El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-02
Spectre of Protestant and Catholic Massacres Arises as Political
Situation Grows More Hopeful; Reprsals IN South Against
Belfast Riots Feared-SOuhern Tories Prefer
Sim Fem To Anarchy
a. IOFIN LLOYD BALDERsTON.

they have been forced to concentrate
only in certain strong centers. where,
in some parts Of the country. they
are in the position Of a beleaguered
garrison.
Many Of them are growing
ashamed OF their dirty and disreputa-
bic work entailing armed violence
and often murder, directed against
their own fellow countrymen. There
are lists OF designations from the
force daily, and the effort Of the
enemy to fiji up the gaps BY English
recruits IS a confession Of failure.
This communiQue fairly well tells
the truth. And the police, feeling
their weakness and their isolation,
have IN many districts commenced to
go wild" Sometimes this police have
wrecked whole villages, as In Thuam
and Thurles.
Police Wreck Towns.
Ten cooperative and two privately
owned creameries have been burned
or wrecked; the completely Of police
or soldiers was proved in court in
two cases. and their guilt appears a
moral certainty in al.
Their attitude towards the popula-
ton they are supposed to guard Is
well illustrated by two fires, appar-
emily accidental, that occurred in
Foynes. county imerick,L within 200
yards OF a barracks Earrisoned by 20
policemen. The police did not give
the alarm, and would not come out to
assist in putting out the fires
An antf-sinn Fefner to whom /
repeated this retcrted that had
the police come out, they might
have been shot in the hack. The
fires, he said, may have been
started as lures to draw the Do
lice from the shelter Of their
fortified stronghold.
A ~ rriaNH -
prominent southern Unionists as lord
Mouteagle, lord Shartesbury from the
Orange camp OF Ulster, lord MacDon-
nell, and many former home rulers
such as Capt Stephen Gwynne and
Sir Thomas Esmonde, who haVs never
had anything to do with Sim Fem
There were Catholic priests and Prot
estant clergymen, liberals, National
list and Tory landowner also present
and the sense OF these "moderates"
seemed 70 be that England should
grant Ireland full autonomy within
the empire. with self determination
by counties FOR the province OF Ulster.
To anyone familiar with Irish his
tory this sensational change Of view
on the part Of men who would only
recently have fought to the death
against home rule is almost incredi-
BILE
sRepubucans7 Pleased.
Arthur Griffith, the head Of Sim
Fein IN the absence Of De Valera,
said IN discussing this Moderate"
conferences that such men as lord
Shaftesbury and lord Macdonald are
"on the road 10 republicanism-" BE
said they had already Travelled the
Ereater part OF the distance IN advo-
eating dominion home rule. In Lon
don little attention has been paid to
the Moderate" conference, the gov
eminent taking the view that the
conference meant nothing because
Sim Fein did not take part, and that
dominion home rule cannot be dis
cussed BY England unless Sim Fem
gives guarantees IN advance that Il
Even the noderates find no susti-
Gcatlon for the coercion bill recently
passed by the British parliament "to
restore order" and now the most law
abiding section from the English
viewpoint, the southern Uni0nlsts.
Themselves oppose It Some Of its
provisions. which may at any time
Be put N force, are remarkable.
What Can Be Done.
Any Irishman may be court mar
tailed for an act not illegal at the
time he committed Il, but made NE
gal since b. the set Any person
to give evidence which a
court martial believes him 20 possess
may be court martialed and sent 20
prison. One OF the clauses most re-
scented provides that II a document fs
found n the house IN which 4 man
lives, or has lived at any time IN the
past, the man may be convicted as
having the document technically
found IN his possession
UnuueItiOnahIy Sim Fen las
entity been enormouEIT
strengthened hecauSs Of the hit
ter erificiHm agninHt England By
Uui1uigfn nnd Nutionalinls.
For Sim Fein has always claimed
that q represented the Irish nation.
and has sought to simplify the issue
Into s struggle between ireland and
England The English defence
against Sim Feiz aspirations has
been and e that Ireland Is divided
against itself and that Sim Fem rep