Show I H EXECUTiONS BY DR I I I GIBBONS lV Home Ruler I e Making aking Martyrs m of Sinn F I I y J o 91 I Ij j Or ormON s. s July 22 I 1 1 am sorry to i tp r e a that the American press taking cuc cue ue from the the ill advised and inac- inac oi t e Jfe speech of ot Mr bIr Dillon in the ate use nee of Commons has been severe S of ot the Dublin exe- exe one ons and seems disposed to make makert rt rs of ot the Sinn writes writE's 1 r ert Adams Gibbons This is a fc c For It tends to excite ill feela feel- feel against the British government In m erIca at a time when It IB is our imo im- im o J r fra ive duty to use every ery effort to tor tot t mote mutual understanding and pathY between the two Anglo- Anglo xon Con nations whose world interests lt 1 e identical is as a warm and con consistent siR tent home Duller Iter that I want to feet ket forth facts Ii lat t seem to be Ignored ignore in America n t d for r that matter to a large extent i 1 jt E land 1 Sinn are separatists b hi r and simple The They do not bellevo believe J to the home nome rule bill They fuse tuse to follow Redmond and the nai nas na- na s i alist party part They have never had their or organization men of or practical sense who have developed of ot constructive leadership It gh the s successful pursuit of busty bust busi- eeor or a a. profession They launched y iJ rebellion on against a tho the government in Ur aster ster week which had no other raison etre etie than to play into the hands of e Germans This is proved by a e hazy indefinite character of the t they had in mind b their lure to enlist In the movement the lk Ik of the Irish people and men mn of manding ability who would have de good had the rebellion been ben suc- suc stul f fled d Nationalist Leaders The rebellion was wag plotted and inched in defiance of the remonta remon- remon Stances ta antes and pleadings of the nationalists who had suc- suc Ceded eded after alter thirty years in winning cause of ot home rule The Sinn Feins Fein- Fein s vero told that by defying the Brit Brit- government and making malting trouble p eY might nullify the advantages that rid d been gained gaited by hy the wholly lawful d correct attitude of ot the nationalists sharp contrast to the lawlessness and I treason of ot Sir Edward Carson old I hiS followers 11 3 Decent cent thinking Irishmen p g the most ardent of home rulers that the Sinn in rebell- rebell F the government were gull gull- of two unpardonable crimes a tried ey tried to knife In the bath back the Eng- Eng ill during a life and death Tuggle ruggle by plotting with the German fb b they accepted the as- as tance tance of ot the Citizens' Citizens my iy who were composed of the dregs the Dublin population and whose iY of faith was murder and loot I id lid arson in arson in a word anarchy 41 The military authorities far from loVing owing an autocratic and vengeful First were most scrupulous and retained re- re the down the in way they put blin rebellion Although the army Bt in killed 17 officers and 89 men d in ht wounded 46 officers and men d the provocation was very great Jere was no promiscuous shooting f i lOf of r the surrendered Sinn l case of Mr lr Skeffington was que and proved afterward to have f e to the Irresponsible action of lJ j Insane officer t G here was not a single trial under r lal law in spite of Mr 11 Dillons Dillon's 1 leech CEch and all that has been written the contrary In bringing ringa ring- ring t d a rs in do the rebellion before a mill mill- court tho the military authorities ted red t d in accordance with the strict letot let- let J f ot t the defense of the realm conf con- con l dation act passed by parliament f 27 1914 1814 which reads Ifor orthe the purpose of the tho trial of a perm pern per- per ember n m for an offense under the regula- regula ns 9 by and the punIsh punIsh- Jent tnt ent thereof the person may be prod pro- pro eded d d against and dealt with as if he heIre heire ire a a. person subject to military law lawt Ire t d had dj ad on active service committed l offense under section 5 of the army t provided that where it Is proved offense is committed with the fJ I of assisting the enemy a p pr- pr M l ln n n convicted of ot such an offense by bv a shall be liable to suffer a path Hath See Ste chapter 8 section f I. I arcle ar- ar cle 4 enunciation Denunciation of Murderers hp men mn convicted under this act of ot were either members of the r visional council of the republic thol hot had attached their signatures t to of the same and ad- ad 11 1 they had done so po proven leads lead- lead Its s of bands who resisted arms In hand nand nandi i forces of th the king after they had hadJ Feen fn n summoned d to lay down their arms J fomen Irmen who had been ben convicted of ot mur- mur err rJ B By mur murder er I mean man shooting un- un and unresisting policemen army and anti civilians Just to give one stance istance lancE the harebrained countess countes filth a Polish name for whom so much is being shown on the first firsta a of the revolt ord ordered r d the shooting tr on guard at the castle casUto Thor o- o was wholly unsuspecting He lIe Head Hed ad d committed or tried trie-d to commit no not t trot tuf of resistance against the Sinn Feint FeIn FeIn- t J s SJ He lIt was waR killed before he knew 1 was hat happening 6 63 The convictions were confirmed i d the t e executions carried out because I commanding hel e commanding general was wag certain nat hatA atthe the exercise of clemency clemenc would eve Me Y resulted In Jn a rapid and dangerous pread rend of tho the rebellion in other parts Ireland The collapse of oC the revo- revo I U nafY movements after the death had been executed proved bat b t he was right in the step he took yLe e could afford to take no risks You h r r P or anyone else in his Uld have done the same Why should so much Ink be wasted Sentimentalizing over the fate of Arse dese dreamers and visionaries who devoted to a cause and sin- sin tre re they may have been nevertheless curved the blood guiltiness of or ing hundreds of precious of-precious human lives jeopardizing d the safety of oC the thc Emr em em- emre re r and the cause of ot the tho allies In a fad d and senseless uprising I have with th the mentality that I rifles the executed rebels as mart mar- mar t s stand thinks nothing nothing- of the th brave men who lost their lives live f d doping their duty many of them s set setI t f I murdered without warning j chance to defend themselves |