Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-08
SAYS CARSON IS
INFLUENCED BY
BRITISH GAME
President Of Irish Republic
Says Sir Edward is Being
Used as Tool to MiSrepreSent
Ireland'S Position,

ESPECIAL coRsEsPohpEHCE TO MORNING JOURNAL
New York, Sept. 6.-Eamonn de
Valera, who is campaigning in this
country as the duly elected president
of the Irish republic, gave out state
ment yesterday in connection with the
movement for reorganization of the
Ulster volunteers leld by Sir Edward
Carson. The Irish leader said in part;
The Carson campaign is again
starting. to order, as usual-the order
of the British cabinet, which Carson
pops into and out of according as
occasion requires. He is out once
more to relieve the British govern
n tnt from its difficulties and 81
far as he can, to furnish them with
a proteXt for incorporating the
true position of Ireland The world
must again be made TO ring with IT,
cry that the difficulty in Ireland IS
not that England forcibly occupies 1t
with her troops against the viii OF the
Irish people, but that The irish cannot
agree among themselves
British Support Minority.
"The minority in Ireland are to re-
Ceive an importance and privilege
which no other minority is granted.
Cne-fifth of the population of 1relan
have to be maintained in position
of ascendancy over the rest IF the
people of Ireland. Why2 Because 1t
is TO England's interest. Were 1t not
to Frglands interest to maintain the
minority in this position it would
never be heard of.
THE Irish people do not ask Eng
land to settle the minority question In
ireland. The people of Ireland are
nf 1pinv thnt them
selves. All the people of Ireland want
is that the British forces of occupa-
ton leave the country. They are in
the country purely for British inter-
ests.
"The British government sustains
Carson because it IS to the govern
ments interest that~he should be sus-
tanned. They. claim him as, and he
claims himself to be. 1oyalist.' He
processes to acknowledge the suprem-
acv of British law. and this profess
sion entities him to set British law
at defiance whenever he chooses.
But it would be mistake to think
that he is a traitor or that either he
or the British government Is incon-
sistent. This defiance of British law
nv Carson is the purest act of loyalty
to the British government that ne
could perform, and because he IS
serving Britain it would be unjust TO
expect that Britain would seriously
interfere with him. Seeing that Is is
to the benefit of the British govern
ment that British law should be de-
fled when that defiance enables then,
to evade acts they do not want to en-
force il is indeed 'unthinkable' that
those who confer this benefit upon
them should he proceeded against as
traitors to Britain.
Carson VIII Be Rewarded.
"As long as Carson works In the IN
terests of the British government Car
son will be immune. More than that,
he will be once again richly rewarded
for his timely services.
"AIl that is necessary for the people
of America and of the world to know
is that only 30S,000 out of total OF
100000 votes cast in the general
elections of last December were cast
for union with England, bare 20
per cent of the population, FAR less
than the minorties in Poland, Czecho-
Sloyakia and elsewhere, and less IN
numbers than were the loyalists and
tories who, like Carson is doing now,
supported George III. against WASH
ington in 1776.
"Ireland is not ascking England to
coerce this minority with British
bavonets. All Ireland asks England
to do is to leave Ireland for 1rishmen'
They will have no more difficulty IN
adjusting their differences than have
Americans, once the power whose in
terest it is to promote these differ
ences has departed"