The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-20
I IeiSHH {IRRffaRee IS Is
| FIGHT TO FINISH
SAYS MACNE|Ll
Declares Irish People
United in Cause for
Freedom.
WORTH WAITING
Great Britain's Policy in
Past Not Wise Is
the Belief of
Leader.
WORTH WAITING

Feincrs, counting on International
support and help from America
shall unswcrvtngly continue the
struggle for independence until
victory Is won. Britain must
either weigh us down or we must
weigh her down."
This statement was made by
Professor AIacNeill, president of
the national university at Dublin
and regarded as the intellectual
head OF the Sim Fcin movement,
In the course OF an exclusive in
tervfcw with the Dublin CORE
spondent Of tho Morning Post.
Professor MacNeili has just been
released from an English prison.
As he sat talking on the COL
lego campus 1t was difficult TO
relAizc. says the correspondent.
that this mfld-manncred. kind
eyed. courtly gentleman was
within an Acc Of being shot as a
rehai ns the 1919 uprising. 1t
was he who issued the counter
mandtng order to the Irish VOL
unteers on that Hateful Easter
Sunday. thus preventing the re
bellion from reaching greater pro-
portions than II did.
IF II u case OF going on M
we have been doing" said he.
Two believe that IL Britain has
the strength ON her side We have
toughness on ours. We arc I'm
earnest, especially the younger
men, who suys:
1--WE remember nothing be-
fore the war;
II do not believe in threatening o
of that kind That's oni,
rhetoric. We want peace but ~
count on reaching the end we have ii
view
Before very ionge" asked the In
IT am not going to prophesy l al
ways tell people. especially younl
folks, that good things are worth
waiting for. We want peace as muc'
as any country wants it. Our expert
ence shows we cannot get peace b.
acQuiescence. do not think Eng
lands policy toward us In the past ha
been wise In any way. She has un
doubtediy weakened us for the las
seventy-eight years.
-Half Of our population has disap
peared and that hasn't happened I.
any other country of Europe. no mat
ter how badly misEoverned.
lover a great part of our countr
our industries have disappeared wit
practically nothing left but agricu
.4ure4 EnasenA >hae sytTee special 81
to her own industries a
the expense Of ours. Absentee land
lordism. land speculation. shippin
restrictions and other reasons hav
contributed to our Industrial decline
The most hopeless thing Is to be gov
erned by the popular government .
another country.
THE English idea clearly is this
this Is necessary for her security.
do not think II q good reason. eve
for her I think she has not game
by the result of her government
Ireland, for we would have double
our population but for her method
and 1t would be better for her, and |
that population were friendly to he
II would BE- Z far greater security
her than 4 military occupation Z
ireland.
Tho people are now more tina
ever united and have a clearer III
derstanding than ever Of politics an
Of their purposes. Their determina
ton h stronger, and they are moi
prepared to make sacrifices than b.
fore. Terms OF imprisonment ~
cheerfully regarded as Casualties
the struggle.
The English machinery for r,
pressing w 20 far has not succeedAt
and We will continue to fight on
victory"