12 PAGES ' PAGES 9-12 YEAR =4. IRISH DILEMMA IS FOR BRITAIN: Americans Are Waned Not Ip~Agaravate the Situation. 103 MEMBERS OF COMMONS roo NO. IH WHO HAVE A NUMBER. IRISH LARGE ARE letter-- and Men Harrison's Hot to the Money England to Pacify Too. Harr a long letter to The Iris} Frederic Points "Spent by Ire. land --Roasts Politicians, Londo Vay Frederic course of son In the The Morning Dilemma ays Englishmen welcome thusi the entrance of the Republic not merely asm into this tremend hecause we are ing side hy side, but rat it manifests that the common cause that of civilization. humanity and com Am eminent peace. But does this glorious radeship in arms quite justily erican politiclans, however and friendly, in thrusting themselves ipal politics at a mo } As an Eng I wonder to see my salwart into our munis ment of intense crisis lishman friend Roosevelt and so many leaders of American intellect and statesman ship re-echoigg the during tale sophisms of our enemies one of the most inveterate trials to w ever been exposed What would the American of their dilemmas, say if our ex-Min isters, doctors and preachers were to summon them with a passionate ap peal Yo raise up their twelve million of colored to equal human dignity, ma on the citizens to wip out the national stig h that every dark exclusion Oar commonwealt man or woman born with a born shame life of a pariah race? American friends in our almost des perate crisis at home, repeat the un- real, untrue, malicious taunts of our enemies within and without the Uni ted Kingdom Wien they tell us to 'give the Irish nation' autonomy, where is the 'Irish, nation?" Our very dilemma is that there are three tions of Irishmen, each repudiating and contradicting, and, if we let them, eager to fight each other skin is into and the EL 1914 Act Impracticable? "Phe Home Rule act' cry one group, though they and all men of! | Parliamenta epresentation, lowed to rest and grow rich, , scorn of hich Britain has| do if:we intervened in one I'To the warring lands on that vilify ou ' rime n our need. Y ev still ery out and 1hey use sentation aave ountry but! 1 outside or Therc ars whom 'our n mentors t¢ us we must They seem to think that if started the ( 1914 all smooth in Ireland: that Irishmen would enlist the fr is far more likely that if artert the act, and withdrew the nand, Ireland iin three months be in. a state of the groups at open war And as as the Sinn Fein recruits. got n their hands they would turn igainst us and proclaim the re- as they did a year ago. WaVvs as in a urs would have chaos -- "Great Potsdam Lies." flow can responsible that most false of* all dar » that Ireland has been | Poland was by Russia, or ire hy Austria Austria, st open its Parliament at hanged 2,000 Bohem- to say nothing of the f Serbians, Bosnians and Why, for two generations Britain has sacrificed her men and her own do justice to Irish de- purse, her policy, her interests to ands Her Parliament. her Government have all | Wife and Children of Ti Yuan-Hung, the been stefined to meet Irish claims, to tore Irish welfare Ireland never heen so wealthy, so Presuerous, «0 hopeful as she is to-day 'When the war come Ireland was treated as being outside of it, as if it were a spoilt and unmanageable son who musi not be crossed. It was al- that Britons and true Irishmen were bearing in the war this to the eternal ghame of the Irish name, which Britons and which history will never forget or excuse; to the eternal shame also of those be- sotted politicians "who have treated Ireland as a timid fool might treat a dangerous lunatic whom he abraid to touch and hoped to coax.' all The Thirty Thousand. it \ vm James" Pitt The thirty thousand sailed away Autumn day Over the hedving ocean passed A challenge to the Prussian caste Is it fateful years since that day. For the they thirty thousand, where. are 2 Flanders lie sailed away sands of who » Under the The thousands die; In the Thousands of low; Or through busy on, The weak rearguard of a brave he arts languish | streets they totter legion gone. | The Teuton host like a torrent poured Through, the widening gap with sweeping sword, ? ot Fate's balance shook on day; the thirty bay But thousand sense know that the act of 1914 is{ pen into the breach their numbers | impracticafle as it stands, and must in any case be revised under the un- gent stress of war. 'No Dublin Par lament for us," cries Ulster-- Ulster, by far the richest and most civilized most vigorous element in Ireland, the only element which joins us in the war, and is not openly malevolent, and now a third factor brings in the cry, 'Away with Redmond and his lot, traitors all; independent repub lic, down with British uniforms," of flicials and law.' \ "Our difficulty and has been for generations, to know which group we ought to regard as the strongest and most permanent. Which of them is the Irish nation? All three furi- ously claim to be the real Irish nation "Ireland has already 103 represen- tatives in the House of Commons, vastly in excess of its due proportion At Westminster the Nationalist mem- the bers occupy as much time as all the fed the hungry when they have told | consumption, obstru¢t and | the hungry how to make an omelet. 