The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-12-30
Plan Under Which England
Can Get Peace With Ireland
|untess Markiewicz Gives
| Out Interview on Irish
Republic.
EFUsED TO TAKE OATH
be Explains Why She Gould
mot Do This as Member of
English Parliament.
(BY DANIEL O'CONNELL.)

z I. N. S.)-"If England has wis.,
pm she will see that the only way
make lasting peace with Ireland,
bat will give her an ally instead of
% enemy on her western flank, is to
Fithdraw her armies and recognize
be Irish republic. If, -on the con-
fary, she continues her present pol
ey of force and fraud, we shall suc-
BED in spite of her,"
4 This declaration was made today
v Countess Markieficz, one of the
hief leaders of the Sim Fein and
he first woman elected to the Brit
bh house of commons. It was through
he refusal of the countess to take
Yer seat that the honor Of being the
rst woman to sit in parliament fell
, Viscountess Astor. Countess Mar
iewicz is in hiding and it was only
3fter pledge was given that her
hereabouts would be kept secret
bat she consented to talk. Upon
ENG asked why she had refused to
d in the house of commons, she
bid:
a Reasons for Refusal OF Seat.
my reason for refusing to take my
Eat after being the first woman
ected TO parliament rs a simple one.
irst and foremost, / would never
IKE a false oath nor swear fealty to
ne crown that tyrannized over my
&buntry, and against which every
moral and physical force in my whole
eing is in rebellion and warfare.
IA IF you ask me why | do not go
md refuse to take oath, it is because
III would consider that course abso-
Btely futile. Neither / nor my col
&agues nor the people whom i rep
|<esent have considered such course
10 th a moments discussion. 1t
ould not lead to anything except
WDsence from my country, where we
IRE all wanted and where there is SO
much to be done.
Proud of Their Faith.
IA AT the last general election-one
Year ago this month--the people OF
II. Patrick's division of Dublin de-
&ided, in unison with the majority OF
HE people of Ireland, that they would
DO longer. send representative to a
lDreign parliament to assist the en-
.&my in governing Ireland. | was un-
|able to give promises or to make
'piedges, being imprisoned in an Eng
1ish Jail at the time. An enamored
majority honored me with their votes
knowing that | was absolutely in ac-
Cord with their ideas and aspirations
pnd believing me to be one of the
crowd that was not afraid to stand
Openly for the Irish republic in ar
assembly in Ireland, no matter what
the cost l felt proud of their faitf
In me and prouder still the day
stook my seat in Dali Eireann (tht
sSinn Fein parliament as the one
woman elected to the first parliament
kof the Irish republic by the people o
Hreland.
u "The members of the Irish parlia,
ment. following their most sacred as
zpirations and in obedience to the will
}Df the people of Ireland, are now en-
#deavoring to establish. the Irish re
public on a firm and solid basis b.
EVERY means in their power. The.
1are setting about this in the follow
Eng way:
n Il. BY establishing the necessar,
Xmachinery by which a country /
governed and through which tn
Functions nationally and information
kally operate it.
n "2. Raising the republics loal
Ito meet national expenditures.
49, Establishing relationship wit
foreign countries by appointing Iris
&consuls to reside in those countrie
and organizing a direct trade plyin
between Irish ports and the ports O
other nations.
-. Making researches as to tn
possible development of all the re
sources of Ireland, with the object G
organizing agriculture, fisheries. in
dustries, and so on, for the benefi
OF the people.
But before and above all else W
seek the withdrawal of the Brits
army of occupation and the recognition
of the Irish republic.
I'VE rejoice in the good an
cooperation of the Irish people unde
the most cruel and ceaseless provoca
ton and precautions. They are show
ing self-control and forbearance un
parallelled in history. With its usus
consistent hypocrisy, the British gov
ernment is inspiring newspaper re
ports that suggest a liberal measur
of home rule while daily the chains ar
being riveted tighter. The educatio
bill. an absolute denial OF the rights c
!. Irish parents to a voice in the educa
Y tion of their children, is proof of thi:
All Ireland is behind the bishops |
their condemnation of it. This
surely a curious bill to be put for
ward at the time when Premier Lloy
George is devising a scheme for tn
self-government of Ireland.
1.-The motor permit order is devise
for the economical ruin of bushes
men with republican ideas. A garag
in Dublin was wrecked by the polio
when he resisted and the owners dc
priyed of their means of livelihood.
Prohibition of Holding Fairs.
"The prohibition of the holding
fairs is a measure in favor of Englis
profiteers. But our people are wide
awake and understand their positic
and their needs so when we are al
roster others step In and MI up u
gaps left in the ranks. The Irish pal
lament is meeting and will continue
meet in spite of the police. spies ar
machine guns.
"I will again emphasize that ol
principles never alolw us to deny u
sovereign rights of the Irish people !
swearing allegiance to foreign col
aueror. or by takine part in the pr
ceedings of an alien parliament al
assisting that parliament to keep o.
country in subiection. In our IL
termination we are fortified in the col
viction that our wav is the only WI
TO free our country
1t was at this point that the counte
declared that the only way Tor I'm
land 10 make lasting peace with 1r
land'' would be to withdraw the arr1i
and recognize the Irish republic. Ell
sz1hasizing her words with viforous ge
turas she continued:
"The spiritual forces in Ireland ma
withstood oil the powers or evil :
centuries GenPrat ton after generatl
th,s same snirit has manifested itse
Nc, have offered their lives in IRELAND