The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-06-30
Skepticnl Of Success

eminent In Ireland is q purely military
occupation and that the bulk of the pop
ulation is organized against it,"
skeptioal Of Success
The Westminster Gazette is equally
skeptical of the success OF MacPhcrson's
reply. 1t points 10 the analogy Of the
! plCadings Of Germany Austria, and Rus
| STA to similar indictments Of their old
| regime. In spite Of THIS II adds:
The world in general has judged their
| subjects to have hcen right We shall
| answer passionately that the indictment
| is untrue but the fact that the Irish
arc in a safe OF rebellion will be taken
! BY the outside world as suicient proof"
When the same journals pass from
| MACPHERSON to tho Irish problem their
| settlement the Westminster Gazette
| says;
| meet the case. and that is the settlement
of the Irish problem. or at least an
| honest attempt to settle il on lines
which viii convince our neighbors that
We have done everything in our power
and everything compatible within our
| security and existence TO satisfy the
| Irish demand.
! The most illuminating passage Of all.
! however. is tn" following in tho Times:
| ireland is not the international QucS-
! tion in the sense OF Frank i. Walsh and
l his friends. but II is the greatest of all
| questions for thos" who think Of Eng
lands position in the world. Ireland ia
our one failure. If we had succeeded
| in Ireland as elsewhere the increment OF
power and loyalty at the center Nhcr"
| IL is most valuable would have equaleG
| everything We gained by the growth OF
our Self-governing dominionS. We have
been unweaving in ireland the web of
power as fast as We have been spinning
1t elsewhere. At this moment a solution
! of the Irish question, which would turn
| Irishmen into friends. would in its effect
| ON nOEitiOn in rho world he aOmiNH-
| LEM of another year of victory. like
! 1851
! Meantime the Same old processes OF
prosecutions and raids on private houses
and long sentences by COurts-martial go
| as merrily on ms II nothing occurred. |
! find in the Irish papers column or two
| every day Of such incidents as these:
| Countess MarckicvisZ comes into tn"
coercion court looking pale and worn
and finds inside and out armed police
and soldiers wearing trench he mets And
| armed men in twenty large motor lorrics
and when sentenced 10 four months i'm
| yrisonmcnt answers by calling for
| cheers for the Irish republic. They are
| heartily responded 10.
Airplanes passing at dawn over Liner
| lex and Tippcrary catch sight Of peas
ants they suspect, while soldiers on mo-
! tor bicycles hurry 10 and fro. Men arc
rushed from their beds between md
| 5 o'clock by the military in quest of
wounded men suspected Of taking part
| in the recent encounter to release a priS-
! oner and are stripped Of all their clothes.
| At least two or three thousand soldiers
arc employed in this operation. Young
| girls in County Kerry were sent to gaol
simply for selling flags.
Erskine Childers. son Of tho once
| prominent English cabinet minister.
tears the mask under which MACPHERSON
tries 10 hide such regime as purely
| normal and just what would happen II
| tho troops were in England or America.
1.-THE character OF this reply said
Childers. rs such as 10 dlscr"dtt thu
whole MACPHERSON statement. 1t can
! only bc intended for a public completely
| ignorant OF the facts. The army is on
war footing.
"Dublncrs. in common with citizens
Of other towns. arc usrd to tho familiar
! spectacle Of troops marching about with
| trench helmets and fixed bayoncis.
! Tanks may nc n normal part .of tho
| equipment OF England and among out
| American allies. hui arc not used there
as they were in Limerick in April last
as part of military Gordon in active
military operations designed to prevent
/ all access to or from tho city. The
same with armOrni cars.
Comparison is Drawn.
| I'm sGlf-g"Scrncd countries they do
| not patrof the streets Of towns as they
do on occasions patrol IN" streets Of
| Dublin and other Irish cities in order 10
| aid tho police in times Of public excite
mcnt. due 10 the suppression in ono
| FORM or another of a national movement.
\ machine gun is normal military
| wca pom. hut is not Il normal civilian
| weapon. II ia not normal to SGT up
! machine-Eun post complete with steel
easement and loOpholcs and attendant
! gunncrS opposite and within 100 yards
| Of tho headquarters Of q labor executive
| with tho muzzlcs trained to command
| tho entrance to tho building.
| "Airnlancs arc certainly a normal ac
| ccsSion to armies. but In ireland. as
! published reports in newspapers show.
| they arc used for active military pur-
| poses in connection with searches and
| raids"
! .1d"rs winds up with this passage.
! which | adopt rs tho host reply to tho
| Ma"Phcrson whole dishonest piece Of
| mako hclcvc defense:
at is useless to labor tho point fur
| th.r What is tho use Of DENYING that
n largo army in ireland is definitely an
| army Of OCCUPATION. with duties Of &C
| tive repression demanding highly equip
! ped forces on II war footing" cYt. in
! object. MACPHERSON docs deny this no'o-
| rious fact. repeat that denial vitiatos
| the whole Of his reply"
| Personally | adopt every word Of this
| Indictment nv an Englishman as an alb
| Solutc truthful piCtur" Of life in Ireland
| under tho MACPHERSON regime.