Tombstone epitaph., 1920-11-28
THE IRISH SITUATION

That definite solution of the Irish question is i'm nincnt can be readily that the sunday saynys III Dublin have occurred and there has been the floor of the English house of commons Whenever an sue gets critical that events of this kind take place. history teaches that there is inevitable rcadqnstmcnt and fighting of wrongs near.
 The Associated Press seems to have departed some what from its usual conservatism in the report which if furnished yesterday. This fair and scrllpuo,IS news .atlcsng organization sent out dispatches from London which maifcStlv proEnylis that thls paper il, common with others. hcSated tlem The tcno. shown in the constant of the words "aSs,SSn:.- ton, atrory and like terms. with such adjccvcs "holrible.'
 Now the truth is that there iS civil war m ireland The disturbances there are not sporadic killings ny pli vate individuals. The Irish republicans the hand and the Lloyd George ministry on the other through its Black and Fans. actually engaged in Wai-r.volll- ton on the one hand effort to stamp revolution on the other.
 Every effort is being made in the collSorcd > >atchcs which come out of London. the only available news to suppress the condition but exists IL not d war of armies and pitched battles II k guerrilla fare. but TT Is WAR.
 The Irish fighting for freedom l> best they can, The English are fighting" To prevent that freedom with like weapons.
 Under these conditions there i> reason why the combatS and the deaths and the whole bushes, lold not be treated in the news dispatches Manifr>tlv Gnytihing that would out of London would be col cred. Readers of The Citizen asked to bear m mind that the tsocatcd Press is don. the best it can to get at the facts If the stories of these clashes are Lon don-w1ttc, It would perhaps be better if the acctvrS and clalaccrizaton~ were edited out of the matter be- fore distribution n the United States but m any event the news Is there.
 The killings in Dublin Sunday were not l>>il>sna- ols they were not horrible and they atrocities unless the shooting of English troopers Bunker Hill was Wholesale assassination unless the destruction o the Germans at Chateau Thcrry horrible unless the battle of Santiago alocity
 t is high time that the world realized that Ireland, III the position any other nation struggling for her freedom II is her lack of munitions and arms that forces her o guerilla warfare Were she able o do >". she would project here warfare upon .radcr scale and thus avoid the application of cphctS.
 The situation k nolcIablc. Guerilla warfare cal- moi hc suppressed ny more cruelty and repression a> Lloyd George has threatened. Only outcollc> of lreland> grievance possible either indImnd,lrc o! cNttmnati"n.
 And a> Edmund Burke remarked that d whole ma ton cannot be indicted neither cau whole nation be ,Ntcrmnatcd.
 England rai more wipe out the Irish than the 'Ir kl>h Sultai> have been able wipe out the irmenias
 One wonders if Co>tantinoplc other wears had had entire control of the supply "f the news exchange. of America whether she would have been permitted to denomilatc Armenian >cfcfcnSc as a>trocols and as sasSlnaoll II some group of Amenians had shot down bunch of Turkish "cndarmcS in Syrian city
 IT does moi matter whether you Irish English CT what not m point of blood descent and European pre- dcctlon Ireland Is at rcvouton and at for her l- dependence Sine k entitled to fair play and decent co- slderation she makes game fight against great odds
 England cannot much longer pose before the League {" Nations the foremost organizer of the world against recurrence of German militarism while she aSsaclS audiences attending football game aS she did Sunday
 It Is not mmder-it k war in Ieard.- Tucson Citi-