The Mena weekly star., 1920-05-06
IRISH WILL GIVE ALI FOR FREEDOM
Vice President of the Sim Fein Re- public Says They Cannot Be Broken
 and Win Not Be Tricked--
 Defeated Treaty in U. $.
lBy International News Service

By International News Service)
 Dublin, May 4.-'1reland is done forever with subservient bargaining and will endure patiently until she is recognized by Great Britain and the world as a free and equal nation among nations" Arthur Griffith, vice. president of the Sim Fein republic, told representative of the Manches- ter Guardian.
 We fought the last general election on perfectly constitutional lines, and the answer to it has been an intensifi- cation of unconstitutional persecution by the English ever since. The result is that Irishmen have lost all care for their own lives and property. This means that they are steeled for every sacrifice.
 Thus, on one hand, Dublin Castle cannot break us: on the other hand, the politicians cannot trick us.
 Irishnien have no hostility to Englishmen as such--let the British Army of Occupation be removed and we can be the best of friends.
 With regard to crime, when great national increment is driven violently underground, there is bound to be some use of counter violence but it is not on force but on the justice of cur historic cause being recognized by the conscience of mankind
 Mir. Griffith expressed the opinion that it was the Irish who beat the Yer sailles Peace Treaty in the United States.
 French opinion" he said. lis swing ing around in Ireland's favor, and in time England will see the folly of giving the world such an excellent stick to beat her with, the English policy has been to drive the Irish youth all over the world.
 If the English refuse to grant Ireland independence they will have to extirpate the Irish nation, and they will have to do their extirpation in the face of the world. Sim Fein has made the question an internation- al one and intends to keep it so. We are determined to put President Wil- sons principle of self-determination to the test and accept nothing less than our rights"
 MT Griffith pointed out that the Irish were the most patient people in the world. had stood Dublin Castle misruie for generations, and would stand Nit if need be, for generations more. He said that in Tipperary alone 10000 houses had been raided and that dep>rtation of Irishmen without trial had stiffened Irish op- position and patience beyond all cal culation.
 Every month of persecution that ensues makes the impossibility of a ed. sim Feiners rely upon them selves to win out thru patience. The name Sim Fein properly translated means self reliance. Then, too, we have strong asset in the growth of foreign detestation of British imper- ialism"
 Mir. Griffith was emphatic in stat ing there was no Ulster question" !" but that there was Belfast ques- tion,' which has been 'sedulously promoted from two sources"
 First, he said. there was the Union 1 ist politicians in London flaming every flame of anti-Nationalist feel ing in Ireland, and secondly, there where the linen lords and ship lords in Belfast, who worked up political emotions to kill economrc ones.
 Sinh Fein does not wish to bully or coerce Ulster" Griffith stated. ''As convinced Nationalists we could not allow Ulster to contract out of Ireland altogether, and we do not be- 1 lieve that Ulster would want to. In- side the limits of national integrity Ulster can have whatever safeguards she wishes
 l Because Ireland can be a self con tained and self-supporting nation, and would therefore embrace a pro tective tariff rather than free trade upon which England thrives. Lritish merchants and manufacturers are op- posed to allowing Ireland to deter mine her future. either politically or economically, Griffith said. 1 As a curious feature of British rule in Ireland, Griffith is allowed to pub- fish weekly called "Young Ireland v