Show J I A WORD TO EXCITABLE IRISHMEN All racea of men have their classes There Is a class of Irishmen In the East and In the south of Ireland Itself that i levelheaded Irishmen In America especially I es-pecially ought to be cautioned against I To read the Irish World one would think that the power and prestige of Great Britain were thoroughly broken I There was a great meeting the other j 1 nlKht In New York One man brought 1 effect that Great In resolutions to the i Britain was In the dust that now she would for some centuries suffer all the hardships that Ireland has in the past I Our Judgment Is that these things are done merely that a set of loafcre can I I wring more assessments out of the Irishborn population of this country I The utmost strength that the Boors can I bring against Great Britain cannot exceed ex-ceed 100000 men If any other nation would interfere Great Britain would sink every transport that tried to carry reinforcements to the Boers More than I that there Is no nation In a condition to make war upon Great Britain at all Russia hus several millions of people in her territory that are in Imminent danger of dying of famine She has unprotected un-protected orks In Eastern Asia which It will take her several years to MX so that she will be In a condition to meet attacks from the sea and she is using all her strength now to protect those works not against Great Britain but against Japan France If let alone would make a good fight against England Eng-land but she would never dare begin a trouble of that kind with Germany and her SCOOOO trained soldiers on her frontier It would be suicide In the same way Germany has no tleet whatever what-ever to compete with Great Britain and I she while the great military power of Europe still has France on the one side I and Russia on the other and does not trust either Aa for Austria Italy Spain and all the other states of Europe Eu-rope they are not worth considering And this is all so plain that wo think it will Justify us In saying that the excitement ex-citement which Just now some Irish are trying to work up is simply to rob their countrymen throughout the country coun-try Just as ODonovan Rossa did for fifteen years Our private Judgment Is that Ireland has lost the opportunity of a century Had the leading men In Ireland when this war broke out with the Boers proclaimed that whatever their former differences might have been or may now be with England the realm being assailed they were ready lo help In the war In favor of their own country had they done that they would have had home rule In six monthshome rule as much as Australia Aus-tralia or Canada has As It Is England w III whip the Boers this year or next some time and when her army comes home with 150000 trained men to back her 750 warships she will not be in a humor to be very merciful to her pronounced pro-nounced enemies |