would have remained masters of the field in South Africa.

It was the inglorious part of Ireland to be linked with those "methods
of barbarism" she herself knew only too well, in extinguishing the
independence of a people who were attacked by the same enemy and
sacrificed to the same greed that had destroyed her own freedom.

Unhappy, indeed, is it for mankind, as for her own fate and honour
that Ireland should be forced by dire stress of fortune to aid her
imperial wrecker in wrecking the fortune and freedom of brave men
elsewhere.

That these physical qualities of Irishmen, even with a population now
only one tenth that of Great Britain are still of value to the empire,
Mr. Churchill's speech on the Home Rule Bill made frankly clear
(February, 1913). We now learn that the First Lord of the Admiralty
has decided to establish a new training squadron, "with a base
at Queenstown," where it is hoped to induce with the bribe of
"self-government" the youth of Cork and Munster to again man the
British fleet as they did in the days of Nelson, and we are even told
that the prospects of brisk recruiting are "politically favourable."

Carthage got her soldiers from Spain, her seamen, her slingers from
the Balearic Islands and the coasts of Africa, her money from the
trade of the world. Rome beat her, but she did not leave a defeated
Carthage to still levy toll of men and mind on those external sources
of supply.

Germany must fight, not merely to defeat the British fleet of to-day,
but to neutralize the British fleet of to-morrow. Leave Ireland to