Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-10

Ulster politically, Sir Edward Carson, the Unionist leader.
even at the moment Of his greatest appeal, the time of the
signing OF the Covenant two years before the war, admitted
a following Of only 1000 (male and female) out of a
total adult population cover 1s) Of 100000, showing that
$4,000 = tSa, refused Use to t. say y they the preferred English autocracy
cratic country And there is also a wide gulf between the
total number n OF Protestants in Ulster and the total NUM-
ist;es which place the adult Protestant population Of Ulster
at eo5,ooo and covenanters 447, 900, leaving 5000. adult
Protestants who, when the opportunity afforded itsef, re
fused to sign away their rights as citizens.of Ireland: ~
The truth is that all of these efforts to throw dustin the
eyes of the American people by making Ulster seem differ
ont in race. religion and ideals from the rest of ireland are
English government to impose by military force its auto
cratic government upon a nation whose people want their
understanding of the question Of English rule in ireland is
that the Ulster Unionists who champion this autocratic for:
aires in control of the industries of Belfast and Derry City,
twho see in a free ireland the end Of their privilege to free
p. for west Hull. England. sponsors this statement Sneak.
ing at an Irish self-determination meeting under the au-
spices of the British labor party in Albert Hall. London,
DOGGY about Ulster is simply a trick to keep the workers
of Derry and Belfast from realizing their working condi-
tions and appreeiating the wages question: and to divide
them from the rest Of Ireland" councilo on Morley of Hall
fax Yorkshire. England. reporting upon the investigation
of the Belfast strike Of 1907. in which he revealed an al
most incredible story OF industrial oppression and whole
sale poverty. said:
st am sorry to say that I find that there exists ar evident
and interested desire by the employers to keep the workers
disunited. and for that purpose they exaggerate every little
difference either in religion or politics I am also happy 10
know that by the growing intelligence of the workers Of
Belfast they are seeing through this captalistic dodge"
The so-caAed Protestant Ulster delegation seek to justi-
fy the foreign yoke by celebrating upon sums loaned to
Irish farmers to improve Irish agriculture, railway i'm
provenents; construction Of four-room homes for work
ing men and their families and old age pensions. This. to
one who knows: Ireland. is very little to boast about in
deed. but admitting, for the sake Of clearing the issue. that
British rule in Ireland was the most beneicent on earth.
the Irish people would still demand their freedom be-
cause the British government is a foreign government, and
is therefore utterly wrong: unless we take the position that
all of the precious American lives lost in the war to s.
tablish government by the consent OF the governed every
where we're sacrificed in an unworthy cause.
Members of the delegation admit Ireland was once mis-
governed, but they say She is not misgoverned now. But.
as I have said, whether she were or not would make no
difference to Irishrnen. No one who knows even a little bit
people Of Ireland; even in living memory there has been a
famine in which hundreds of thousands persisted while
food thai would have saved them all was being TRANSPORT
ed to England in payment of rents to absentee British
landlords. But to forget history and bring the situation up
to tn. minute. Ireland is occupied by a force Of 100000
British troops armed with all the machinery Of modern
warfare. all free speech is abrogated. The officials elected
by the people are in jail: in England: forty-three papers
women who have dared to cypress their desire for free
dom, and they include Protestants and Catholics: the
police and the military; every boat ffpm America IS
searched and every American sailor must submit to a
all American newspapers arriving in the ssfnai1s are seized
by the, military; men are arrested and dsportedf secretly
have gone or whether they are alive or dead: secret po-
lice infest the country; no meetings can be held: no fairs
bring produce to towns without permits; motor cars and
motorcycles are contraband except when they are possess
a curfew has been declared; martial law prevails over
large areas: every village is an armed camp: every cross
roads is a machine gun nest, and now trial by jury is to
be suspended. y as
These are some of the facts Of the present day. to say
nothing of the British governmental systematic prevent the
growth Of industry and commerce by Irishrnen:. fa
There Is much said about murders ofssoldiers- md po-
llcemen' by Sim feiners. Nevertheless. uHder the sireun,-
stances 1t is surprising that more violencsgfs not done by
represdve measures dictated from London: Look at your
own American history prior tt, the actual formation Of the
Revolutionary army. 4k: