South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-12-14

"a policeman under the impression
that they are dealing a deadly blow
az the British empire. such con-
spiratOrs are found everywhere
/ among romantic poseurs Simon
, Tappertit was an Englishman; and
+ q have known men who held month
F Iy meetings Of Leagues OF the Pro-
.etariats Of the World three or four
strong. throughout the years when
EnEiand's prosperity was said by
Gladstone 20 be increasing by leaps
and bounds with presidents. min
ute books registers OF tyrants 10 be
exterminated Cafter the taste of
Madame Defarge), and all complete.
The number OF branches Of the in
ternatiOnal formed in France in the
eighteen sixties by the police agents
OF Napoleon III must have filled the
castle with envy: and the climaxes.
when every police agent threw of
his wig and, seeing the other po-
lice agent. acclaimed. "I am Hawk
shaw, the detective, must have been
thrilling These conspiracies Of
playboys may win promotion for
their promoters. and perhaps make
castle officials feel clever: but they
are only child's play; the really
formidable conspiracy is the con-
Z spiracy Of the whole nation, acting
spontaneously without brotherhoods
or oaths or indictable evidence OF
any kind Such a conspiracy seems
20 be as completely realized in Ire
land at present as it never can be
E-f -F
sibility
The government calls our atten-
ton 10 10 Sim Feiners in handouts.
and cries melodramatically. BE
ware" We call their attention TO
a million Sim Feiners not in hand
cuffs nor likely 20 be, and cry less
impressively but more sensibly, Get
out"
Not Good for Business.
It is a situation not good for bust
ness. TO say the least No man with
a business scheme in hand feels
sure either that Sim Fein will let
him carry il out, or, if he squares
Sim Fein. that the military author
tiles will let him carry it out Bust
ness schemes cannot easily be hid
den either from the police or the
people and they can be both pro-
claimed and boycotted. He who at
tempts to do anything out of the
beaten track is as likely as not TO be
suspected by the castle Of being
Sim Feiner, and by Sim Fein of be
ing IAN eXterminator Of the Irish
race"
What are the business men of Ire
land going TO do about it?
They need law and order, security
for reasonably established eXpecta-
ton. free markets. free transit. nor
NAL neighborliness.
The castle government is utterly
unable to give these things to them.
Sim Fein chuck'es over their un-
certainty The castle does not un-
Cerstand their position. being TOO
gentlemarly TO have any knowledge
of business. Things are going from
bad to worse; yet the business men
do not wake up; political ireland is
a sort of flaming corona with an
eclipsed center
1t seems silly. does ii not?
VIII our chamber Of commerce be
good enough 20 think il over from
the strictly business point of view =?
If they are satisfied, there is moth
ing more TO be said as far as they
are concerned If not, had they not
better make themselves felt n lit
tle2
The Word "DcvoIution.'
There is at first sight something
20 be said for the blessed word de-
vOlution. In the London house Of
commons when YOU want TO do any
thing, YOU must persuade the lynn
phatic majority that YOU are not
doing it. And if. as is more often
the case, YOU want 10 avoid doing
anything YOU must persuade the
mercur.al minority thct you are do
ing IT, Thus, when it at last be
came evident TO the more intelligent
unionists that home rule was newt
able, they had 10 find a plausible
disguise for il. As n measure of
satisfaction for Irish national senti-
ment it would have provoked the
unicnists TO die in the last ditch (in
the persons of their agents and Of
the royal Irish consta bulary and it's
military auxiliaries) sooner than
vote for IL. But as a measure of
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