The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
BY A. G.. GARDINER.
Formerly Editor OF the London
"Datly News

Formerly Editor of the London
"DaiIy News"
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1920, By THE New York HERALD.
LONDON, Nov. 27.-l do not think
that In the darkest days of the war
so heavy a shadow hung over US as
there hangs over us now. Then, Nt
least, our conscience was clear. We
had a good cause; we had a united
people. If there was a break In the
clouds we reJoiced together. II things
looked desperate and failure was i'm
minent. at least we felt that we could
lose honorably. We might be beaten.
but we would not be disgraced.
But now horror succeeds horror. In
these days we seem to pass into the
very valley of humiliation. There Is
no break in the sky, no promise of
anything except more horror. deeper
shame. And we are rent asunder. A
profounder gulf divides the nation
than ever before in the memory of
living man. 1t deepens and wtlens
day by day.
The appalling events in Dublin In
the last days of last week and the
first days Of this made the issue an
impossible one. On one side every
violent passion is modified against
reconciliation, regardless Of party or
of creed, are being consolidated
against the Government.
If a collision Of these forces could
find expression in Parliament there
would be hope, but 1t cannot Not
since the corrupt days of George III.
has Parliament been so degraded, so
out of touch with the better minds of
the country. 1t is the creation of Mr..
Lloyd Georges stump election and the
slave of Carsonism and violence. The
horrible scenes in the House of Com
mons last Monday when maniacial
voices cried XIII him! Kill him!"
because Mr.. Devlin dared ask a ques-
ton, and when the Speaker had to
suspend the sitting lest 1t should end
in unprecedented scenes Of violence,
gives you an idea of this humiliating
assembly.
ask the American people to believe
that it does not represent the nation.
It represents the mob. It represents
the ignorant rich. 1t represents the
militarists and the imperalists. 1t
does not represent the mass Of sober
opinion. which is shocked and outraged
by the hideous plunge into barbarism.
The voice of liberalism has declared
with overwhelming emphasis against
reprisals after the Bradford confor-
ence this week. Organized labor is
solidly on the same side. The churches,
futile though they have been since the
war began, are beginning to share the
indignant cry of shame.
But how can these forces make
themselves felt? If they could COM
pei an election I am confident that
this Parliament would be shattered
and that the Governments policy
would collapse in a day. But there
are no means of forcing an election,
and while this Parliament LISTS Lloyd
George and Carsonism control the
machine and all the resources Of the
terror.
Sim Fein Crime Magnined.
And not only do they control the
machine directly or indirectly, but
they control the press also The lime
light is turned on every crime by the
Sim Fem that will sting the country
sitting as n jury. 1t leaves all the
crimes OF the Government in the
shadow. Compare the attention given
the horrible assassination of the Of
ficers in Dublin with the treatment
the horrible massacre-in connection
with the football game in Croke Park
in Dublin last Sunday and this fatal
policy. Illuminating one side and ig-
noring the other. will be apparent.
Even the terrible denunciation of re-