Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-23
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.
Cablexram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.

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! Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1918.
LONDON, England, December I'll
| Probably the greatest danger now
| confronting the world is bolshevism.
| Everywhere it is trying to. undermine
the basis OF civilization. Its latest
field of activity is Ireland. John
Joseph O'Brien, formerly of the
United States regular coast artillery
and later a respected member of the
between 10000 and 10000 American
Industrial Workers of the World
members are working arduously and
i craftily to disrupt Irish society and
| rob the country.
"All this plotting and planning"
he said, is under cover. On the sur
| face one sees nothing Of it. 1t pro-
ceeds beneath the noses Of the Irish
police; they seem to be ignorant OF
what is happening. At the head of
the agitation are few. international
crooks who are not 1rEshmen- at all.
Most of them are of the same German
Jewish type that has. brought Russia
to the depths of misery. Their oniy
motive is to throw the country into
confusion and paralyze authority and
then murder and plumber the pro-
ertied classes. 1t is merely a bloody
brigandage strategically projected on
national scale. Tens of thousands
, of honest Irishmen are dupes of they
scientific felonS.
Came From Western America.
Never before has Ireland contained
! so many criminal daredevils as it con-
tains today. They did not spring from
the old sod. They grew up In western
America. Their methods and their sheer
scorn of personal peril are things
Europe does not produce today only
few days ago their wild west au-
dacity showed itself in Cork. One of
their number was in Cork Jail. They
wanted him out, of course. They got
past the police. entered the. Jail
knuck,e-dusted the guards. released
their man and escaped. They are still
free Ireland has never been the
cradle of rascals of this school.
They are busy from Cork to Belfast
Talbot street in Dublin is the most
dangerous thoroughfare l have ever
seen. and I have been all over the
world. 1t is worse than the worst
sections OF the Bowery in New York.
Il myself was robbed there in a char
acteristic scum of ruffians, though ]
fancied l knew how to take care OF my
self if any one did. Colonial soldiers
are robbed there frequently. It is not
in the least an Irish affair; it is an
affair of our own wild apd woollv west
Large numbers of the I. W. VS.
were drilled atnight at White Plains
New York, twelve months before the
war. 1 saw them training and | in
terviewed many of them in Ireland:
They belong to an Irish movement and
used to have their headquarters in a
New York hotel. All their strength
is with the Sim Feiners They want
an absolutely Independent Irish re-
publc-those of them who are honest
Those who are not honest want whole
sale disorder with it's easy opening for
slaughter and plumber.
"..iy experience in America, especial
ly among the dangerous classes, en-
abled me to understand what was go
ing on in Ireland. Every symptom of
the social malady was familiar to
me. To this hour the majority of
persons in ireland cannot maze out
what is the matter. Unrest every
in the presence of results Of forces
hidden from their view. These forces
are organized with a skill 1 have
never seen elsewhere. They have
large clerical STATS and plenty of