The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-30
WANT WILSON TO
SETTLE IRISH QUESTION
SUGG ESTlON is MADE IN THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS BY
JOHN DILLON

LONDON, July 29.-The debate in the
house of commons today on the Irish
question ended in the defeat of the
| Irish adherents. The motion of John
Dillon, the nationalist leader, con-
demning the governments Irish pol
icy was rejected by vote Of 245 TO
l6. Mr.. Dillon's suggestion that the
question of Ireland be referred to
President Wilson was received by the
house, but as Former Premier AS
quith pointed out it could not be
expected that the president of the
United States would undertake sucn
an ardgous task at this time and the
matter was obviously one which the
British people would have to settle
themselves
The question which was one Of
overwhelming Importance. Mn As
quith declared, and he made strong
appeal to the government to make
another effort even at the eleventh
hour to settle it,
The CHER secretary for ireland Ed
ward Short, made a speech concili-
atory in tone, but 1t did not concilate
the nationalists They received tina
warmest support from the labor party,
who's espokesman, William Adamson,
member Of West Fife, announced thai
Mr. Dillon's motion would receive it's
support, the labor party believing that
the Irish question could be settled b.,
a generous measure of home rule, and,
he added, the British people ought
to grant ii now.
Introducing his resolution which ex~
presses the vitw that the true solu-
| ton of the irish question is to put In
on operation without delay in regard
to ireland the principles laid down by
| President W Wilson, Mr. Dillon admit
ted that the nationalist party was in
| difficulty, but he added, 1--WE are be-
cause we have struggled to save
the constitutional position and bring
] ireland into the war while the gov
eminent has done everything in its
power to keep ireland out of the war
| The nationalist leader declared the
question of ireland was a war ques-
! ito nand that was why ne brought it
up at the present time How could
Great Britain, he asked. put before the
world as one of her objects OF the
war, the freeing of small nationalities
| when there was ireland lying at her
! back door, under the unhappy tyran
ny of a military government"
The Irish were holding back in the
war, Mr. Dillon declared, because they
believed the government was determ
ined to break faith with ireland and
deny her the right which she had won
after long and patient struggle
There had been a German plot in
| ireland before thhe war; there had
been a German plot in Ireland since
the war They had three objects.
First-To deprive the British of
Irish help
Second TO compel Great Britain
to keep large number of British
troops in ireland
Third To weaken the moral posi-
| ton of Great Britain in dealing with
the cause of small nations
The Germans, said Mr. Dillon, hao
succeeded simply and solely because
Of the operations Of the British gov
eminent
| The way to conquer German plots,
| the Irish nationalist leader went on,
was not to break faith with but to
win the sympathy of the Irish people
| themselves. No one in Ireland be-
lieved in any pledge of the British
| government or that the government
would stick to any policy whatever
MIR. Dillon counselled the premier 20
settle the Irish question by referring
it to President Wilson, or else by
taking ii into his own hands, and
abandoning at once all coercive
measures.
Regarding the suggestions made by
John Dillon, the Irish nationalist
Header, that the Irish question be re-