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A NATION OF BRUTES If Mr T P OConnors countrymen hold the same view as he does with respect to that characteristic act of brutality the torpedoing of the Loiustcr there should be an end once and for all to any sympathy of any section of the Irish people with the Germans Politics like adversity makes strange bedfellows and thus it was that before the war the unionists and antihome rulers of Ireland headed by Sir Edward Carson purchased arms from Germany for use against the constituted authorities of Great Britain should they attempt to set up home rule in Ireland On the other hand after Great Britain entered the wac against Germany a few Irish enemies of that country who favored not merely selfgovernment for Ireland but complete separation from the United Kingdom entered into deplorable Conspiracy with the kaisers government a conspiracy which led to a widening of the breach between England and Ireland IrelandNeither Neither side has any reason for satisfaction still less pride for its commerce with the country which Mr Balfour speaking for him with unusual warmth has rightly designated as a nation of brutes Let us hope that both are heartily sick and ashamed of the connection und that ufiter the unspeakable crime of the sinking of the Leinster in the Irish Channel and the deliberate and coldblooded murder of 500 Irish as well as English and American women and children they will make common cause against the world foe aiid that out of it will come permanent agreement and mutual understanding understandingThe The Leinster incident Is equalled if not excelled in atrocity by the sinking of the steamship Ticer ondoga 1700 miles off the Atlantic coast accord ¬ ing to the tale of twenty survivors out of 250 aboard In this case the commander of the Uboat made a deliberate attempt to slaughter every sur ¬ vivor who had taken to lifeboats and rafts and nearly succeeded in carrying out the spurlos ver senkt idea These things are being done at the same time that Germany through her statesmen and diplomatists is seeking to arrive at peace with those she lias already immeasurably wronged and she is moreover still scheming to sit at a table and con ¬ fer as to terms of armistice evacuation and com ¬ pensation with entente representatives It cannot be believed that there is a single entente states ¬ man who would be willing to meet and confer ou these or kindred subjects with a npresentiitlve of the present criminal and bloodatained German gov ¬ ernment Xew York Herald
