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| IRELAND'S CASE AS THE WORLD SEES IT.
The Pressing Danger to England.
MR, G. K. CHESTERTON IN THE
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FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1921.
opposite of the principle of law The peril to England is of the | *** and order. Law is based on the most practical sort. Here again idea that the criminal can be there is no question of a roman- punished; reprisals are based on lo nemesis, but rather of a very the idea he cannot be punished, cold and ugly realism. Modern, They consist of striking at nations may not go to war with random at a crowd of strangers, och other for purely romantic as distinct from striking at fre sons, but when they do go to particular peraons selected from war, they must have a romance] MANCHESTER QUARDIAN.
a community of subjects. That ready to band. The manifest The whole world thinks that is what we mean, in any time of und monstrous parade of milf- England has gone mad. Tant is place, by ruling anybody o arism in Prussia made it much the first fact about foreign policy anything; the very word means easier to persuade the people of and international relations to be that we can punish those whom the Entente of a real moral at- realised at this moment. We do wo wish to punish, and spare tack on militarism itself. The appear to be engage in Ireland those whom we wish to spare Kaiser had reason to curee the in doing something quite wild and When we can no longer do that. lay who he artificially eluvated extraordinary, whether we our-we are not merely ruling badly his nuus aches like a stage selves believe it to be right or we have simply ceased to rula, brigand; it made it considerably wrong. This doce not in itself We have ceased to rule in more difficult for him to assume, prove that we are bound to think Ireland.
at a later stage, the mutton-cho› it wrong. The world felt much
If we were really pretending to whiskors of a Mid-Victorian the samo about France when the rule in Ireland, our rule would be Pacifist. Europe did not go to Reign of Terror was established something far more fantastic and war with the Kaiser for curling and the guillotine seemed to ridiculous than any pantomime. his moustaches, or for doing be working day and night Evon a policeman in a pantomime many much worse things. But yet there was a case for the would be thought out of his when the war came all those Terror, and non like Robespierre character, not to say out of his things came back with it, and supported it in complete sincerity wits, if he himself knocked the made it a war to the death. The But men like Robespierre would butcher's shop to pieces, marely moustaches, the militarism, the have carried sincerity to the bocause the clown had stolen a mad speeches, were already a point of simplicity if they had log of mutton and disappeared familiar jest when they turned modeally supposed that nobody down a trapdoor. And that is into deadly earnest. We had the was taking any notice of them.almost an exact parallel to our vast advantage of having for an We talk to-day in much the forces burning down a creamery, enemy one who was already a sanio way about the Bolsh which is merely a place of butt. And behind this grotesque viks; but the bashfut Bolsheviks storage for the food of peasants, mask was all the real wickedness are not entirely unaware that including the peaceable of Prussian history, which was they are being talked about. peasants. Indeed, the pantomime explored more and more as tho an understatement; war proceeded.. Story after story- blush unseen; nor does Trotsky far the policoman has at least stung to life again the tortured imagine that he is wasting seen the butcher of whom the heroism of the Alliance. Story his sweetness on the desert
meat at present belongs. It is after story of that sort is now air. But the English do rather as if the nearest policeman being told about the English in really entertain a most curios wore to blow up the nearest post Ireland, with every hour that idea that what is done in Ireland office, with everybody's letters passos hy. is done in a corner and concerns and parcels, because there was a only themselves. We treat Ire-scare about forged bank notes. land not only as if it were Our Our role would be quite as For it will be the same in our own farmyard, but Our own ridiculous as this if we wore own case. backyard. The Government and really ruling Iteland.
Foreign nations may But we not make war on us for appross- | The gangs of murderers between are not ruling Ireland. We are ing Ireland. Nor did they make them are rapidly turning it into simply raiding Ireland, exactly war on Prussia for pressing something rather resembling as men raid across a frontior. Poland. Modern nations, as we churchyard. But we still have a And thie first fact is of have said,do not perhaps make vague idea that it is our own considerable concern in foreign war for so noble a romance; but back-gardon, surrounded by a
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Our rulers tell us they can war they take full advantage of never recogniso Ireland as a the romance. For the purpose separato nation. But, in fact, they of this practical argument it are recognising it as a separate would not matter even if it were nation. They are paying the only a romance, Let it be agre- plainest possible compliment to ed for the sake of argument, that its independence; they aro invad-it was not with more Prussian in it. They are invading Ireland wickedness that the world wont xactly as the Prussians invaled to war; but it was with Prussian is to be the faintest hope of a Belgium. Even the Prussians wickedness that the world refus firms and successful foreign policy did not invade Bavaria. Nor can ed to make peace. It was the We must face it even if we hapour foreign critics bring them-long perspective of her infamies pen to agree with this particular selves to bolieva that Britain is in the past that ruado non faco nart of our domestic policy invading Britain.
