Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-02
POLICE IN IRELAND
GQAD UNRULY- ONES
To SEEK REVENGE.
Their Oppression of the People
Gives Birth to Secret Organ
izationS Whose Members
viii Go to Any Length,
by James NJ. Tuohy.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York WORLDLY
Especial Gable Dispatch.)

especial cable DlSpalch.)
Dublin, July Irish attention re-
mains concentrated on the American
effort TO secure right to self-determi
nation. How far the rigorous censor
ship still prevailing permits Irish
newspapers TO publish the full facts,
| cannot say, but enough is printed to
show lrishmen that never before have
The American people been 50 profund-
Iy stirred by the conditions of British
rule in this country. nor has so active
and practical a sympathy been dis
played with lrela,.d's national de-
mand.
The reply made by liam MacPher-
son, chief secretary for ireland, to the
lrishAmercan delegation's grave ac-
cusations against the system of coer-
cion he is applying, still supplies the
theme of numerous letters published
in the press. On practically every
point which the chief secretary con-
troverted or denied he has been am
swered by specific, detailed. fully au-
thenticated statements from either ac-
tual victims Of his rule or by first
hand witnesses of the cruelties all
legged.
vengeance VII
His statement, as ! have cabled al
ready was intended for foreign con-
sumption. Here, any one who cares
to know the facts can learn them
as | have done, by visiting centers
where martial law is, or has been, in
operation by seeing the men and
women who have suffered exasperat-
Ing injustice and indignities and by
M -. IA 80 - a.. %,
the police, not the military, are inst-
gators of these acts--toward the peo-
pie.
1t will be noted that 1t is against
the police that the vengeance of what
is apparently another invinc'ble So
ciety is directed. such organizations
have been the fruit of oppression not
only in Ireland but in every country,
and no enc here believes these crimes
can be connected with the republican
movement, but only with oppression.
Today's Irish Times, the leading
unionist organ in Ireland, comment
ing on the murder of District Police
Inspector Hunt. at Thurles, on Mon
day afternoon in broad daylight and
in the midst of a crowd returning
from the races, says:
we do not believe for a moment
that all, or many, advocates. of the
republican movement to approve of
the recent murders. 1t is probable
they are the work of some small and
desperate organization. Nevertheless
the movement, through its accredii ed
leadership, has not condemne these
crimes"
The notion that if a murder of
this kind is committed the popular
party leaders are bound to come for
ward and disclaim sympathy with it,,
or responsibility for it, is one of the
oldest of unionist dialectical tricks.
1t is for the police TO catch and for
the law to convict the offenders and
If in that process it is proved that
the popular party had any association
with the crime, it is certain Dublin
castle will not hesitate to exercise its
fullest powers of punishment under
an exceptional law, which it is so mer-
cilessly employing in the country at
this moment. ..
Crime has never advanced any
cause and these crimes in Ireland, at
this line in particular, when Brit
ish rule was never so discredited
throughout the world or SO hard be-
set to maintain itself on the old lines
in this country, are crimes not only
against the laws of God, but against
the Irish cause.