The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-04-08
Probers Blame England
for Disorders in Ireland

an inquisition upon the territory
that individuals are in possession of
information valuable to the military
forces Of Great Britain. These acts
Of the imperial British forces are
contrary to the laws Of peace or war
among modern civilized nations.
"6. This terror has failed to re-
establish imperial British civil gov
eminent in Ireland. Turnout the
greater part of Ireland British
courts have ceased to function; local
county and city governments refuse
to recognize British authority, and
British civil officials FULFILL no func-
ton of service to the Irish people.
''7. In spite of the British ter
ror' the majority of the Irish people
have sanctioned by ballot the Irish
republic, give their allegiance to it:
pay taxes to it, and respect the de-
cisions of its courts and of it's civil
officials"
The commission also declared
that "the situation in Ireland was 6
proper subject of concern for ali
peoples claiming either humanity o..
civilization" saying that ''it ap-
pealed particularly to Americans SO
closely bound by ties of blood and
culture to the Irish and British peo-
ple." Unless moral force could pre-
vail to end the terror in Ireland,
the commission pointed out, "physi
cal force seemed bound to continue
both to deny the possibility of peace
in Ireland and to diminish the posi-
bility of non-intervention of our
government in the struggle"
cit seemed to us" says the COM
mission, that we could best serve
the cause of peace by placing before
the English, Irish and American
public the facts of the situation, free
from both agonized exaggeration
and moral upderstatement; for a
knowledge of the facts might reveal
their cause and recognition Of that
cause might permit its cure, by those
whose purpose was not to slay but
to heal"
In touching upon the events lead
us to the present crisis, the report
,.,... stnl,o ooutrol Foot IN tho
Irish situation is the presence of the
British in Ireland, and to 700 years
spent in trying to pacify Ireland, and
the British naturally desire to con-
tinue to possess Ireland, for they
are proud of their empire, Jealous
of it's integrity and anxious about
its security"
The report points out that the
Irish as result of their resort to
arms in 1888, 1898, 1903. 1S4S and
1867, have won from the British
parliament the abolition of penal
! laws against Roman Catholics, dis
establishment of the Irish church,
liberal land laws and, finally, the
Irish home rult act which was
passed by the house of lords and
commons and signed by the king in
1914. cat the behest of the British
Tories. under Sir Edward Carson
the report says, "that act was sus-
pended for the duration of the war
and was later rendered void by a
superseding act which partitioned
Ireland"
The commission in referring to
the Ulster rebelling of 1914 which
it SAYS, was started by the Tories
to fight Home Rule, charged that
Carson and other leaders who had
imported arms from Germany and
had set up provisional government
in Belfast we're forgiven and pro
NOTED to high offices in the British
government.
ireland Declares Independence
CATER this" the repor.. says, ''ir
1915, lrlSn ,pOctS, tcdCA0iS "lNe ASss"
ers. with less than 1000 follower
rose in rebellion and declared Ire
lands independence. Confronted b!
the Irish declaration of Independ
ence, the imperial British govern
ment poured additional troops int
ireland. The rebellion was crushed
in April, 1916. The imperial British
government then continued to pou
troops into Ireland. The Irish to al
increasing degree were deprived o
civil and social liberty. Such Britisl
rule lasted until December IA, 1915
when, at the conclusion Of a wa
avowedly fought for the rights O
small nations the Irish people Il
the general election held unde
British auspices, gave the endorse
, ment Of their suffrage to the Iris
republic which was the election issu
, in Ireland. In fulf'llment of thel
I pledge the elected representative
: Of the Irish republic met in congress
(the Dali Eirann) at Dublin, organ
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