The Irish standard., 1919-08-23


order to procure justice and fair dealing. But the
weapon should not be used unless the circumstances
require it, and until every other of compos.
ing industrial troubles have been exhausted.
LLOYD GEORGE SEES DOUBLE IN
Lloyd Georges latest contribution to the settle
ment OF the Irish difficulty is pitably weak and
habby to indicate that the Janus faced British
premier is backed to the wall, and is utterly lacking
scrutiny of truth and analysis The difficulty" he
states is that there two nations" in Ireland
The Is per cent minority that is making such frantic
efforts to assert its will as against that of the
other Is per cent of the people is thus given the
status of separate nation" |
The tail of the dog, though having certain rights
and privileges as an appurtenance of the whole
animal Lloyd George apprehends to be an entirely
pendent properly challenges the Premier to christen
the nation which he has discovered in Ireland,
saying:
what to call the inhabitants of the four
counties which return Unionist representation? |
They resent being called English Scotch and Mr..
| Lloyd George refuses to call them Irish AS the |
hyphenated title seems to be popular with new
nations elsewhere suggest Orango-Ll Georgi-
axis or Carso-Slavs."
The acrobatic premier also makes the wonderful 1,
discovery that there is difference of religion in
Ireland, and this fact is made part of his defense
for Withholding a settlement of the Irish diff
ment of the problem may be expected until all of
the people have come to adopt the same religious
beliefs? The consistency of the prener's argument
is apparent when we remember that he is record
as being in favor of the exclusion of six counties
in the province of Ulster from the Home Rule
scheme, thus setting up Pale in Ireland in
these modern days Of religious and political free
dom. Outside the city of Belfast, it should be
noted, that the Catholics and Protestants in the
Province about equal, the total number of the
former being 690816 and of the latter 69l 1872. In
Belfast the city is about one-third Catholic, the
; total number being 93,l62 while the Protestants
junction about the rights of these three quarters
of million of Catholics and would dragon them
into the new nation" which he has so OPPORTUNITY
discovered i'll the northern Province.
f. The pre1ner's "two-nation" theory is lament
ably puere defense of Britains incompetency and
failures in Ireland. 1t amounts voluntary con-
fesslon OF bankruptcy in statesmanshp and ability
to cope with the situation It is entirely at variance
S with the views of able Englishn1en like former
Y Premier Asquith, Lord Beaconsfeld, Gladstone and
S Winston Churchill Mr.. Asquith said in 1872 II
" have always maintained and maintain as strongly
today that Ireland is nation not two nations, but
e one nation.
r Mr.. Churchill said in 1912:
Whatever listers right may be, it cannot stand
# in the way of the whole of the of Ireland Half
e province cannot impose permanent veto on a
IS nation half province cannot ObSruct forever the
n reconciliation between British and Irish democrat
ces and deny all satisfaction to the united wish Of
If the British Empire"
e Lloyd Georges resort to such piece of petit
logging is in his "two nations" suggestion
is we'll calculated therefore, to excite the contempt
n of all who possess superficial knowledge o.
1t Irish affairs. 1t is also we'll calculated to arouse
suspicion in America of the good faith of the British
e leader. Does he think Americans are so stupid OF
g so ill-informed not to be able to size up ane
h |appraise at its true value his pffle about "tws
e. nations" in Ireland? Doth he expect Americans tt
swallow statement that is contradictory of geog
N raphy, history, ethnology arithmetic, and even
r the presidents of the best British statesmen?
le Incdently the pusillanmous contention of Lloyt
to George will reveal to interesting side-ligh
IN upon the character of statesman, with whom i
a we enter the League of Nations hereafter
al to have more intimate contact and dealings
I'd Can Americans have any confidence in the sin
Of cerity and good conscience of politician who
of such blatant nonsense serious defense of hi
IN failure to handle capably and fairly the Irisl
a TROUBLES, and how does his Carsonesque attitud
s. square with the American ideals of democracy an,
religious liberation? Before tie up to the Leag
as proposition is it not well to give serious
be sideration to these questions?
d, NEW PROOF OF FRANKL1Ns PLEDGE II
nd IRELAND.
rt Through the investigations of Michael J. O'Brier
nj who has spent more than of years in th
lie lstudy of Irish participation in the early history
al America, letter written by BENJAMIN Franks
has