The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-11
EDICT FAILS TO
DISTURB IRISH
Sim Fein and Volunteers Be-
fleve Reaction Will Help
Them.
TIPPERARY rs TRANQUIL
Military Control Of Local Ac-
tivities Sure to Restrict
Business.
TIPPERARY Is TRANQUIL
By fhe Associdted Press.

DuBIIN. July 10.-County Tipperary
and Ireland have received quietly the
proclamation of the Government
Monday declaring all Sim Feln or
ganizations and Irish Volunteers in
County Tipperary unlawful associa-
tions. The proclamation places all
local activities in Tipperary under
control of the military and prevents
all persons from entering the district
without a permit, thus restricting
business.
1t was expected in Tipperary, after
the murder of a police inspector at
Thuries, that the Government would
pursue the same policy 1t took up
after the murders in County Clare
and elsewhere. The crimes act
proclamation is a reversion to the
methods employed against the Ma
tional League in Parnell's time.
Under the terms OF the proclamation
membership In the various prohibited Or
ganizations becomes criminal offence
and meetings of those bodies and the
publication of the reports of their pro-
ceedings become Illegal. The proclama-
tion. In actually. substitutes the civil
tribunal constituted BY the act OF 1887
for the military courts-martial held
under the defence OF the realm act.
See Government Policy.
1t is taken in some quarters to point
to the policy to be pursued by the Gov
ernment when the defence of the realm
act is no longer in operation. The or
EanlZatlOnR nTnhihIfaH
but In Tipperary, although the Lord
Lieutenant has the power to extend the
proclamation, which is looked upon as a
possibility In some quarters.
In Irish political circles in Dublin not
favorable TO the Government 1t Is be-
lieved the proclamation Is likely to have
the effect Of consolidating popular feel
the situation more unfavorabie for an
impartial consideration of any self-gov-
ernment proposals.
The Sim Feiners who repudiate all
suggestions of compromise or negotiation
| or home rule and are holding out for an
Independent republic. welcome the proc
lamstion as assisting their policy.
Tne Ulster party is urging that the
| proclamation be extended to the rest
OF Ireland. and will decide at the forth
| coming Orange celebrations upon a de-
mand for repeal of the Home Rule act
| ana the maintenance OF the union as
| essential for the preservation Of their
| liberties and the security Of the British
! Empire. This Is a reversion to their
former position, departed from tempo
Tarly when the Ulsterites agreed to
home rule for the rest OF Ireland pro-
! Tding that the six northeastern coun-
| ties would be excluded.
The southern UnionIsts, who at their
convention recently showed willingness
to compromise, are assuming an atti-
| tude similar TO the Ulsterites against
! home rule. The vacancy In the repre-
| sentation of Trinity College, II Is said,
| will be Allied by the election of William
Jellett, who organized the southern
| Untonists against those who were will
ing to come to terms on homo rule.
Would Resent Appeal.
The homo rule act at present on the
statute books Is regarded as a national
| asset, obliging the Government to deal
with the question, and Its repeal, It Is
| held generally. would he resented by all
except the extreme Sim Feiners. Ac-
! cordtng TO the terms of the suspension
act enacted shortly after the war be-
| gan home rule must come into OPERA
tion not later than six months from the
| end OF the war.
In political circles the belief Is in
creasing that the Government at Dublin
Castle will seek to gain time in which
/ to arrange a settlement by providing
for the continued operation OF the sus-
! pension act and by the appointment of
a commission of inquiry with special
reference to the possibility OF whether
such a settlement might fit in with a
scheme OF liberalization designed for the
entire United Kingdom. ireland under
such a scheme would be on the same
! footing as Scotland and Wales. but with
| the possibility that Ulster might be cre-
ated a separate federal unit.
| II is not believed that such a policy
! would gain mich popular support in
! Ireland. The Moderates. who formerly
favored II, generally have become iden-
tined with the new Irish Dominion
| League under the leadership OF Sir Hor-
ace Plunkett The Irish Center party.
| which was established to advocate a
scheme Of liberalization within Ireland
with a parlia ament for each province. has
| been dissolved. and the leaders have
asked the members to support Sir Horace
Plunkett's plan.