We Have No Desire To Clamour For Any Man's Blood,
or that the British nation should do anything for mere purposes of revenge. We cannot doubt, however, that if any men ever deserved to be shot for rebellion they were Clarke,......
No One In The Present Case Can Say We Are
defending conventional bloodthirstiness, for the other way of dealing with an insurrectionary movement has just been tried and failed egregiously. The more extreme section of......
As To Sir Roger Casement We Cannot Speak Freely, For
as we write he is still untried. We are sure, however, that his trial will be a fair one. We must add that if he is found guilty and con- demned to death we see no grounds why......
But Though We Hold That Stern Punishment Must Be Meted
out to the leaders—i.e., the men who misled the miserable revolters of Dublin, now a dejected band of some three thousand prisoners— we have every hope that the Government may......
Of Course, Neither We Nor Anybody Else Want To Shoot
a lunatic, and if true lunacy is declared by competent experts in Sir Roger Casement's case, even. if he is guilty, he will not be shot.. But by lunacy we do not mean......
The Other Event We Have To Record In Special Detail
is the shooting of three of the seven leaders of the insurrection, the men who signed the proclamation of the co-called republic. The men in question, Clarke, Pearse, and......
We Record Elsewhere The Actual Events Of Tho Seven Days'
street battle, but two matters call for special notice. The first is the resig- nation of Mr. Birrell, which was announced by himself in the House of Commons on Wednesday.......
We Shall Be Told, Of Course, That Shooting Rebels Is
no remedy, thatirishinen have long memories, and that if the Government act strongly Ireland will never compose her quarrel with England and Scotland. We do not believe a word......
News Of The Week.
T HE great event of the week has been the crashing of the Irish revolt, or perhaps we should say of the desperate street fighting in Dublin, for, in spite of the destruction of......
