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Show j MAC SWINEY S SACRIFICE j Those called upon to say "no" to the request for the release of ;j Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork have a most unenviable position. ! To hold the Irish leader in jail until he starves himself to death is to make a martyr ami intensify the bitterness of the struggle for Irish rule; to open the doors of the jail is to invite other political , , prisoners to force their way t liberty by the same method j Either horn of the dilemma has extreme embarrassments for the j Englishmen who are called on to decide. I Ma-Svinev must be a man of preat determination and remark- I able devotion to a principle, The ordinary individual early in the struggle would havi yielded to the gnawing of hunger and the I prompting of self preservation. .But men will sacrifice to the utmost ji for a cause which grips their souls and do more for a principle that deeply possesses them, than if the motive swayinp them he purely a j matter of personal welfare. |