Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-05
Sir Horace Plunkett At
tempts to Analyze
American View.
FINDS MUCH ANTI
BRITISH FEELING
irish Lssdbr Makes Casual Survey
ef UnIts States and Stresses I'm.
portanos n Irish 0ussvjon In lts
Relation 60 World War and Amer
lean Pelities-Hsms Rule Bill Crit.
, lelxsd.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Dublin. March 5.-Sharp criticism
Of the new Irish home rule bill was
expressed by Sir Horace Plunkett.
chairman Of tho Dublin convention
At welcome home" dinner given
in his honor last night by tho Irish
Dominion League.
He has Just returned from the
United States and gave his impress
sions Of the American attitude to-
ward Ireland.
Long before the war broke out"
he said. II was convinced the peace
Of the world depended on mutual un-
derstandinS between the British
commonwealth Of FREQ nations-a
term I prefer 20 the British empire
and the great republic Of the west"
How far German timed Armaged-
I don with IN eys on Ulster let histor-
ianS say. outsit u . matter Of per-
eonal lsnowIodSe that from 1911 the
German government was organizing
Z 0srman-American alliance In AM
eracan politics with . view to the
coming attaolsp on the worlds free
dom.
4 have not the least doubt that,
supposing the Irish trouble had any
thing 70 DO with the beginning OF the
war, Il was decisive factor
In delaying American participation
III the great struSgle. In q similar
manner Il was because Of great em-
barrasment TO the war department
In Washington.
Says 0veeeien Dslavsd War.
'only the Splendid loyalty to Am
erica Of Irish.A ner1cans counteract-
"a the deep resentment caused by
contrasts ~ too easily drawn be-
tween the tre4kment - re northeast
corner and the 1rsst OF our country
Il; 69ullicte with the British cavern
menG
sNow ana again some politician
wins chees4 by. telling America to
mind her 6tpn business and talking
about her metro question. II we had
- many negfpes in this country ~
the Americana have Irish in theirs
ana II the cof6red people possessed
|, the franchise We should be more 81
lent than the Americans are about
ireland.
II agree that It Is undesirable for
any. official or representative to IN
dulge In actions OF such nature. but
what these peoples OF bodies may do
Is OF small Importance compared
with what the people think.
! "In America 4 found more anti
british sentiment than in all my
forty years Of observation. As usual
Il was tangled up in the Irish trouble.
Americans do not bother themselves
with detail. They want Ireland to
nave as large measure Of self gov
ernr,ent as is consistent with the
safety oe the British empire. They
wish to give the minority sparticu-
|larly ample security from possible
oppression by the majority Of Irish
who differ from Ulster In economic
outlok.
I'm my judgment America does not
want ireland to be an Independent
republic, but until the British gov
ernment ceases to break its promises
to ireland, the American sentiment
viii be that the Irish are justified IN
!, asking anything they like"
Air Horact criticized the home
Sdu1e bill because It gave Ulster and
4 minority q virtual mandatory over
Ireland-a mandatory without re-
sponsibility.s