Evening star., 1919-09-23
Dublin NOT CURBED
BY RULE Of FORCE.
Control by Army and Crimes
Act Is Regarded as Aid
ing Sim Fein.
MANY 0UTRAGEs OCCUR
by WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN.
By Cable to The Star and the Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1919.

By Cable to The Star and the Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1919.
DUBLIN, ireland, September 90
Dublin now has been for q week un-
der the operation of the combined
force of military rule and procla-
nations under the crimes act. The
net result certainly is not one Of paci-
fication. The effect on opinion is
rather to sway it all farther toward
the left The constitutionalists who
had hoped to recapture the country by
a practicable home rule policy tend
more ana more to sympathize with
THE Sinn Fein, and the more extreme
in the hands Of secret societies which
are outside the control Of responsible
Sim Fe;n leaders.
Some of the leading constitutional
lists is. whom I have anterviewed say
tually intended by the authors of
the drastic policies" who wanted to-
see Ireland simply divided into loyal
men," unionists and rebels" mean
Ing every variety Of drishmsn in f. f.
lord lieutenant and the chief secre-
tary declare themselves home rulers
and could hardly be accused of so much
cynicism. But how far they are really
TeSpOhSlUlc p0TSOudlly Is d -tESS llSu
much debated in Dublin.
Walter Long a Visitor.
As If to show that there was .
power behind and above them, Ire
Long, who sailed into Kingston har-
Dor on an admiralty yacht and had
the lord lieutenant visit him on board.
He was once the leader OF the Irish
unionist party, and at one time was
sent over to Dublin as chief secretary
to check tho measures Of conciltatton
initiated by George wyndham and
to have charge Of Irish affairs in the
war cabinet His apparent control Of
ireland excites irritation among the
home rulers, while republicans are
confirmed In their creed that no mat
ter who is in Dublin castle the Irish
& government really is conducted from
London in the interests Of the Eng
lish, and that 80 long as any link re-
mains with Great Britain it will al
ways be so.
The governments drastic measures
were declared to be aimed at the sup
preston of crime yet 80 far most
Irishmen feel that they have failed
to suppress crime. There have been
deplorable cases-a11 unpunished-of
raids for arms and sometimes in re-
venge against detectives proved to
be exceptionally efficient on official
duty. Detective Hoey on tho morning
OF the day on which he was shot just
outside Of Dublin's chief police sta
tion had been engaged in a police
search Of tho sinn Fein headquarters.
But even the strongest unionist op-
ponents absolved the Sim Fein lead
ers Of any sympathy with such out
rages, and ordinary people feel that
outrages would not be checked but
by putting in Jail the re-
sponsible members OF parliament
Their influence Is recognized as one
Of restraint Newspapers recall that
it was when the responsible Irish
leaders Of. the day were in KilmAtn-
ham Jail in 1882 that the "fnvincible
planned assassination. And a
possible repetition Of the same events is
The dread Of all mems minds.
In my own street recently had an
example Of repression in
practice. A gentleman who Is chief ex.
ecutive head of the Dublin technical
schools and whose brother was one OF
Ireland's chief consulting ply stctans and
a colonel in the royal medical corps dur
for open-air concerts, dancing
and the like to Gaelic societies. When
the people turned up for the usual treat
the police there informed them that as
sembly would not be allowed unless a
pledge were given tnae no ponsicai psS
was refused and the fete was prohibited.
1 think it likely that IL political speeches
had been made they would have been
republican speeches, but they could
hardly have done more to spread repub-
lican sentiment than the pron1oltaon OF
3rv
Nothing Distinguishes q republican
more clearly from . home ruler in Dub
lin than their respective attitudes to-
ward Sir Edward Carson. The home
rulers never cease to attack him. His
tants, The republicans, however, look
upon him as the agent OF the British
government useful for keeping the Irish
people divided. In this weeks New Ire
land writer says 1t recalls the device
Of the English poacher to catch phsas.
the pheasants and then lets loose a game
cock with steel spurs among them The
nheasants slow their pluck by standing
IN to the game cock, with the result
that the poacher bags them. Carson Is
the Carlton Clubs game cock"
Newspapers Nervous.
Now that Sir Edward is on the eve
of starting fresh campaign this
view of his activities Is perhaps worth
recording.
The Dublin newspapers are very
nervous, for at any time competent
authority. may without a
legal process march in, demolish the
and stop publication. Ac-
cordingly when the papers were OFFER
can loan they thought 1t prudent
Cork Examiner, publishing It, shows
that they were wise. The Cork Ex-
aminer is q constitutional paper of
moderate views and hostile to the
republican party. but that did not
save it, It 10 by far the most i'm
portant daily in the south OF Ireland.
As the suppression did not take place
until four days after the issue of the
offending advertisement 1t can only
have been intended as q forcible
warning to others. Certainly it will
which can no longer make themselves
safe BY submitting coyp to the censor
But it will have no effect at all on
the Sinn Fein papers. All their weekly
papers appear this week with the loan
advertisement (the loan for the Irish
"republic') and speculation is active
in Dublin as to whether the compe-
tent military Official here will initiate
the severity Of his colleague in Cork.
IF he does It will mean the suppression
of half q dozen widely circulated
weeklies, and, Of course. their more or
less prompt appearance under other
names. No wonder Count Plunkett de-
scribed the irish administration as q