The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-15

BELFAST, Dec. S.--The progress of the Ul-
 ster delegation to America is being watched
 here with much curiosity The Americans who are asked to accept these gentlemen as repre- lsenting Irish Professionalism of all denomina- |tions, or even the United Protestantism of Ul- |ster, should consider the circumstance of their lselection as well as their constitution.
 They were not chosen at any public meeting tof the creeds fo which they belong, but were |selected by the Belfast Orange clique, to which lat least three, and probably four, of them be- Hong. They are noted for their extreme views, |even among Orangemen. % The only meeting called in connection with |the delegation was at the May Street Church here. and this was to announce that the pastor lof that church had been selected to join the delegation The meeting consisted solely of Or angemen and Unionists and none of the numer- Ious Protestant Liberals and Home Rulers among the clergy was present or was consulted. Any
 idea that all their co-religionists in Ulster share their views is sfounded. Even in the County Antrim, the biggest Protestant county in Ulster, lthere is well-known district called "the rout, (which comprises most of North Antrim, where of the Presbyterian ministers are Liberals. The Liberal organ of Ulster, Pres, Ibyterian paper representative of the Liberal |Protestants of the whole province, has repud- Hated the delegation, knowing, it says, that its lentire stock in trade will be the religious argu-
 Iment which Ulster Protestant Liberals know
 to be a false argument.
 The delegation consists of three Methodists, namely, the Rev. F. E. Hare, the Rev. C. ". Maguire, both from Donegal Square Church, Belfast and the Rev. E. HaZleton, unattached {; | three Presbyterians, the Rev. Wylie Blue of the May Street Church, Belfast: the Rev. William C.orkey of the Townsend Street Church, Bel fast and Billy Coote, the Orange member for South Tyrone; and one Episcopalian the Rev Louis Crooke, rector of Knockabreeda Belfast; The total number of Methodists in Ireland lis 6S,382, or IA per cent; the Presbyterians and all other on-Cathohcs of Ireland, except, ling the Episcopalians, number ,556; and Episcopalans. nnmber 526,55G, and Methodists have three members on the delegation and the EpiscOpalans only one. This over-repfesentatiOn of Methodists IS because the Methodist body in America is known to be SC powerful and the whole idea of the
 delegation, as conceived by Lord Beayerbrook, lis to inflaine Methodist feeling on religious grounds against lrelands demand for Home
 Rule
 The delegation, in fact represents the only section of Irish Protestantism which breaches and practices intolerance against their Catholic Ifellow-countryrnen
 of this indictment t0 the effect that t had been lappointed through the official channels of the Isent. , Ito consider this article of Beaverbro0k, recently written for the London Daily Exppess:,
 Great, potent, though silent forces in the public life of the United States are the Presby- terian and Methodist churches. The Methodiss church stretching out it's influence over millions i'm every corner of the vast continent is perhaps
 the most powerful political body the new world
 has ever seen. It was it's tremendous pressure
 which made America dry, and body that can