so long a perspective of battle Defiance might in some cases bo
Now all this to begin with, and against her in the future. Even a policy: but deafness can never be anything but a defect, a loss of apart from anything else, is of if it was not against the oppress- course Vory bad. for Brition for of Poles and Danes that the ong of our live wits. As I shall show in a moment, there is a very prestige. The other nations are diplomatists combined, it
surprised at our having lost largely against the oppressor of particular and pressing danger to Ireland so suddenly and so com-Poles and Danes that the de- England in this case. But for the pietely, and at our confessing or mocracies consented to go On sake of clearness and order let us proclaiming it so loudly and so fighting. And the Poles and put first what the case is, and furiously. It would certainly Danes were not, as the Irish are, how it appears to such critics have been better for our interna- scattered everywhere among all all over the continents of Europe tional position, in any case, if we the now democracies of the earth. and America. In this connec- could have kept up some pretence We can afford even less than the tion it is necessary to bear in of ruling Ireland like a fixed Germans to distribute our foes mind two facts. First outsiders government instead of merely everywhere, for we gather our not only know what we are doing ravaging Ireland like a foreign food everywhere. Oar vory but they sometimes know what invader. It is not merely, their kitchen garden, our very kitchen, we are doing better than we do moral condemnation which does our vory larders are behindi Details appears in their papers us harm; it is also the more doors of which these foes or material impression of so violent friends may keep the key. It a gesture, snatching at something was touch-and-go with us, even as though it were slipping from when all the American Republics 19. Consider what the effect and the Australasian colonies second, even when lies are told would have been if even towards rightly rogarded us as fighting against us along with the truth,
the end of the war, the Prussians against despotism. And we as of course they are, the outsid had been forced to maintain such are piling up a toppling tradition pays no attention to our papers, a desperate system in Bavaria or against ourselves which will which cannot publish the truth.the Rhineland, or some unques- make them regard us as the last even when they contradict the tionable part of their own domin-survival of despotism. Every tiny lies. But long before we come turons which differed from them South American State will be any of these details, there are two in history and croed. broad impressions about the Eng. should have simply said, without enemies.
We proud to be counted among our
When one of the friends. We who would warn joined the party, The party lish in Ireland to-day which are thinking twice about it, "The hundred antanglements of England would never war against held a meeting on May Day, to bewildering the whole world. The German Empire is breaking up." Imperial politice brings us again her, but war to the last for her, celebrate the joining of Mr. first is that England bas abandon- And that is all that must foreign-into a war, that war will become however wrong she might be. If Minami. The party has an on- ed the government of Irelanders now feel it worth white to say a crusade. The defeat of Eng- it be written that these things shakable faith in the Legislature What we are conducting now is ahout the British Empire. land will be the defence of small come, even then I hope that to as the medium through which the CREATING A LEGEND. nations; the ruin of England the last we should be with her, the position of the working classes But the case is far worse than will be the reconstruction of the to take our share in the hatred of is to be improved, and strongly ail. It is at the best, war; and a that. What we are creating world. The nation we love will humanity and our portion in the deprecates a tendency that is very wild sort of war, And the
growing more and more marked second is that the war is of the against ourselves is a legond. For be the one obstacle to a League wrath of God.
among the labour organisations the primary purpose here it would of Nations. The war that will particular sort
Japan to repudiate the was a legond in the sense of a lie. end war. That we think thie lish are still glowing with a recent It probably does gather to itself a wild and exaggerated, that we and quite real indignation against eat many additional legends think when all is said that it, when it was practised by that really are lies. But these we botter
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than Prussia, Prussia, THE PRINCIPLE OF "REPRISALS."great human and historic legends that we think there is a case for are always not only based on a us that foreigners do not see, has This is not in the least a matter truth, but are taken and acted on nothing to do with the point. It stitutional Labour Party, has just reconstruction ig to am- of sentinient, or even of degree. by great masses of men as true. is not a question of what we think, issued the first number of its ancipate labourers from their It cannot be put too clearly and By such legends, or more pro- but of what they think. It is not ariati entitled the Rodoloho present position of slavery, even coldly, as a matter of logicperly perhaps visions, I mean a question of what they do not (Labour Party Report"). The so YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. and fact.
personality things like the mystery of the sea, but when they see the black- Constitutional Labour Party was and rights can be recognised and system everywhere of a certain But, the debt of humanity to and-tan uniform in Ireland, is formed five years ago and is the way can be paved for the JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the
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and commonwealths did come to original cause, had got their tooth not succeeded in gaining a seat the fairness of distribution and may call it a punitive expedition; feel, as a huge and historic truth into that Prussian tyranny, they in the Diet up to the present. mutual help. Otherwise, labourers. you may call it leaving men of this kind, the fact that there were resolved never to let go. At the last general election Mr. will be doomed perpetually to only their eyes to weep with; was something essentially evil They hung on until it dropped. Yamaguchi, the President, con-lot of slavery, and will thue be you may call it 趨 certain
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these circumstances enjoying life. The only way to Those who foresee these things and in murder, you may eallit massacre, truth, but anyhow there is no have no pleasure in foretelling it ia with grant jubilation gain new life in which Independ and you may call it reprisals doubt that over wide tracta of the them. They love their country that the party announces, luensa and freedom is assured in so But the principle of it is perfectly world the same legend that grew and not their prophecies. There the initial number of" its have an unflinching faith in the plain, and can be stated with up against Prussia is everywhere will be no triumph in which they journal, the fact that Mr. Minami, strength of combination by means ciple of reprisals is the very at the moment growing up against can share,; no fons of England a member of the Dist, who is a of which to add to the welfare of
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