very ri< h that is to say and the
very poor are net so likely to give
way to the genera! impulsive control
of one’s emotions than are tie
great middle clas .es and those whose
condition in lile is sufiicii ntlv secure
as to remove the material respons
ibilities tor the lay’s evil from their
constant mentality.
The workers are today subject as
yesterday to a primal urge. That
urge is to prolong their existence:
to make enough to live for them
selves nnd for their families where
they have them.
So keen is the struggle and so
lately has it become intensified due
to soaring prices that this compels
them to a life which is quite a long
wavs from the intoxicating effect of
tlie war spirit.
They come under the discipline
of the machine and the still severer
discipline ot workaday drudgery in
the strugge to live.
it is for that reason that the in
difference oi the workers to the
war spirit is already exciting a largo
number of editorial writers who
never think and whose torrent ot
words is merely the garrulity of the
thoughtless
Consequently it may be safe to
say that the war spirit as evidenced
today presents three distinct strata
In modern society. There la first 1
ihe upparmost layer of the plunder
bund which merely has sought to
advantage their plundering by a
camouflage of patriotism. They are!
loud in their war talk but louder J
yet in the money-grubbing actions. !
They seek profit-bulging contracts
and they oppose any form of effort
to tax them to prosecute the war
which is so profitable to them.
There is then the second strata
the great masses of comfortably
: fixed, the well to do artisan, the
j comfortably situated farmers, bus- j
! inessn^en, bankers, professionals j
and others who mean every word
of the patriotic matter they utter;
! who are well prepared to do and
dio and to sacrifice themselves for
the country with a wonderful devo
tion because the country has done
well with them. They are most in- ■
tolerable in their views and cannot >
understand the position of those
who have throughout their lives re- ■
reived none of the material bless- a
ings from childhood to manhood 9
■ cr to old age which the middle 9
classes have received. They do not |
understand the viewpoint of the 9
drudge, because they simply never j
! drudged; they dont fathom and j j
certainly make no allowances for |
the wage slave and the hireling
because they have never yet ex
perienced such an environment or j
j if they had it was merely the
steppingstone for better things in J
their life's journey and as such i
vv 11 ItOU l
me grut'iuug luw ijiiuil
that it inflicts upon the masses who
have permanently to experience it.
A proper understanding of these
facts will bring home to us hos
tile war will hr.ve one inevitable
effect and that is widening the gulf
between those who have and those
who have not.
Actions today performed in the
turbulence of human passions which
in turn have been aroused by the
war spirit are remembered. They
will have to give an account of
themselves sooner or later, and
those who so impulsively follow
where those passions and prejudices
j and injustices load to would be
I prudent and very w ise to remember
that. It is for the masses today to
walk circumspectedly. It is for
these who have no need of such
eirt umspeotion today to recollect
well that for evetything they do
! that must they or their children
! sooner or later account for.
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