. The National Civic Federation review . these selfish and maligninfluences. Let Americans, and this includesthe great majority of Irish also, come to the con-viction that the Irish movement has a hyphenin it, and there will be a reaction the force ofwhich can not be overestimated. A LITTLE THINKING NEEDED It is high time that every American with Irishblood in his veins, and every American trulyinterested in the Irish cause, should commenceto do a little intelligent thinking for himself in-stead of giving his mind over to the emotional-ism of meetings and the claptrap of perfervidoratory. Iris
. The National Civic Federation review . these selfish and maligninfluences. Let Americans, and this includesthe great majority of Irish also, come to the con-viction that the Irish movement has a hyphenin it, and there will be a reaction the force ofwhich can not be overestimated. A LITTLE THINKING NEEDED It is high time that every American with Irishblood in his veins, and every American trulyinterested in the Irish cause, should commenceto do a little intelligent thinking for himself in-stead of giving his mind over to the emotional-ism of meetings and the claptrap of perfervidoratory. Irish freedom is now merely an aca-demic assertion, and the question that each sin-cere, intelligent person should ask himself isthis: How can Irish freedom be made a fact? There are just two ways and only two: (1) byforce of arms, (2) by Englands own action. To any person of sense, the first way is outof the question. Ireland cannot possibly hopeto cope with the military might of England. By GEORGE CREEL (By permission of Leslies Weekly.). GEORGE CREEL Even if she had the manpower, which she hasnot, she lacks guns, munitions, aircraft and allthe scientific machinery of war. England,crouched over the isle like a lion over a bull ter-rier, could strike and crush almost in a where, outside of Ireland, is armed forceto come from ? Not from France and Italy, bledwhite. Not from Eussia, from Spain, fromJapan? This leaves the United States as theone possible chance. Does anyone imagine fora moment that the people of America, not yetrecovered from the shock and horror of a worldwar, will take arms against England in Irelandsbehalf? Not an Irishman urges it; not eventhe Sinn Fein leaders themselves, as they admit-ted to me, even dream of it. Let us, at this point, consider the position ofthe United States with reference to this Irishmatter. The President is hissed and openly de-nounced by Irish patriots like Mayor Thomp-son, of Chicago, for having failed to rise, in hisplace in Pa
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