The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-10
Scrapping the ShiIalah.
[By the New York Trib's Special
Correspondentl

Being tiligraphed for hurriedly' from Wash
ington, where l was kaping a Watchful eye
on the Interests ay the Irish Republic in the
Far East / prisinted meself to me iditor as
per his imperative summons
Tim Murphy" SEE he. we We read av the
successful outcome the Irish negotiations?
II have not" SEE l.
"Ye we not read in the papers that ireland
is to be the Irish Free State and Ulster to
come in OF out as she plazes!' he asks in
establishment
81 have not" seq 1. Me eyes have been
turned exclusively to the Far East, where the
next immediate throuble for Ireland is like
to develop. This was in accordance with yer
own insthrucshuns to be lookin' for trouble.
Well" SEE he, handing me an A P. dis
patch the length av your arm, take look
at this" SEE he, "sn' thin go out an get the
views av the leadin' REPRESENTATIVES av Irish
opinion in New York upon the hardly won
freedom av their beloved country"
who will I go to-" seq 1.
'tYeu go to the divil for all care" SEE
the iGitor, who, being Scotch an a Presbyte-
rian from the North av Ireland is not as slow
to anger some others Fur the love ay
Mike don't you know the leaders of your own
cause? There's Cohalan an Golf an OLeary
an dozens av thin
IF you ask my opinion" seq I, thin is
not the people YOU want to express their views
on this important subject. It's time the voice
av the plain people was heard on the wrongs
Ireland, an by the same token it's me
friend O'Fiannigan that with your lave l will
spake to first on this matter, for OF1anni-
gans a good man, an by the howly saints he's
a plain one, none palmer" SEE L..
You can spake to who you damn well
PLACE, SO long as you git the story" SEE the
iditor, impatient like.
So~that was how | come to dhrop into
OFlannigan's place on Second Avenue, which
is cosy little place retaining still many av
the comforts home, in addition to the lunch
counter, where Irish shtew an Boston beans
ma ha 4 Mt IA Ia ri
Have We hurrd the news. OF1annigan?'
SEE 1, whin 1 had greeted him an found that
the stuff passable.
F'Phwat news?" SEE he.
"Phwat~- news," l repates Have We no
education, O'Flannigan, or do ye not read the
papers, that we've failed to see the successful
outcome aV the Irish negotiations?
Might ye name the talk there has been
with the dhirrty English?" seq he "The same"
seq I.
ITO hell wild the English" seq O.Gannigan,
splitting upon the floor.
Il am wild you,' seq l. And l should know"
l seq, after observing in Washington there
the wrongs they are like to put upon Irish
lLthrests in the Far East But my boss has
slnt me to you to get shtory, an shtory
I'm goin' to get.'
'Phwat kind a shtory?' SEE OFlannigan
The ignorance the man" l seq "A
newspaper shtory course | want to know
phwat you think av the outcome av the nego-
tiations which makes Ireland a free shtate and
SEE Ulster can come in and out as the fancy
takes her"
I've tould you phwat 1 think" SEE
O'Flannigan.
we've tould me to hell with tie English
SEE |, which is no more than any dacent man
would say. l want your individual opinion
on the wisdom av the irish Republic becoming
the Irish Free Shtate."
Just thin man put his foot on the rail
beside me whom recognized to be Mike Sui
Ivan that got himself job in the Federal
prohibition enforcement office.
"Phwat are We talkin' about the Irish Free
Sntate" questions Mike. But O'Flannigan had
lent over the bar an was graspin'- his dbrink
an mine wild both hands, holdin' thin well
above his head.
Mike Sullivan" SEE he, tell me the trutb
before desthroy the ividince Are We on
business or on pleasure?'
On pleasure" SEE Mike. "Phwat dive think
l am am, seq he' "a dhirrty spy? Phwat'n ye
haveE seq he, turning to me-
told him, an OFlannigan mt the glasses
Dack where they rightly belonged n
We was talkin'," seq I, about his Irish
= rec stare which is proposed as the result ay
tons in London. Phwat might Won thru az
it?" SEE l. '0u 'nihA DIV
He took the A P.'s dispatch which tho
to read it, ~ i '0u
Who might this Lloyd George be soy
ne, VINO Is deshcribed as the prime mover in
heSe negotiations?
The English Prime Minister" seq
Ye admit that?" seq he
Ay course l admit it," SEE l. WHY would !
10 hell wild the dhirrty English" SOY bo |
lnlsh that an let's have another 'Tis toimaI
was Dack on the job at Enforcement hsad9
quarters" neau-
It's a hell of shtory I've got 10 ao
BACK to my boss with" seq I to O,ETanHjoeeo
"hen Mike Sullivan had departed "Phwat 6iI1
10! Can We not think av ANYTHING to Gov
Jul phWat livery dacent man saws? Have "a
10 Wurrd OF tubilashun that Ireland bss 80
iei o Teeoom an her long STRUGGLE is overs', |
OF1annlgan filed them again an, beid h;s
70 the hgnt, wild his head on one side an, bis !
'yes shcrewed up OIL us
Sure, SEE he, Its the Door bbovs Tn,
nlnkln aV In this sorrowful hour. Them &C
laS gwen their lives to the cause phwst
I'll r they De doin at all at all, if the dhirrtv
,Egnsh mas effected q settlement behind their
'se .h an lhls free country turns a deaf ear
o the woes ay Irelahd?' ~A col
- - mas thrue," seq 1. Il hadn't thought
thirty English" i "to' the
To hell'wi thsm." seq oFlannigan.
WE trust Mr. Murphys story has entertained
on as much as it did us. We hayen,t con-
NEG aEeolyum since Thanksgiving dav that
ave US SO much real pleasure If there he L
nose who do not like today's coIyum fbev
WE'LL. they may take it for granted that We