Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-07
RULER Of IRISH
CALLED UPON THE
CARPET BY BOSS
Chief Secretary to Explain to
Lloyd George, it Is Believed,
Why He Made F rank Confess
sion of British Oppression,
BY James NJ. TuOhy.
Copyright, 1919 by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York World.)
Especial Gable DispatCh.O J


London, July G.-The interview
which Ian MACPHERSON, chief secre-
tary for Ireland. gave to me for the
Journal has created a sensation in
political quarters here and in Ireland
having been cabled IN full to the Lon
don Times and. in part. to other i'm
portant newspapers.
His bland confession of a policy of
systematic oppression exclusively di-
rected against the majority of the
Irish people has shocked the English
sense of ministerial propriety-that is,
the confession, not the thing itself
which, of course, has been an accept
ed commonplace of Irish government.
So Chief Secretary MACPHERSON has
suddenly come to London, doubtless to
explain to Premier Lloyd George how
he allowed himself officially TO ghe
the game away.
Anti-Irish Work In America.
1t must be said that Secretary Mac
Pherson spoke with perfect frankness,
and seemed quite obliyious or the fact
that his admissions were utterly de-
structive of all the pretensons to the
fair or Just treatment of ireland on
which British prop ganda has been
spending, and is spe ding. millions to
set up for deception of the American
people. For while, in suddenly en-
lightened circles here, the idea of
dominion home rule for Ireland is be-
ing discussed, anti-Irish propaganda
in America is more active and less
sCrupulous than ever.
1t can be stated. not without fear of
contradiction but without fear of dis
proof, that British propaganda agents
have been clamoring for evidence of
Catholic intolerance" to be used in
the United States to stir up hostile
feeling against Ireland. There is evi-
dence in some newspaper Correspon-
dence from America, published in
London that this campaign is already
afoot, while in Ireland Dublin Castle
agents are feverishly worKing-and
it is no easy work-to try TO rake up
horrible examples for the purposes Of
British propaganda in America.
Catholics Elect IL Protestant.
I happened upon an up-to- date, typ
ical instance of intolerance when in
Ireland the other day, of which |
make a present TO the British anti
lTlSll pIopdSHHud dEtHtS Ill lIS bulttu
States and elsewhere.
The nationalsts Of East Cork pre-
sented a motor car to Captain Done
Ian last week in acknowledgment Of
his services as their representative in
parliament for over twenty-five years,
He said:
"I am, indeed. a shocking example
of Catholic intolerance. for not only
were the priests and the people of
East Cork cruel enough to return me
time after time to represent them in
the British parliament. but they have
now filled my cup of persecution to
the brim."
Captain Donean is only one of
many Protestants returned to parlia-
ment by constituencies almost eXclu-
sively Catholic, and when the British
propaganda agents come along to tell
American PrOtestants of catholic
intolerance" they should be asked
how many Catholics have Protestant
constituencies in the north ever re-
turned to parliament.
Victims of British System.
It is an ungrateful task to raise this
question of intolerance, but Irish
Catholics have nothing to fear from
it, and it is necessary to raise it now
to warn Americans against the effort
to mislead them in regard to Ireland.
Irish Protestants are not to blame
for the state of things in Ulster. es-
pecialIy in Belfast. They have been
the victims of the British system,
which always has been to set them
against their Catholic fellow country
men by placing them on a pedestal
while treating the Catholic majority
as only fit objects for police rule.
That system is in full operation in
Ireland today, and the best answer
that can be made to the charge of
Catholic intolerance that it has had
no effect in making Catholics intol-
Grant.