The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-20

Public Ledger, Dec. IT, 1s1e.)
 BY OUR OWN CoiRRDsFoNDENT.
 GPECnAL CABGM DrsPATCH.) Copyright, 1s1s, by Public Ledger Co.
 London, Jan. 2o.--It was in lead ing editorial, under the heading "The Foreign Executive" that the Free mans Journal of Dublin, sang it's swan song. In another column the editors explain that by foreign ex- ecutive" is meant all ministers of English rule in Ireland from the vii ceroy and his chief secretary down to tn rawest constafbulary recruit. Your correspondent has obtained q copy of the early edition of the Free mans Journal containing the @Adi- 1 toria1 which caused the suppression and seizure of the newspaper by the military authorities. The editorial fol- lows:
 "The miserable Irish executives are reduced to the pass of attempting to conscript the civil service as a supple ! mentary police force. They have at their disposal over 60.000 troops, with all the equipment of modern war, air planes, tanks, machine guns and gas They have in addition 14,o00 men in the shape of a rnilitarized police force. But their 75,o0o or sO,O0O men are not sufficient even for the ordinary work of keeping the peace.
 Burglars, footpads, hfghwayynen l and garotters are enjoying a halcyon time. They conduct their enterprises without risk to themselves or conse- quences to themselves.
 What opportunities of fair and ! market had been left by the govern ment to certain districts Of Ireland, the highwaymen are suspending by their operations and thus effectively supplementing the ukase. In their pitiable plight the executives have now conceived the idea of irnpressing the Irish civil servants.
 "Tn similar circumstances in other countries if similar circumstance es were now any longer possible in any country inhabited by a European race - the government would call upon the ordinary citizen for assist ance and it would be freely forth coming. But here the call would be like the summons of Glendower to the spirits of the vastly deep and re- ceive the same answer.
 "As far as support of the civilian population is concerned, the govern ment exists in vacuo, it is steadily dying for want of oxygen, but as it dies [ becomes, like the wasp, more poissiously active. Its difficulties are of its own creation. The police have been diverted from their ordinary duties to support an unsupportalble political regime. Hence their impo- tence to discharge the functions ot the police force, and hence +1o real criminal thrives as the political crim- inal is manufactured.
 There is another motive for the pressing of civil servants. The 1oya, oath was not a sufficient test for the Orange administration. A new test had to be invented. Just as Father ODonneu was persecuted and prose- cuted and slansdered because he was only loyal to King GeorPo and not to Lloyd George, the civil servants are to be judged by their readiness te serve the coercionists. Those who ] refuse will be marked men, but they should not be too anxious. A gov ; ernment reduced to such straits can. , not long survive.''
 sProstitution or Government" In another column of the same is ] sue the Freeman's Journal scores lar IMacPherson, Irish chief secretar1 and Lord French, the >iceroy, under the heading: Prostitution or Gov. ernment. How Official Lawlessnes. Operates in Ireland. Criminals il High Places" Concerning the Brit ish Governments proposed settlemen of the Irish question, the suppressed newspaper went on to say:
 Most pathetic in very truth ant 5 calculated to provoke tears of laugh ! ter is the implied eagerness of th lrDublin Castle officials for a settle ment One can sur1nise without mak ing two guesses what that blesse' a word means in their acceptance 0 < it's sense--Ireland bludgeoned into in s sensibility, swathed in cerements am coffined--while they enjoy peace il their days of salaries, rewards, hon
 ors and pensions.
 But no sooner did word cosn
 across the Irish Sea that there was
 possibility of a settlement of the Iris
 question by Parliament than some
 body, dined overwel1 - it would b
 indiscreet to say where--and fortiffe'
 by the cheerful exhortation of his ia
 1niliars, swore mighty oath to en
 all this damned nonsense. I wi
 crush the verrnin uIIdlerfoot' fby tn
 way, veracious history records tha
 many of the worlds great and sma
 wornls). Accordingly on Thursda
 morning strong detachments of tn
 army of occupation raided up an down through Dublin, breaking int
 houses, seizing what they could an
 making prisoners of honest men wa
 are suspected of Nationalist princi pies and hlrrying them off unoe
 armed escort to an armed British shi
 that appeared opportunely oE Kings
 town. As a grand windup, Mansio
 House was seized; the fact that it
 the official residence of the chic
 magistrate of Dublin who owes ths
 place of honor to the suffrage of cit
 zens was no protection.
 Tho Irish Fair as an Issue.
 There was a reason for the ou
 rage. For many years the Irish Tai
 for the exhibition and sale of Irisf
 made goods, has been one of the fes
 cures of the Christmas season in Dul lin. It's organizers had in view b,
 one object, the rendering of assis
 ance to the makers of Irish wares |
 bring -fg them into direct conta,
 with buyers on a large or small seal
 No distinction of politics, creed
 race was known. No profit was nlat
 or sought Ey those who bore u
 t-heavy burden of organizing the Ii