El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-16

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variety OF material gathered by the editor
~ me Herald iu Europe during the war
and after. Excerpts VIII Dc puplshed y
this column daily during the next several
months. Publcatlon Of the Notes BE-
ran October IS. Today's instalment con-
tinuss the Irish notes
IT HAS BEEN easier to tell what I
saw and read and heard, than It
Is to sum up and attempt to interpret
IL or suggest even the outlines Of a
nossible solution. Ny notes on these
interpretativc phases have purposely
been saved until the last. As I went
along I recorded observations and IN
ferences, and It is best to give them IS
they we're written at the time, unat-
fecfed by what has passed since then.
The English in the last half century
have made many efforts 70 meet Ire
lands demands in a material way
From the Englist ~ standpoint, the
various bills that have been passed
have been liberal, often to the point
where some elements in Britain have
regarded the action Of the government
as a betrayal Of the Kingdom as all
but traitorOus It must be taken into
account, the point OF view OF the ing
l;sh in all this. that whatever has been
ward Ireland. OF toward rendering ma
teriaI aid, has been done m the face
Of powerful and bitter opposition
England today honestly thinks she has
been excessively generous toward Ire
land during the last generation.
Without discussing IN detail the
measures taken, let us declare once
for all the naked truth about 1T; that
all material aid attempted by England
has been worthless and unavsilmg;
that nothing England might offer to
do would meet with Irelands approval;
that England has totally forfeited. and
forever. Irish confidence, Irish respect,
Irish friendship.
Ireland IS not considering what IS
being done now, what is being planned
what Is being prepared Tor offer; Ire
land is considering Just two things,
first, the 500 years OF wrong; second
Ireland's will
Ireland is not in frame Of mind 10
concede that there is OF can be one
grain Of sincerity OF humanity or politi-
cal sagacitv in an English body.
Ireland llet us rather say three
fourths Of Ireland hates England with
a burning, undying hate, a hate that
is the hate Of passion, not the hate OF
reasons a hate that IS the hate OF
feeling. Of emotion. not the hate Of
conviction or Of justice.
The trouble Is not materials It is
spiritual
Il goes deep down into the very fiber
Of being. 1t is part Of life. III Eng
land Should paw over TO every man.
woman. and child in ireland today
$1,000 in gold It would not restore what
has been forfeited. Il would not change
the feeling Of the people. Nothing
that England can do to improve ma
terial conditions Of the country or It's
people viii have any important bear
ing on the permanent solving OF the
political problem. Things have gone
too far.
The friction is primarily racial. The
English are chiefly Of Germanic-lfer-
man and Scandinavian-stOck ne
Irish are Celts. The Irish and the
English are racially as different as the
French from the Germans, the Italians
from the Dutch.
The south and west are the best
parts Of Ireland Why have not the
people developed as they have IN the
northl Why do the modern progress
and the modern industry seem 70 be
In the north, the stagnation and waste
in the s0uthl The Irish OF the south
and west maintain that England has
always favored the north, Disseminated
in its favor in every way and against
the south and west. But u Ireland
suffers in q material way let Us say Il
Is her own fault, and let It 90 at that
II any event, it IS not the eruX OF the
problem.
Parts Of Scotland were originally
g.. T-nHnwH fNn la wnrf nj
I Ireland was afterwards oVerrun By
I Scotch and English, as we have already
I seen. Now what is the attitude Of the
north Irish toward the south Irish, and
what is the attitude Of the Scotch to-
ward all Irish, and what is the attitude
Of the south Irish toward the north
Z Irish2
These are-hard and unpleasant things
[ 10 say, but I VIII say IL exactly az u
I impressed itself on me at the time: Inc
D attitude Of the north Irish toward the
7 south Irish is more hateful, more BIT
[ ter, more utterly contemptuous, than
that OF any race or people toward an
other race OF people Of which / have
[ ever read. Judge from the express
I sions I heard, and from the language
used In the newspapers and periodical
uress. and from books and pamphlets.
Z The north Irish look upon the south
Irish as no better than vermin, to be
I stamped on and eXtermmated; the
epithets the north Irish apply to the
I south Irish are such as no human beng
ought ever TO apply to another human
being; to apply them even TO lower
animals would be an insult to nature
The north Irish do not eOncede human
attributes 70 the south Irish.
Many Scotch in Scotland look upon
all Irish IN exactly the same light in
which the north Irish look upon the
south Irish
in American experience, or IN my
travels and observations and studies
/ have never anywhere else come upon q
state Of mind existing between two
! peoples, nations, or races, comparable
to the total Reputation Of an human
factors a possible contact, which ha;
come about between these neighbor:
in the British isles. The English Ian
ruage contains no Woo TO describe II
accurately. One must feel it, ex
/ perienee Il; as lord Morley remarked II
. another connection, one can never
. So