Arizona republican., 1920-09-30
GREY WOULD GIVE
 IRISH CHANCE
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 credit to British statesmanship as it is today" he said.
 'Tt has been unable to punish or prevent the constant murder of those who serve it; in parts of Ireland it's authority apparently has decreased and been superseded by Sim Fein courts which alone redress can be ob- tained for ordinary crime or wrong doing, and some. if not all, of the once unionist minority in nationalist Ireland, hopeless of protection from the British government, is now advo- eating dominion home rule, or look ing to an agreement with the Sim Fein.
 s.The British administration, in fact is exhibiting the helplesSness of an extremely feeble government, while incurring all the odium of one that rules by force. Ireland is more dis contented than ever and there is no prospect of a settlement of improve ment.
 ITO this we have come after cen turies of British rule. and it would be well for any one, whether he be a Home Ruler or a Unionist, to look for the cause with fresh mind l The permanent underlying cause of l a failure so prolonged and persistent | is that in Ireland is not to be found in l the shortcomings of individual govern ments, not even in those of the present government. Faulty as all governments may be and as many British govern ments in Ireland certainly have been the Irish question would have been solved before now but for one thing the difference between Irishmen them selves, that is, between Ulster or part
 of Ulster and the rest of Ireland. And the lessson of past years is that this
 difference is inflamed and not compos-
 ed by British proposals for the govern
 nnent of Ireland"
 "The present home rule bill now be-
 fore parliament is no exception. There
 is much to say in the abstract for the
 lines on which it is drawn-they coulc
 easily be expanded into dominion home
 rule for united Ireland. But appar-
 ently no one wants the bill; no one
 accepts it as a solution and IrishmeT will refuse to put it into operation. We : must therefore look to some other pol icy for relief.
 Nothing that is in the nature of z , bargain between the British govern
 ment and one part of Ireland has any chance of successs. If the Sim Feir Ulster accepts it, the Sim Fein vii , reject it.
 , ''The only prospect for future peace 7 and good government in Ireland is tha : the Irish should draw up their ow1 scheme. This is a point which LorC duSn O6CA IIldO0 NSIS OASe1AiS ci AOF , weeks ago. But this proposal had, f think a fatal defect-it stopped shor
 of the one thing essential to mal1 : Irishmen agree upon their own prob e lens They will never do this excep V under pressure of a real sense of re
 sponsibility.
 "That is what they have never ye Q had for it has always been understoo D that as long as Irishmen differed Grea T Britain would go on governing or pro r posing plans for the government 10 y Ireland As long al this is so, the Iris
 conyention or constituent assembly wi q either differ aud break up in interns q discord or propse something which the t know we cannot agreee to. Probabl = it will do both Of these things and tn e present intolerable state in Ireland wi l contiue indefinitely"