Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
BEAT GERMANY At ANY
COST, SAYS IRISH ENVOY
7. P. 0Connor Visits Capital on Tour
in Interest of Home Rule; New
Conditions in Emerald Isle.

T. F. OCOnnor. member or the britiSi
parliament, is hero in the interest OF
tho home rule movement of Ireland
He arrived shortly after o'clock last
night and went to the homo OF SEN
ator Phelan OF California 224s street
northwest, where he will be guest
during his stay here the length OF
which, he said, Is indefinite.
''Tay Pay" after discussing the causes
leading up to the recent rebellion IN
Ireland. said that England and her
allies should keep up the great strus-
gle now going on until German mill
tarism is crushed. however long ~
takes and whatever 1t costs He said he
was not an authority on the present
conflict, and would not even venture a
forecast as to when the end would
come.
Compared With France.
He would talk. however. about the
Irish situation and the homo rule prob
lem He compared the Sim Fem rebel
lion with the state of feeling In Paris
during the French revolution. or the
days Of the Commune or conditions In
Russia Immediately following the de-
Enforcement of the car.
Some of the opponents of home rule.
he said profess to want republic
and to believe that they can get 1t. l
| don't believe that many of these gen.
tlemen really believe what they say. or
| that the Irish people think they believe
| 1t. There is another section or the OPP
| position that proclaims what is called
the Hungarian policy-namely. the pol
icy of abstaining from attendance in
| the parliament at Westminster
Il might go on until you come to the
inevitable conclusion that the one policy
which unites these discordant elements
| of honest fanatics, of knaves exploit
ing them. of dreamers of impossible
dreams and of reactionaries who dis
guise their hatred of all Irish liberty
by processing the ultra gospel OF unat-
clusion that the one policy on which
these heterogeneous elements are
agreed is that of destroying the Irish
parliamentary party and the constitu-
find ADLER, she certainly cannot find
more honest and more disinterested
representatives than the men who have
been fighting for her rights, some of
! them for half a century. If she can find
| such men, let her have them. II new lead
ers can do as much for the next half
century as we have done in the last
half then. indeed. will Ireland be
happy.
Received No Government Money.
Let me suggest one little difficulty
which lies in the path of the part.
which is planned to be built on the
wreck of the present party. 1t has been
a leading. a vital principle of our party
that none of us shall take place or pay
from any British ministry. We have
kept our word to the very letter. Not
one Of us has ever received a penny
Of government money. But we will &c
| on with the effort to fulfill our mission
Ito secure freedom for Ireland
We have helped TO carry all the
measures which have created the new
Ireland. What is the new Ireland
Three hundred thousand heads of fam
lilies. absolute owners of their lands
the landlord. gone; the bailiff, gone:
| the rent-warner, gone-even the rent
office gone! Every trace of the old,
| hateful. tyrannical landlord system has
gone.
What, then, is the trouble?
The trouble is that English stupid
| ity. or at least the stupidity of her sol
| diers, many of them reactionary Irish
men, not controlled by English minis
| tiers. have driven Ireland mad by their
follfes and cruel executions
| "Tay Pay" is an old friend of Senator
| Phelan. They met when "Tay Pay" was
| in California as a member of the Irish
parliamentary commission some years
ago, so long that neither '.Tay Pay" MOI
the Senator would give the year, buI
Mr.. O'Connor said that at the time "the
Senator was not long out of the per.
| ambulator."