The Irish standard., 1920-05-08
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"EvlI IN IRELAND IN ENGLISH
GOVERNMENT"

GOVERNMENT"
sh0uiu awaken, the greater subjects
Of Government are withheld from the
new bodies, and only its petty detail
clearly assigned to them. And lest the
real canker Of Irish society should be
removed, the foreign police system,
the foreign police Office which we call
Dublin Castle, and the foreign ruler
whom we call the Lord Lieutenant
all remain.
Alleged "crime Waves"
The terrible truth is not that we
misgovern Ireland, but that we de-
prave her. Irish political crime is no
natural product of Irish character,
and If Unionism thought that it was,
it would not even propose to change
the method of its rule. Nearly all
Englishmen who visit Ireland come
back In love with her people, and find
it difficult to understand the meaning
of the crime-waves of the seventies
and eighties and of this horrible year.
Would he then seek the source of this
poison. let him turn to Mr.. Erskine
Childers' recent description of its
working. From Dublin Castle, says
Mr.. Childers. "Emanates a stream Of
proclamations prescribing anything
and everything with national
tendency. Here is the nerve GEN.
tre of d vast and elaborate system
of political espionage necessary where
the political opinions of the great mass
of people are criminal under the law
Here converge thousand rivulets of
secret intelligence, the reports of a
host of spies, informers and agents,
and hence issues a corresponding
food of orders for raids, searches, Sc.
cret inqulsitions and arrests, and of
those infamous lettres de cachet for
Imprisonment on suspicion without
charge or trial which are the last
resort Of terrorist governments Only
five of these untried suspects were
found in the Bastille when it was
stormed. Hundreds are now in irish
and English gaols by order of the
Castle"
Just Hatred Of British Rule.
The result is the disintegration of
Irish life. Membership of the Brit
ish Parliament has become for Irish
men who refuse the British connec-
tion on its present terms a passport
to q British gaol; the home of any
Irishman who is a Nationalist of the
Left may be broken into at any hour,
and any Irish city become the scene
of bloody strife between the citizens
and the army of occupation. 1t is
surprising, therefore, that behind the
ferocity Of the assassin, and far out
weighing 1t in seriousness, lies the
deep moral aversion of countless Irish
officials, religious and political leaders
and public men. This Just hatred
of English rule has been felt by gen.
GRAFTON after generation Of 1rishmen,
and carried by them. like seeds by
birds or winds, to the most distant
corners Of our Empire and to every
society of civilized men.
England Over Both.
This bill merely sets Ulster over
Ireland. and England over both. Mr..
Asquith's act kept England in Ire.
land, while giving ireland a pledge of
slow, too slow, evacuation. There
fore, the latter measure exceeds the
former in craftsmanship just in so
far as It began to drain cut the venom
OF the wound in place Of sealing it
up. But now the patient knows that
she is being practiced on, and the
world knows It, too. No cure, there
fore, is possible, for no cure is meant;
and against each device of the physi-
clan the distrustful sufferer will strug-
gle to the death.
Shall We, then, destroy Ireland?
That is the proposition. Mr.. George