The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-04-09
U. S. BLAMED FOR
REVOLT IN IRELAND
Lloyd George Says a Word to
Our American Friends
HIS WARNING TO THE IRISH
Compares De Valera To Jefferson
Davis-Sir Edward Carson Says
Murders Are Committed
BY Americans.

London.-Replying to arguments in
the House of Commons against the.
Irish home rule bill Premier Lloyd
George declared that the government
had every reason to be satisfied with
the course of the debate, as it dem
onstrated that the governments plan
was the only one that held the field.
The difficulty of the problem, said
the Premier, was that no proposals
which would be acceptable to any
party in this country would be ac-
copied by any party in Ireland. If
the people Of Ireland were asked what
plan they would accept, declared Mr..
Lloyd George, they would say by an
emphatic majority:
I'VE want independence and an
Irish Republic
The Premier insisted there was no
use of talking about self-determina-
ton, since those who supported it
must go to the full length of granting
an Irish republic. n
"Self-deterrninatio continued the
Premier, does not mean that every
part of the country, which has been
acting together for a hundred years,
should have the right to say: We
mean to set UP a separate republic.
There must be a limit to the appli-
cation of any principle; otherwise it
might be carried to every locality in
every country throughout the world"
Mr. Lloyd George asserted that no
one had accepted the plan OF former
Premier Asquith. Dealing with the
suggestion of John R. Clynes, Labor,
for a constituent assembly, the Pre-
mier emphasized, that the previous
Irish convention had failed and asked
If it were likely that the assembly
proposed by Mr. Clynes would be any
more successful Since any proposal
which Irish opinion would by a large
majority accept would not be accepted
by any party in Great Britain, Mr.
Lloyd George declared, therefore, the
government must exercise its, judg-
ment for the United Kingdom and the
whole empire in order tonccme to the
wisest conclusion possible. The Pre-
: mier reiterated his declaration that
the government plan held the field be-
cause it recognized the fact that the
House would not satisfy Irish opinion
In its present state without destroying
the essential unity of the kingdom.
The demand in Ireland for the mo-
ment was for independence and seces-
sion. net self-government.
Mr.. Lloyd George said he wanted
to say to "our American friends"
Eamonn de Valera was pulling for
ward the same claim in exactly the
same language. as Jefferson Davis, and
that some. of the men who voted for
the Irish .self-determinatio motion in
the Senate the other day, had ancestors
who fought to death. against conced-
ing to the Southern States of America
the very demand they are now support
ing for Ireland.
The acceptance Of that demand, de-
clared the Premier would never come.
1t was demand which, if persisted in,
he said, would lead to exactly the
same measures Of repression as. in the
case of the Southern. States Of Amer
lea Great Britain, he declared,
claimed nothing more than the United
States had claimed for themselves.
Great Britain, he added, would stand
on its own legs.