The Lamar register., 1920-11-10

trench helmets are noticeable at all
these operations.
There were over 5000 soldiers in
the city of Londonderry when I ar
rived there. Everywhere were to b..
seen sand-bags and barbed wire en-
tanglemeIts set up for protection, and
all soldiers wore trench helmets.
Take a night in an Irish town. AS
the citizens go to bed. the barracks
spring to life. Trucks and armour
ed cars muster in numbers. ana when
the cWfew order has emptied the
streets. the weird cavalcades issue
forth TO the attack Think of '"dr
hame being raided at dead of night
in a tank or armoured car. whose
miles away, The soldiers force
their way into the home and search
every room. In nine cases ou; IF ten
the raids prove groundless and fruit
less and mistake. Women have be-
come prostrated by these raids and
are nervous wrecks.
What right has England to tor
ment and demoralize Ireland? 1t is
shameful course, and the more
shameful in that England processes
to have fought five years for the lib
erty of Oppressed nations.
Political leaders, intellectuals.
workers in the economic and indus
trial revival. elected members of cor
porations and local councils are the
ones most frequently arrested.
The propaganda of militarist
government is a study in itself. Ire
and is painted to the world as ma
ton of criminals. The list of out
RACES which you read in the daily
papers is n one-sided affair. Take an
example: The Summaries of Or
ficial Reports OF outrages," issued
by Dublin Castle, are sent out as de-
famatory propaganda against Ireland
and for consumption of the outside
world. Framed with the Intention
of suggesting to prejudiced minds
that all criminality of every kind In
ireland is due to the national move
ment. they included not only outrages
genuinely due to the eNasperated
condition of the country. under the
military regime. but large numbers
of petty larcenies. burglaries and
other offences not connected with
politics and common In every country.
as well as Incidents arising from the
acute agrarian unrest due to the in
competence of the official department
dealing with land purchase and dis
tribution. Perhaps some of you have
read In the press reports that for the
whole four years, May i916-March
1920. Dublin Castle attributes to
Sim Fein less than 1000 outrages.
including Sc murders. but no where
have you read that Sim Fein speci-
fically charges against the Castle &c.
sac acts of aggression. including 10
murders
Everyone knows that there is
only one way in which white people
can be ruled in civilized manner.
namely. by its own government dem
oeraticaliy chosen by its own peo-
pie.
There are two governments in Ire
land: The Irish government resting
on the moral sanction of a great
democracy is gaining ground. GROUND
OF a kind difficult to recover. by the
sword. The English government,
resting solely on brute force, has
over-reached itself II has destroyed
law and order, and left them to be
replaced by the political idealists II
has outiawed.
There are over 100000 soldiers in
ireland at the present time. Backed
by the navy, England can hold the
island. But II cannot govern it. The
ROYAL Irish Constabulary, which in
quieter times used to perform ordl-
nary civil duties, has ceased to func-
tlon, so to speak. Several hundred
barracks occupied by them have been
evacuated, and have since been burnt
by the Republicans to prevent their
re re-occupation. Whole districts in the
rural parts have been left without a
government II has been left to Sim