4 rest The! y complain of, hurled, And the First Division saved a world. | No thirty thousand weye they then, But a ragged handful of Northern men; No thirty thousand are they new, But in decades hence when they ques- tion how - The rush was stopped for the Chan- nel ports, Shall History point to a Jine of forts? Brave old veto, 'twas a glorious day When the away! thirty thousand Jailed | Even if babies talk sense it is doubtful whether , their mammas would let them Too many peeple think they have | sore] for more | trensonable statesmen | has | | in sullen | Autumn prison camps of a mighty toe | that April} | stood at] were disposed to] KINGSTON, ONTA R10, THURSDAY. ___the Chinese Republic. 100K T0 CANADA | FOR CEREALS ' Dominions Efforts tomnl Food Production Followed With With Admiraion. was | AD IN ACHIEVING VICTORY | BY SUPPLYING FOR TROOPS AT FOOD FRONT. Allies Will Their Suc- Without Suck Help The Not Be Able to Push cesses As They Desire, London, May 2.--Discussing the problem, Director-General of Jones made | | food Food Economy Kennedy ) | the following statement: "We in England are following with gratitude and nthe | that'are being taken in Canada to in- f crease the production of foodstuffs. | Every pound of food raised in the Do- i minion is another spike in the tor~ Ipedo-tubes of the German jubmarine. | Your effective organization of volun- | tary land-workers, the patriotic way in which university and high school Students are responding to the call to spend their vacations in helping the Im rmers and the promotion of vacant- ot cultivation are all characteristic D the thorough way in which Canada is making war. have not come | Forking on the admiration steps These too soon same movements We are lines here, but ve are slow to realizesthe emergency | and our efforts cannot have much ap- | prec iable results until 1918. "To achieve that complete victorgl | which alone will satisfy every part of [ the Empire, we must rely on Canada | for a cereal crop that will represent | the cultivation of every acre by every | available man, woman, boy and girl Without' this there may not be suffi cient food in the Motherland to push | the successes won at Ypres, the Somme and Vimy Ridge at the price; {of Canadian bravery. Our people | here will do their best by cutting down to the bare minimum their own| or, if necessary, rich} [and poor alike will only be able to | obtain bread to keep them going by means of fickets. But neither volun- | tary self-sacrifice nor compulsory ra- | tioning of the Motherland will be of {ultimate avail unless we can count {on Canada for a cereal crop that will | be up to the standard set by the Can- | adians on the battlefields of France." New President of ~---- ~~ , The cry of emergency is no empty one, In time of war no one can say just what is going to happen from day to day, and the only proper way is to be prepared fo ny con- tingency The Government therefore has de- cided to call out a force of 50,000 men, to be known as the Canadian Pefence Force, whose duty it will be to take care of any military emer- gency. The raising of this force will make possible the departure of all the overseas troops, and men who join the Canadian Defence Force are therefore relieving others to go over- seas s Terms of enlistment in the C.D.F. .are the same as for overseas service, for the duration of the war. subsistenée; clothing and-equip- are the same, and separation allowances are granted in the case of married men. For the present men who join this force will drill two evenings and one afternoon a week for which they will be paid 50 cents a parade. 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' "There's a Reason" | pearing in the press from officers at the front with regard to the need of} | men in_the front line trenches, and | surpride has been expressed by sev- eral that there should be any slow- | ness on the part of those at home! {now in coming forward to join the] | forces, These officers remember the | large rush on the declaration of war | of men to the colors, and they can- | not understand why this should be, {less now that the need is greater { than ever. { The war is not finished yet, and | though the outlook is hopeful there] is still the prospect of the struggie ! going on for some time. An eminent the statement of Lord Kitchenep that the side which was able to throw the last 50,000 men .into the field was] the one which would win the war. | The last 50,000 men in Canada| | whe have enlisted for overseas ser- | vice are now almost all overseas or on their way. 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