The Monitor

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MONITOR The Family Calling Weekly of New Jersey Seventeenth Year—No. 33 Saturday, August 25, 1923 Two Dollars Per Annum—Price Five Cents Militarism vs. The People's Vote By B. F. A MONGST all their blundering acts, no deed committed by satellites of the Freak State was as foolish as the arrest and imprisonment, on the Feast of the Assumption, of President DeValera. As a martyr he will be a great gainer at the polls and Republicans will rally to the just cause with renewed fervor. The Freak State will gain nothing but opprobrium. It is said that the Freak State cabinet was equally divided on the wisdom elected choice of the people of Ireland. No wonder the English-created cabinet was divided: rebels though they were, they saw the foolishness of further arousing to subdue a people into subjection and abjection by the stupid course of incarcerating the leader. Addressing a vast throng fearlessly and openly in the market square at Ennis, a throng which had given him, as the anti-Irish press had to admit, a "tumultuous reception," the President had but begun his remarks when the enemy swooped upon him in gun-laden cars, shooting among the crowd, seriously and perhaps fatally wounding bystanders, charging the people with bayonets and then, in transitory triumph, carrying off to jail the unresisting President. The whole thing, like most of the English Freak State performances, strongly suggestive of opera bouffé; it was dramatic, it was noisy and ostentatious, but it was rotten bad taste. The President, calmly addressing the people before his seizure, said: "When we could not come to you to tell you the truth, they said we were anarchists, out for destruction. I come here to tell you I never stood for destruction. I never have stood for the enemy's game, which is incite one party to fight another party. "Since the beginning, I have preached one gospel, which is the gospel I preach to you today." The arrival of the military out off further remarks. In a burst of loyalty the people tried to defend him, but the President waved them back and submitted to the indignity of arrest. A coward would have relished help; would have permitted bloodshed. Not so a right-ecus cause, and his star has not descended. To England and her today Freak State be- Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won. At a big Republican gathering in O'Connell Street, Dublin, last Sunday, the chief speakers were the twelve-year-old sons of Eamon DeValera and Erskine Childers. Young DeValera said: "Friends of Ireland, my father promised to speak to you today, but he cannot for servants of the foreigner arrested him in Clare, and imprisoned him. I know not what they will do with him. They may give him the same fate as Dick McKee, Erskine Childers and Liam Mellows. They can put us and others to death. But they can not kill the spirit of freedom in Ireland. That spirit will live and Ireland will be free from sea to sea in spite of foreigne…