The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-07
William Allen White Points Out
Political Schemes.
Wave Irish Flag Just To Dis
credit the Democrats.
MEANS WAR IN THE FUTURE
Anti-British Sentiment Spread
ing Over Country.
Kansan Creates Sensation in a
London Interview.

London, July William Allen
White has been quoted at length in
London papers on the Irish question.
Mr.. White visited Ireland as the guest
of Sir Horace -Plunkett on his way
home from the peace conference. He
is optimistic about the future, even
if there is a good deal of Drawing
among the younger nations, provided
the people of the English-speaking
countries stick together and there
ought not to be much trouble about
doing this as all of u.s. Britons. Amer
icAns, Australians, Irish, New Zea-
landers, South Africans and Cana
dams. have gone thru the infantile
diseases of a race and the world is
open to us and depends upon. US as
upon no other combination of peoples,
Mr.. White makes it clear that he
has not in mind any close political
union or special treaty, but an Eng
disappearing group that will function
automatically without force. without
intrigue, without pacts. treaties or
covenants. And IL we fail" he says.
the League of Nations fails with us.
Irish Discord an Obstacle.
But there is one serious obstacle
before us. Irish discord is the one
thing which will ALLEVIATE America
from Great Britain. Just now a strong
anti-British current is running in
American politics. The Republicans
who have recently turned tail twisters
and love to bait the British lion in
| campaign oratory have gone out
hopefully for the Irish vote. They
are thirsty souls. and are scooping up
the Irish vote while digging pits for
President Wilson. Their game is this:
They must defeat the League of Ma
lions in the American senate by prov
ing to the American people that the
! league is a British device to rule the
world. To prove that, it becomes
necessary to convince the Americans
| that Great Britain is a grasping OPP
pressor of unwilling captive peoples
The Irish situation furnishes the ex-
ample needed.
Many Irish Here. a r4-
America is filled with men and
| women of Irish blood whose traditions
are rife with Irish stories of Ireland S
wrongs. And the Americans, thus
Sim Fein fable today of a nation
struggling for freedom is the story
needed to fructify the anti-British
hearts by school histories of the in
| EQUITY of George the Third and wa
| tered by the old tale of Ireland S
wrongs. And the Americans thus
| aroused against England and persuad-
ed that England is backing the lea CUE
| Of nations for British imperial aims
may lose their heads and permit par
tfsan malice and Jealousy to defeat
| the ratification of the league in the
| American senate. If that is done, Will
son and his party are discredited for
the 1920 elections, the Republicans
| justify the slaughter of the league and
incidentally to bag the Irish vote and
the pro-German vote, and, while the
demagogues triumph, humanity viii
suffer for. with the league of nation.
abandoned English-speaking people:
will have to spend their energies II
wars and preparations for wars Tht
whole fabric of the plan to check tn,
progress of humanity is based upoI
the fiction of England as the crue
stepmother. Destroy that fiction
prove that England is not oppressinl
Ireland, and America will ratify thu
league. and, if America ratifies thu
| league, the battle is won.
Give ireland Justice.
ireland Is football in American
politics. 1t must be taken out o
american politics for the good of Ire
land and for the future peace of tn,
world. 1t is up to England to Civ,
Ireland her place as a dominion oil
equality with the other dominions.
Mr. White says Blaming Ulster will
not suffice. To give Ireland iustic,
Great Britain must be generous. w,
have won the war for Democracy ant
England must take her share of tn,
obligations of Democracy. Until thi
is done the future relations between
the United States and Great Britain
will be in doubt and the effectiveness
of the League Of Nations will therefor,
be prejudiced."
Mr.. White was the recipient of on
Of the first letters carried by Interna
uonal Airplane Post. 1t was writer
in Paris by Ray Stannard Baker an,
was delivered the same day in Lon
| don.