Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-08

| en- the breach between the two sec
tons, for they knew that two Amer
lean republics would be much cas-
Ter to deal with than one
Since we are speaking of analo
gies and recalling this effort to split
America" the Record goes OF,
may we not suggest that Great
Britain has similar thought in
giving Ireland over to two par,ia
ments. 1t is surely to Britains i'll
terest to keep the Irish people di-
yided against each other"
The Chattanooga News (Dem.l
offers interesting figures showing
the extent to which Ulster itself,
commonly regarded as hostile to
home rule, sympathises with nation
alist aspirations. Says the News:
In the 1918 elections OF
the total popular vote Of Ulster, "A
per cent was for SELF determination !:
226 704 votes were for nationalist
or republican candidates, and 242,-
e44 for unionist candidates. Five
of the nine counties OF Ulster are
strongly for self-determination, An
trim, containing the city OF Belfast,
being the only one unitedly oppos-
ins
Even including Ulster" the News
adds, the proportion of the vote of
Ireland is 1913 per cent for the Sim
Fem program"
Bat. declares the Philadelphia
North-Ameriean tProg), 1.-The Brit
ish government always pleads that
it cannot coerce one-ffth of the
country; but it has never hesitated
10 coerce the other four-fifths," and
this authority believes that the fail
IRE OF the proposed Lloyd George
experiment will force a more dras-
tic settlement one that Will lead to
solution of the most complicated
and perhaps the most dangerous In
ternational question of this time.
and will remove the greatest re-
proach to democracy"
Yet the Boston Transcript {Ind.
Rep observes that the govern
ment has at least achieved a pro
gram in ireland; nobody else has"
The New York Evening Post (Ind
notes the great progress that has
been made toward settlement;
What would have been thought,
in the days of Gladstone and Par.
nell" it asks, of man who should
have predicted that in Is years an
Irish Home Rule Bill would pass
the House of Commons unanimous
ly? ct that is virtually what hap
pened yesterday The recorded
vote was 34S to "a, but the minor
ity, save for a handful of Union
lists. was for Home Rule, merely
wanting a better measure than that
of the government. Thus we have
lived to see all English parties
swing over to the conviction that
the Irish must be left to manage
their own affairs.
The Nashville Banner Gnd1 de-
votes long article to the history
of Irish aspirations. agreeing with
the British theory that ireland is
any other part of the United King
dom; that it is given equal repre-
sentation in Parliament, with the
same qualification for voters" and
that when an Irishman doesn't In.
sist on being an alien in the Unit
ed Kingdom he ranks practically
with its other citizens" The Ban
ner does not deny the right to de-
mand independence, but insists
that no condition of onerous rule
existed in Ireland that made it nee
essary to bring about the present
disturbance there, plainly the re-
suit of Sim Fain agitation and re-
volt
The st. Paul Pioneer Press Qnd.)
condemns the tactics of terrorism"
used BY the Sim Feiners, which it
holds are aimed at defeating the
home rule bill, and says:
The self-assumed liberators of
Ireland. evidently, rather than be
tied to England by a string, prefer a
chain and, by the force of popular
explosion, to break that chain"