Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-23
LATEST ATTEMPT
To PACIFY IRISH
IS CALLED STUPID
Ulster Orange Leaders Are
Declared to Be Playing P re-
mier'S Game by Showing
Concern Over Situation,
BY James NJ. Tuohy.
(Staff Correspondent of the Albu-
querdue Journal and the New York
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(Staff Correspondent of the Albu-
querdue Journal and the New York
WORLDLY
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co
CThe New York World.1
Especial cable Dispatch to the World)
London, Oct 22.-Prem1er Lloyd
Georges latest pretense of a desire to
settle the home rule question is pro-
ceeding according to plan Having
appointed a cabinet committee in Lon
don consisting of two classes of mem
bers, one class knowing nothing Of
Ireland and the other having been
prominent in bitter opposition to
every project for Irish reform, the
premier has now sent Lord Chancel-
lor Birkenhead to visit the chief sec
rotary for a few days in Dublin, os-
tensibly to ascertain what ireland
wishes
Lord Birkenhead was formerly At
torney General +. f. Smith who act
ed as Sir Edward Carson's galloper in
Ulster In order to bring him into
touch with true Irish feeling, Niceroy
French invited him to a dinner party,
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sentatives of Carsonism, together with
four Irish supreme court judges and
L. M. Healy.
This was a mistake for which Pre-
mier Lloyd George has himself to
blame, for thereafter no representa-
tive of the Sim Fein or of national
ism, however moderate, would COM
promise his position before the Irish
people by meeting any emissary of
his because of the firm conviction that
to do so would be to court the fate of
the nationalist leaders who had for
merly trusted him.
Readers of The World will soon
have opportunity to judge whether
this attitude is not perfectly natural
and justifiable.
In order to provide a proper atmo-
sphere for Lord Birkenhead's vice
regal dinner Dublin castle that morn
ing issued a ukase to suppress every
popular organization in Dublin, and
to prohibit all meetings of such
bodies, public or private; in fact, for
bidding public meetings of every po-
litcal tinge, except the Carsonite
meetings, for which the necessary
police permit can always be obtained.
AS the premier knows perfectly
web what ireland wishes and what
alone will be accepted. the Rirken-
head mission is regarded in Ireland
as merely part of the British prop
uganda to impress Americans with
Rrftain's supposed anxiety to find q
solution of the Irish problem.
The fact that after forty years o.
incessant discussion such a piece Of
polical eamouflage should be at
tempted is considered by Irishmer
stupid as we'll as impudent. Tho
Ulster Orange leaders are playing
their part in the premier'5 game by
processing to be deeply concerned
because ministers like Walter Long
who had pledged themselves irrev.
oeably against home rule, are nov
apparently participating in the prepa-
ration of a home rule bill.
But the majority of the Irish peo
pie, who can see clearly through thes.
artful lodges, place those lates
| British professions to settle the Irisf
/ question side by side with the act
of coercion, which are daily increas
ing in sayagery and injustice, thel
| have of Englands intentions ant
spirit. The people are drawing thu
| only possible conclusion.
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