IRELAND’S SHARE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4900, 20 June 1918, Page 2

IRELAND’S SHARE.

REV. R. J. CAMPBELL _SAIS THERE IS A MORAL RIGHT Tt OR CONSCRIPTION.

Presiding at a demonstration in the Albert Hall, London, Sir E. Marshall Hall Iv.C., said it was inconceivable that’lreland would refuse to join in the cause o,f freedom. . Mr. Bottomlev said the politicians were insincere about conscription for Ireland. If she was part of the British Empire she must bear lier share of the burden. Preaching in St Paul s on Sunday, the Rev. R. J.‘ Campbell said that the war that has been forced upon us is no more our war than it is Ireland s war; it is humanity’s war; and how, then, can self-respecting Irishmen be content to stand' asideP Wo -would remind our Irish brothers that we in this ancient land have a moral right to ask them to 1 stand by our side in this dark hour. We have fought a good fight.; wo have given to the very utmost of our resources m life and treasure : our best and dearest have died in their tens of thousands, and: our homes are filled with mourning; men past the prime of life in England are now being called to fight Ireland’s battle. Depleted Irish regiments or .glorious fame are being filled By our sons and brothers, mein of English or Scottish birth. Do not let history have to ted that you refused to play your due _ part when justico and freedom hung in the balance, and all the free peoples of tlie earth were united in a common resolve to rid! the world of tyranny and’ wrong.