The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-06-30
By T. p. o'cONNoR.
Special Cable Dispatch

Copyright 1919 by Public Ledger Co.
LONDON. June 29.-1n our domestic
politics the Irish banshee not only
stalks across the stage. but fills its
every inch. We receive in London pa
pers full Of reports and debates. Your
senate correspondents send lengthy tele-
grams and the Times continues its now
tremendous campaign on the immediate
large settlement of tho Irish problem
while Premier AsQuith puts IN FIRST
place his new campaign among the LID
erals against the Lloyd George govern
ment.
So incessant and fierce Is this new
cyclone in favor Of self government that
everybody feels VIC are again approach
ing one Of the many crises. That whelh-
or it be by this man or that. the ques-
tim has been tackled and al once ana
boldly. II it were not for the grave
anxiety still as TO Germany and peace
Lloyd George would be compelled TO re-
turn Immediately TO London and state
his irish policy.
Lloyd-George Attacked.
Reactionary journals like the Morning
Post cannot resist utilizing the whole in
cident for an attack on Lloyd George az
the real author OF all the trouble IN
ireland. 1t says:
ITO reproach our enemies Is futile
The. culprit in this sorry business u.s.
from the British point OF view, inc
prime minister, who knowing the record
Of these Irish-Amcrican mischief max
ers, went out Of his way to facilitate
their visit TO Ireland.
The passage from the Frank Walsh in
dictment. where he turns the tables on
Lloyd George by putting on him tho re-
10 ri
traordinarily clever move and Irish con-
stitutionalists. no by treachery and folly
LLOYD George destroyed. are human
enough to look with satisfaction and
amusement on the difficulties he has
created for himself by substituting Sim
Fein for constitutional opposition.
must mention as another extraordi-
nary development the now virtually uni
versal conviction that things cannot go
on as they are in Ireland. Even the
Morning Post shows for the first time
signs Of grace and realization or inc
immense peril ireland creates in Its re-
lations with England and America.
Its hands-off attitude disappears even
in this passage:
Upon the cordial working together of
America and England depends the secur-
ity Of the future and We in this country
can affirm that no consideration or
party politics would be allowed to I'M
peril that understanding.
More significant than such admissions
are the vehement pleadings Of all Brit
ish correspondents in America 10 iheir
countrymcn at home. They take notice
of the intensity and universally OF the
movement against England which re-
fueal Of Ireland's demands creates and
no correspondent makes his pleas more
vehemently than the able Washington
correspondent OF the Morning Post IT.
self. He writes:
1T is a shock and keen disappoint-
ment to the majority Of Englishmen
that tho war and alliance that WAS &C.
mented by blood have brought only mis-
understandings and i'll will. Instead OF
a lasting friendship we had right to
expect. To pretend. as IL conveniently
assumed in certain quarters that the
passage Of the Irish resolution and other
evidences Of antagonism need not be
taken seriously and can be lightly dis
missed as only move or american
ploitics. Is childish"
IelatIong Are Very Strained.
The relations. says the same CORE
spondent, at this time are more strained
and more i'll feeling prevails than 1er
years past. The correspondent OF the
Times is even more explicit. saying
among other things that Sir Edward
Carson's insults to American statesmen
are lust the best means of increasing