TUESDAY, DECEMBER. 21. 1920. IMPERIALISM UNMASKING. ITSELF.

Grey River Argus, 21 December 1920, Page 2

TUESDAY, DECEMBER. 21. 1920. IMPERIALISM UNMASKING. ITSELF.

WHEN fair "words lead only to evil deeds, the gangs who, in the name of imperialism, rule to-day in. most countries, insph'-e no hopes but those of deceit ana reaction, ahey told the fighters nnen malting Avar that when. l*iey_ brought back peace — witn victory — it Avouid. 'mean their return to a country lit lor hoio%s. What that meant can. bo soon, by the presence to-day in. the Old Country of probably a million people without work or money, many of them back below the hunger-line of pre-war' days. Till now the old hunger line has, for a few years, been kept out of sight in. Britain, in order to facilitate war, but, that over, the country fit for heroes vanishes into, thin air. The idle worker gets the cold shoulder. Ex-soldiers are made only a political pawn, being used to smasfti unions: but to their recent big unemployed demonstration led by 20 Mayors in London, the response is the erection of barricades in jstreets, to protect the politicals, whose preference is to profiteer- in wool or coal. If the workers want, an alternative they e"n look for it in tho treatment the imperialistic, franjj at this moment tp"+p out in India aiid Ireland where the popular will is repressed by literally the whip and by fire and sword. The high priests of imperialism, in snort, have no longer any use whatever f«»r a country fit for heroes — good enough for them are low wages, an. overflowing labour supply and a starving proielant: tbfcir freedom to expioit ana luxuriate is 1 worth more than any hardship to the mass of the workers. One executor for the ruling gang, Churcjiiil, the war-plotter, the present-day imitator of the Kaiser as the world's leading sabre-rattler, having failed in his plans f oi» wars to / the end, on Russia and in Mesopotamia, has refused to abide by the sentiments of peace-love-rs. Seeing the unemployed soldiers were to be had by the hundi'ed thousand, foe turned his attention' to the arch-rebel Carson's campaign of prewar origin, and, collecting a big ariuy, and recruiting even the social derelicts of English cities, he turned his militaristic ambitions over to the account of the -exploiters of Ireland. There is yet no certainty as to who fired the hoards of wool at Liverpool, though an exasperated public were probably responsible; but there can be no doubt about the guilt of the huge incendiary . outrage just perpetrated on the City of Cork, where the people aro so terrorised that they are cv'en scared to speak |he facts at the enquiry which the military have kept in their own hands, after giving orders to withdraw the culprits. The" infliction of damage on innocent people to the tune of many millions sterling is the imperialistic idea of a world made safe for democracy, even though their hypocrisy Into ly led them to mouth lamentations about the burning by Germans in Belgium of the Louvain Library. The fact stands out clearly that to-day Irc"anrl linger an alleged peaefc is faring worse thn-n BeVium in 1914 fared under the Gentians in the stress of . fi groat war. Town of tor town Tims >vopn -rnzod : Trish T>i"ner < *. till tliov recently were suppressed, . had page after page filled with accounts of murders and inhuman outrages systematically carried out by men assured if immunity, from trial or punishment, and all in the name of democracy, and of the British Crown, whose repute is thus trailed in the mud before the "world. The i imperialistic bounders freely .counifen*

ance and encourage^tMsjssa "£fc|ie; name of democracy! Si|p|§^P^el|iaiw and order is a blot on d^^^^offi^ whole I nation terrorised, for wishing to be f I ' ee » l^^ffi i \ §|t now evidently imbued Ra|||jj|jn lllpt °^ those who sent them,l|3||Brasvlnlkry, to do a dirty work whicn^^^Kfeir^redit, many have resigneofa|sßffiHß % "than carry out. When Iffii 0^' 3 " sid<3 with the peopl^S^^ras%! ; the "Black and Tan" mercen| §l|f ' ast on many occasions they do, tn^poiitside world learning a little from pme to time, when suppression of thelifcruth is impossible, must surely rpvisef its former estimate of British liberal professions. The reputed design -if those responsible, to emulate CornwilT, must at this age of humanity utterlyffail, for the world has begun to look Inot to words, but results. When ojher peoples have recognised the fi§hts of small nations, they will yet^rant to know why the expressed wilf of the Irish people has been recognised only by the gaoling of 6.S of the W elected j.risk representatives, and tho||e&»on of the army of occupation will not wo io&t upon all those whose goal is true liberty. It will ensure if it lasts, a similar appeal, to naked force in a i'ugion far wider than Ireland or. India: so that its teachers can be indicted aiready as tthe real wreckers of the Empire. When fire and sword are the only arguments used, blind compulsion can be the sole aim, an aim which liistory and even Europe to-day proves an impossibility. The imperialist bounders are forcing the Empire asunder in many parts, and Bonar Law's words recently about the right or every dominion .to break away, no matter with what ievity -they were spoken, may be realised very differently from the way his promise.* of liberty have been realised up to the present. What to ; expeet from such praters about freedom is now plain. The results to which disillusion as to » present-day imperialism has led in India, Ireland Egypt and South Africa, when they are contrasted with its promises, will in a manner surprising -to more than the ruling gang be reflected widely among the peoples who have been hitherto disposed to treat the dictators -;oo tolerantly. Such counterfeit democracy must beget its own antidote. Tho menace to all can not be long enough corfccaled ±o enable the whole of the people not yet victimised directly to be overcome piecemeal. Befofe it can finally conquer, imperialism wil lhave. been fully unmasked an < it will end.