Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-11
PUBLIC OPINION
iii IRISH

estiimable service he has rendered To
the cause of justice and truth by his
timely formation of a commission to
investigate the atrocities in Ireland.
To the hearings of this commission
the representatives of Ireland and of
England are impartially invited and
the evidence adduced by this COM
mission will be published broadcast
throughout America. so that n
great jury OF American public opin-
ion can then decide for itself what
course to pursue after studying the
facts and placing the responsibility
for them.
If the ethical unity of the English
speaking peoples is not to be ire
parably sundered and the last rem
nant OF the Irish race decimated it
Is not irconceivable hat in so old a
fcud. so deeply envenomed by mu-
tual distrust, some outside tribunal
must finally raise its voice and hand
in behalf of justice and freedom.
and / know of no better tribunal
than American opinion expressed
through the mouth of its govern.
ment and enlightened by the impair
tial evidence which this commission
will undoubtedly have at its dis
posal.
III any case, lut tpilllillSSlpn . ID
Dor is a magnificent work. for hui
mainly and patriotism. and it Is to
be regretted hat the British ambas-
sador. Sir Auckland Geddes. has de-
clined to answer the ummons of the
commission to appear before 1t and
present his side of the case and ex-
plain or justify. IL possible. the pres
ent reign of British frightfulness in
Ireland. Probably the consciousness
of the awful blood guilt of the coun-
try which he represents accounts for
his sullen refusal to attend. 1t is
plainly evident hat he is afraid OF
the naked and impartial truth.
THERE'S a vast difference between
English propaganda as permeating
the pro-British press in this country
and worn statements before an inn
partial tribunal seeking ress facts.
If the ambassador was not afraid of
publicity and the fiendish methods
of his government as applied in SUBJ
jugating. not only Ireland but India.
Egypt. South Africa. and even the
American colonies. he should be glad
of the opportunity to appear before
this commission and justify the
penditure of hundreds of millions of
dollars--borrowed from Is and for
which they do not ever pay the in
terest-in exploiting a propaganda
of lies in the hope that the Ameri-
can people will be humbugged into
the belief that their methods of paci-
flying the peoples of the above
named countries are justifiable.
No, Sir Auckland will not appear
before this commission. as his an
swers 10 leading questions which he
would be compelled TO make under
nath riding tho nnlIRN nf his pnW-
eminent in Ireland and elsewhere
would nullify all the effects of his
propaganda of lies. and the hundreds
of millions of dollars expended for
that purpose would De worse than
wasted, If not act as a boomerang.
1t is said that English statesmen
are the ablest in the world. j adj
nit this to be true il lying and hy-
pocrisy influenced by supreme sell
fishness, is considered statesman
ship. If the English politicians who
govern England today were pos
sessed of real craftsmanship and had
| applied it to Ireland at any period,
thirty, fifty or a hundred years back,
she would in a great measure have
conciliated that country by giving il
a generous measure of home rule
which her colonies possessed. and
present conditions would have been
avoided. Ireland to some extent
would be Modified and a better feel
ing brought about by fair trade and
commercial relations: but English
| greed and selishness superseded
every other consideration.
Now ireland is about to regain
her independence and England will
lose that country just as she did the
American colonies. and for the me
identical reasons. England in colo
NAL times had some real statesmen
i'm the persons of Edmund Burke and
William Pitt, Earl of Chatam.
whose advice regarding the govern
ing of the American colonies was is-
nored, TO Britain's loss and our gain.
Those real statesmen were in their
day overruled by the same interests
which are ruling that country at this
moment, and which will eventually
destroy the British empire.
English rulers have been so blind
cd by their own egotism that it is
impossible for them TO see the
Handwriting on the wall" and they
will hardly realize their doom until
London bridge is prepared for Mac
Cauly's artist from New Zealand
sketching the ruins of Westminster
Abbey.
1t is to be deplored that selishness
and greed and lust for power and
domination should be the cause of
their own destruction. Had they
been observers of the teaching of the
Founder of Christianity whom they
hypocritically pretend to worship.
instead of being a ena to the
peace of the world, they would be
following the course of peaceful
commerce and the pursuit of happi-
ness of all peoples.
But Great Britain is about to make
war on these United States in the
very ear future. with her ally. ia
pan. taking the initiative. and any
other nation which she may be able
to suborn or induce to participate
with her in such an enterprise.
To the close and intelligent OBJ
serve of men and events. there are
many uumistakable signs. which il
would be criminal for this govern
ment to ignore. that she will never
permit any nation to supercede her
i'm her supremacy of the e without
making a supreme effort to form q
combination of nations to avert It:
and she is "a past master of that. II
she does, she will belle all her past
history.
To what extent Japan is tied 10
England is not definitely known, but
this much is certain-that England
is ~maneuvering in her old charac-
t~eristic and %peridious way to bring
about a war between this country
and Japan. her two great maritime
rivals, in the hope that they will de-
stroy each others war and CONNER
cial navies and leave her without q
competitor on the seas.
Truth cOnquers all things. ana