Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-04-14
COMMISSION IN
REPORT; REPLY
Conditions in Ireland Are Investi-
gated and Answer Is Made by
the British Government

A few days ago the American Com
mission on Conditions in Ireland sol
Fifth avenue, New York, made it's re-
port and Great Britain has replied. A
newspaper report, also extracts, have
been printed in the Milwaukee News,
an anti-English paper, and clipping
has been sent to this office by Miss
Anne Donaghey, 215 Fifth street,
Baraboo. Tie clipping in part says:
England is charged with having
turned loose upon the defense1ess and
peaceful people of Ireland a force Of
$4,000 young, inexperienced, or vic
ious convict troops, and melted by
terrorist propaganda and drink.
GAS result of this terror, men,
women and children have been indis-
Grim ;nately killed; young men have
been deliberately assassinated, hOus-
es, villages and cities have been put
to the torch, industries have been
ruined, farms laid waste, crops de-
stroyed and farm animals wantonly
killed.
"It is probably the worst indictment
ever leveled by an impartial Ameri-
can tribunal against a government.
The British are charged with viola
ton of all laws and all moral decen-
,cies. Neither national nor interna-
tional law countenances the conduct
of the British in Ireland, the report
declares. Neither is there anything
in the laws of war to justify the ex-
tremity of cruelty and barbarism
which the imperial British forces
practice upon the peaceful people of
the land.
"This is the humane aspect of the
report. In it's stead, the Irish people,
out that this terrorism" if intended
not merely to annihilate- people the
British cannot conquer, but to re
stablish the overthrow British rule,
has been futile.
British imperial government has
ceased to exist in Ireland, says the
report. I nits stead the Irish people,
despite the oppression of the military,
are recognizing only the government
they themselves have set up, and to
which they are giving answering and
obedient loyalty.
''The commissions indictment
against the British government char
ges misrule, terrorism, wanton des-
truction of life and property, the set
ting at naught the rights of a race,
the absolute and willful violation of
Ill the laws of God, man and nations,
the ignoring of all the basic prin-
ciples Of civilization, in a futile eff
tort to rule or ruin people that will
not be enslaved.
The findings of the American Com
mission on Conditions in Ireland are
n effect the findings of more than
$50 of the leading citizens of America,
representing every race, every creed,
Ind every stratum of society.
the other Side
The British embassy, Washington,
speaking for the home government,
n part replies:
L u6 I0pUIL VI Tie COmuISSlOu On
conditions in Ireland is entitled to
Exactly the amount of weight which
hould be given to any judgment bas-
ID entirely upon ex parte statements
Tut forward for the most part by
'ersons admittedly holding extreme
Jews. 1t is biased and wholly mis-
eading, both in its general conclus-
ons and in the statements it con-
aims in matters of detail.
ireland, so far from being a de-
astated country, is the most pros {
erous part of the united kingdom
nd probably of the whole of west
IN Europe. Deposits in joint-stock l
anks increased as follows: 1914,
100000; 1919, 9166,000, 900;
800, e20O, O0O,00 t
'"Fhe report of the committee lays {
.ress on so-called reprisals and ig-B !;