The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
The Ulster Argument"

The existence in Ireland of a minor ity of 20 P. C. who ---v opposed to the independence of the country has been put forward as an argument that we were not entitled Co indepen- ednce. If that argument has been ac- cepted no country in Europe that re- gained its freedom would ever be free. Carson's defiance is done in col fusion with the ruling classes of Eng land. and the game is played with such skill and bluff that the very timid people who represented the country yielded before it.
 Sir Edward Carson has invited De Valera to Ulster and promised to give him stirring Ulster welcome. Well, MT. De Valera has been in every coun- ty in Ulster, and has spoken in every county there, and he was accorded an Ulster welcome. MT. De Valera at the present time is not available for Ul- ster.
 Carson A White Elephant.
 Sir. E. Carson was available two months ago when his candidate was standing for East Antrim, and that candidate sent him S. O. s. messages appealing to him to come and help, but Sir Edward stood grimly by in London. Perhaps the Ulster welcome he feared then was the kind he would wish De Valera to get.
 Sir F. Carson is an able, and a dan gerous man, in a sense. His brief, as a political one for Ulster, he used with a considerable amount of success, be- cause of the men he had to deal with. But now, those who had backed him. and financed him handsomely, found him rather a white elephant on their 
 rid of him.
 That day they found the London Times The Daily Mail" and Mir. Bonar Laws Daily Express" in r4on- don, chiding and rebuking Sir Ed ward because there was something much more important to England now than Sir E. Carson, or his followers in Ulster. It is the help from the U. s. of America. Sir E. Carson has said although he knew the future of the world depended upon the goodwill of America towards England, still he would not allow that to sway him, the position between England and America is this.
 At the present time the English sovereign is worth only 4 dollars and 49 cents in New York, and is falling dafly---in other words the sovereign, WnlCn was the universal standard has been supplanted by the almighty dol lar, and that dollar has pecome the standard.
 No Anglo-AInerican Alliance.
 Although they shipped about ten millions of gold about a fortnight ago from England out of the small amount left, they have not been ena- bled to rectify that exchange.
 The American 1 D. c. loan stands to- day at 1O7, while the English D. c. loan commands 80. That is a measure for England's defeat and failure, and her absolute dependence on America. She must have America's goodwill, and Americas help, or she disappears as a great power just as Holland dis appeared 200 years ago.
 The English Government under stands this very weT anc as srr. Garvin, of the Observer for eight years supplied the Tories with their policy---quite plainly admitted recently that they had to deal, not with that 75O,OOO, now useless in America, to them, in Ulster, but with the people with the power of 15 mil lions in America.
 He Will I}o Sold. This is a thing I can say without re- vealing a great political secret, that the Anglo-American alliance they are | looking for will never be seen on this earth while Ireland is governed as England governs her now.