The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-15

do that can do anything. In fact on this very issue, the Irish municipal bosses, who were the owners of the liquor traffic, locked horns with the Methodist church, and were utterly over- thrown. Qtalics inserted).
 The Methodist church. in any easy case ree gards a politicoreligious (sic) crusade preached by the Irish with small favor. but it might take no practical action on the other side unless it's act and 1t would crush the American Sim Fen- CTS as a cartwheel crushes toad The Ulster men have 80 far made no real effort to stir this slumbering giant, unless perhaps Sir Edward Carson's much criticized July speech in Belfast was intended as the first move in this cam- paign But if they make the appeal in loud enough accents the feelings of those Presbyter- ian and Methodist churches will move to meet them. A single shot fired in Ulster under the domination of an Irish Dominion Government would set the real American opinion in flame. It is idle to ignore these facts, or to pretend that this big stick of American opinion is not a weapon which may yet be turned against Sim Fein itself. am stating the political dilemma which confronts this country, not taking sides in religious dispute. We suffer from the hos tility of Catholic Irish America. But give do- minion oyer, Ulster to the population of the South and West, and our reputation in America would wither under the devastating hostility of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches to- morrow. I would welcome change of venue for this age-iong controversy; Great Britain has had more than it's share Let it be agitated and fought out for a time on the other side of the Atlantic. One thing is certain, 1t would be a rare education for the States, both in English and Irish politics. and at the end of it Amer icas would understand the difficulties of tenn peranent. race and religion with which success sive British Governments have had to deal in trying to solve the riddle set by the Irish sphinx
 Commenting on this the London correspond ent of the Canadian Statesman says:
 This base appeal to religious prejudice, will, il is felt on this side, work disastrous injury to the movement for aD Anglo-Sax0n rapproche- ment - It at any rate evidences deep eeated deternlination on the part of the Tory remnant in England to forego none of the wea- pOns that proved so successful in the past in retarding Q just settlement of the Irish 'ques- ton,
 That England, however, is not altogether call0lls to Ireland's grievances IS evident from the fact that large demonstration in favor of self determination was recently held in Albert Hall, London. The meeting was called by Eng lishmen, Welshmen and Scotchmen, and was presided over by Commander kenw0rthy. MP, who declared that 'the man who said that Irish men did not fight in the late war was either liar or was ignorant of the truth" Continuing the speaker declared that he, an Englishman a Protestant, without drop of Irish blood in his veins. made bold to say "that English rule in Ireland differed but little from the German rule in Belgium during the war" And what made matters worse. he thought. was the fact that the Irish was the only white race now be- ing held down by force of arms. Other speak CTS expressed similar views, and a resolution was passed condemning misgoyernment in Ire land and pledgihg support to Q government by the people, Tor the people.