Arizona republican., 1921-07-06
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY $, 1921.
To most men, experience IS like the stern lights Sf q ship ach5ch illunaine only tue track tt has passed.
 -Coleridge
MT. Harvey speaks Again

Nothing could have been more elegantly ex- pressve and humorous than Lord Lee of Farchams ailusion to Ambassador Harvey at the London In dependence Day dinner-"A foreigner to whom the rnuxxle Of diplomacy had not been obtrusive."
 But Colonel Harvey said nothing at that dinner to which objection could be taken unless the Irish might find it in the following:
 If George the Third had issued a proclamation even approximating in eloquent sincerity and ap- pealing that uttered the other day by George the Fifth his faithful endeavo to reconcile a tion. there would have been ringing of bells Philadelphia 145 this night. nor for many years thereafter"
 There is in this an implied withholding of sym pathy from the Irish-s something more than hint that their reasonable complaints by the king in his recent Dublin address. But throughout the paragraph there Is pleasant graceful bunk aI- 1owable because of circumstnnces and casion- We think that the Irish will not be 'embittered. They themselves masters of fbIarney" and are quick to recognize it.
 George the Third possessed. certain powers which George the Fifth does not possess. American paragrapher recently put it. while George is the Fifth, Lloyd George Is Four Fifths. What the king might have told the Irish and what the premier might have assented to would have been widely different things The king little nothing with the Irish any other important matter atfecting the British pire-
 Though nomlnaly the c0nstltuuonal powers or George the Third were much greater than those of the present king exepcsed 80 much greater power either by his influence the ministry or the ministry's influence upon him. that we Accus regard him chiefly responsible for the pression of America. English statesmen of his day since. have held responsible for the loss of colonies. However gracious and complaisant third George might have been. almost certainly there would have come separation from the mother country. It is true. Ms Harvey safd if the king had been just there would have been ringing of the bells Philadelphia 145 years ago this night but the bells would have rrlng some other night MT Harvey though had covered himself in his preface whether the territory comprising the United States could have been retained is wholly speculative"
 There were already in this country. though small minority of the millions, many who favored a separation from England however just 1t may have been- There thosa of Dutch descent those of French descent comparatively few Irish birth or descent to whom England was then hateful Then too. world emigration to the west, though it had not yet set in heavily inevitable that with in century should have had population that would have demanded separation. It would probably have been secured with great difficulty have been preceded by a civil war for there would been large element which would have adhered to a just England as Washington. the Adamses and Jefferson would have done If England had been just
 That Great Britain peacefully retained its other English speaking colonies is partly because they have remained English-but slightly tinctured with foreign populations; partly because Great Britain profiting by experience with America has allowed them almost. unlimited self government; all .-lt nominal controa of their affairs