Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-30

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started for Balbriggan. There they
first set fire to the public houses and
a large number of private homes from
which they drove the people. and then
burned to the ground some of the larg.
est hosiery mills in Ireland. belonging
to an English firm. They wound up
the raid by numbering barber and
a dairyman, both Sim Feiners. Silni-
lar raids were made last week on
other Irish towns where the police had
been enraged by the killing or wound
ing of their comrades. In County
Glare military truck in which were
a number Of police was ambushed by
armed men and in the ensuing fight
four of the officers were killed. The
police involved in the Balbriggan Incl
dent were not members of the Royal
Irish constabulary, but recruits for
that force who from their uniforms,
are known as ''blacl1 and tans." In
the last two weeks more than twenty
policemen and soldiers and score of
Sim Feiners have been killed In Ire
land, and large numbers on both sides
have been wounded.
Oswald Garrison Willard, who used
to be notoriously pro-German and
anti-British, has formed a committee
of 100 Americans to investigate and
report pIblicly on conditions in Ire
land. with especial reference to utroci-
ties. Public hearings will be held liz
Washington by commission Of the
committee. Several senators and gcv.
ernors have agreed to serve on the
committee, all the members of which
are said to be prominent citizens.
So far as the public has been per
mitted to know, little progress ha
been made toward discovering and np
pretending the perpetrators Of the
Wall street bona outrage. 1t has been
definitely established, however, that
the blast WIS caused by the explosion
OF q huge INT bomb with time de-
vice, and there is no doubt the affair
was arranged by reds. Many arrests
have been made, but it is not known
that the guilty persons are in Gus
tody. Since the New York explosion
a good many other cities have re-
ceiVcd warnings that certain public
buildings We're to be blown up. A
good guess is that the outrage was the
work Of radical leaders who wished by
this demonstration to keep up the
revolutionary spirit of their recruits.
The five Socialists who were ex
PEELED from the New York legislature
some time ago, and who were re-elect.
ed recently, attempted to take Their
seats Three of them were agair
ousted and the others resigned in pro
test The action of the majority ir
the assembly was opposed by Theo
dore Roosevelt and is characterized
by Charles Il. Hughes "incredible foil,
and agrant disregard of the funda
mental principles Of American institu
items" Owing to certain cOmplica
tions this time, the case may be taker
into the courts
The Kenyon committee of the sen
ate resumed in Washington its Inves
tigation of campaign funds. and sub
poenaed several bureau chiefs in the
endeavor to learn to what extent fed
eral agencies are being employed tt
disseminate election propaganda fol
Cox. The Republicans assert the pub
lications of the bureaus Of education
war and navy have been used this
way. James w. Gerard chairman o1
the Democratic finance committee
told the committee he had collected
only S12S,000 to date and that he
would be happy If he got million
also that no limit was put on indi
viflual contributions. william Boyce
Thompson, chairman Of the Republic
an ways and means committee. told
the committee the Cox charges were
call bunk" and aroused Senator Reed
by asserting that Mr. Cox sis nc
stranger to Wall street" Pinned
down, he said he implied nothing sin
lister.
Devotees of the national sport are
wrought up over another inquiry that
began last week. This is an investi
cation, by grand jury at Chicago
into baseball gambling. and it gain.
added interest because 1t promises tc
uncover crooked work by players in
the worlds series last fall between
the Chicago WHITE So1 and the Gin
cimati National league team. Com
ment, If any is needed, must be de
ferred since at this writing the in
quiry is only getting fairly started.