Republican farmer., 1919-08-22
SHIN FEN LEADER SAYS CARSON
 IS NOT ULSTER REPRESENTATIVE
The Ulster "Argument.-

DC CAooSE
 The existence in Ireland of a minor ity of 20 p. c. who ---v opposed to the independence of the country has been put forward as an argument that we were not entitled to indepen- ednce. If that argument has been ac- cepted no country in Europe that re- gained its freedom would ever bs free. Carson's defiance is done in col fusion with the ruling classes of Eng land, and the game is played with such skill and bluff that the very timid people who represented the country yielded before 1t.
 Sir Edward Carson has invited De Valera to Ulster and promised to give him stirring Ulster welcome. We'll, MT. De Valera has been in every coun- ty in Ulster. and has spoken in every county there, and he was accorded an Ulster welcome. Mir. De Valera at the present time is not available for Ul- ster.
 Carson A White Elephant,
 Sir. E. Carson was available two months ago when his candidate was standing for East Antrim, and that candidate sent him S. O. s. messa ges appealing to him to come and help, but Sir Edward stood grimly by in London. Perhaps the Ulster welcome he feared then was the kind he would wish De Valera to get.
 Sir E. Carson is an able and a dan gerous man, in a sense. His brief as political one for Ulster. he used with a considerable amount of success, be- cause of the men he had to deal with. But now, those who had backed him. and financed him handsomely, found F, la hands, and they are anxious to get rid of him.
 That day they found the London Times" The Daily Mail' and MT Bonar Laws Daily Express in Lon don, chiding and rebuking Sir Ed ward because there was something much more important to England now than Sir F. Carson, or his followers in Ulster. It Is the help from the U. S. of America. Sir E.. Carson has said although he knew the future of the world depended upon the goodwill of America towards England, still he would not allow that to sway him, the position between England and America is this.
 At the present time the English sovereign is worth only dollars and 49 cents in New York, and is falling daily---in other words the sovereign, which was the universal standard has been supplanted by the almighty dol lar, and that dollar has become the standard.
 No OAngIO-Amcrican Alliance.
 Although they shipped about ten millions of gold about a fortnight ago from England out of the small amount left, they have not been ena- bled to rectify that exchange.
 The American D. C. loan stands to- day at 1O7, while the English D. c. loan commands so. That is a measure for England's defeat and failure, and her absolute dependence on America. She must have Americas goodwill. and Americas help, or she disappears as a great power just as Holland dis appeared POO years ago.
 The English Government under stands this very wen, anc. as s-r. Garvin, of the "Observer'-who for eight years supplied the Tories with their policy---quite plainly admitted recently that they had to deal, not with that 75o,o0 now useless in America, to them. in Ulster, but with the people with the power of Is mill lions in America.
 He Will Be Sold. .
 
 vealing a great political secret, that the Anglo-American alliance they are looking for will never be seen on this earth while Ireland is governed as England governs her now.
 England has got to choose between Sir E. Carson and the goodwill of America, and we know England's ca pacity for making a good bargain, and I think we will find before long in the English Press the discovery that Sir E. Carson, who so long held forth as the purest type of patriot, is really a person whose vices they have only begun to find out.
 Personally, I prefer a man like Carson to any of the English politi- clans He is a straighter man, and an abler man, but they will sell him as they sold every man who stood in their way We admit the right of the people of N. E. Ulster to be Irishmen. and have the full benefits and privil- eges of an independent Ireland con- ferred upon them, but the Ulster men must, however, choose one or the other, and if they choose to stand by England, then they could take the al- formative George Washington gave to the American loyalists, when he said l:
 Any of you, Americans, who place the interests of England above the freedom and happiness of your coun- try. you can pass over to the enemy's S lines. and settle on English terri tory.
 They can have compensation If they like to go, or they can stay and accept the Irish nation.