The Washington times., 1920-11-30
HUNS LOOSE IN.
ERIN, He SAYS.
London Editor Declares British
Policy Is to Terrorize
y Ireland.
BY ALFRED G. GARDINER.
Famous English Editor.


LONDON, Nov. 30.-The British
government have created a mon
ster which is out of hand. They
have let loose the Huns upon Ire
land, and their servants have be-
come their master.
TERRORIZE ISLAND.
That is the dreadful fact which
Is emerging from the tale OF horror
that goes on uninterruptedly from
day to day. They began the policy
of frightfulness deliberately. They
believed, as the Prussians in Belgium
believed, that they had only to adopt
it In order to terrorize the nation.
They made the blunder which the
Hun-mind in any nation always
makes. 1t believes that IL you are
only barbarous enough-"thorough."
to use the expressive words or one
Mr.. Georges predecessors, in the vain
art OF subjugating Ireland--you can
reduce a people to submission. IRE
LAND MUST BE BLOODED"-that
was the phrase in the army.
Anyone who mixed with the mill
tary hierarchy during the war will
be familiar with 1t. Sometimes the
figure was put at 500. XIII 500 or so,
and all the rest would be as quiet
as lambs, and the blessings Of Car
sonism would bring peace and happi-
ness to chastened people. 1t Is the
dream of vulgar, ignorant and brutal
minds, Of minds for whom the teach
ings OF history have no meaning.
WHY sINN FEN IS SPREADING.
The experiment has been tried, and
its failure is before us. Every new
infamy wrought by the government
every new atrocity. every indiscrimi-
nate murder. every creamery sent
IN flames to the skies, deepens the
wrath Of an outraged people. 1t
drives into the ranks Of Sim Fein
every moderate influence that should
be with US. just as the criminal policy
OF the allies toward Russia has
driven into the ranks of the Boil
shevists thousands who are not Boil
shevists, but who have no other
means of defending the independence
and liberty of their country.
Every crime and every folly we
commit recOiIs on us In the nccumu-
lated anger Of people who will
perish rather than submit to an alien
tyranny.
Does anyone today doubt the enor-
nous folly of that tragedy in Brixton
gaol?
Does anyone doubt the price we
have to pay for it?
Mr.. Lloyd George thought he was
playing the part of the strong man
in keeping the lord mayor of Cork
imprisoned. He believed he was not
in earnest. The vulgar-minded camp
followers in the press told us he
was not in earnest He was only
shamming, and when he found the
sort of stuff the stern, strong Welsh
man was made Of he would sure nder.
These petty. shabby minds that
nre leading England to ruin do not
understand the deep springs Of rcnl
men. The lord mayor was not sham
ming. He wns dying all the time a
lingering death for an iden-the sn-
cred idea for which the martyrs Of
all times have cheerfully laid down
their lives amid the SCOTS and jecrs
! Of the jnckaIs.
In the prime Of life. happy in his
home. successful in his career, raised
20 the highest distinction his city
could confer on him, he sacrificed all
for the freedom of his country. And
being dead, having passed beyond the
reach of his prosecutors. the power
OF his spirit has multiplied a thou
sand fold.
II is always so.
living, was only man fighting q
desperate battle, but John Brown
dead led millions to victory. YOu
cannot sIny nm idea with the sword
or the hangmnn's rope.
TRUTH ABOUT MURDERS.
And the breezy pantaloon in the
House of Commons declares that
frightfulness is winning, that the
,.vi,, al,,
land Is being raked east and west
and north and south, when every gay
and every impartial voice whether
English. French. or American, shouts
the contrary. For what Is the plain
truth about this hideous war? 1t is
this, TINT while every murder COM
mitted by the police and the soldiers
IL the murder Of some person sele ctcd
mt random, taken out OF his home and
shot. not because he In guilty Of
some crime. not even because he u
suspected OF crime, hut simply to
rrente terror-while this II so every
murder committee, by Sim Fcin, ex-
rcpt In the cnse of attacks on bar
racks. is the murder Of someone Sc
Iected for q sp~ciAc act. In this hor-
rlble war ono side, the side OF law
and order, strikes blindly in the dark ,
the other strikes by the light OF nm
iBfsiiibie knowledge.
will take a single case. When
Lord Mayor McCurtin Of Cork was
shot dead in his own house by
masked men It was alleged. in spite
Of the verdict OF the jur that he
had been slain by Sim Fei
Is that believed by any e today
EXP0SIIRE ACHH..