The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-09

SldIcu l ItSS - fellS lOuS dSpeCIS Ol the trouble in Ireland are discussed in report which supplements the 3O,OOO-word findings of the commits sion of the committee of One Hun dred Investigating the Irish question. The supplementary report, made by the Protestant members of the com summarizes the evidence presented at the hearings held here in November, December and Janu- ary, as follows;
 1. Outside of part of Ulster, Catholics and Protestants live in peace and harmony and their politi- cal opinions are not primarily a mat ter of religion.
 2. Even in Ulster religious big otry is not by any means wholly spontaneous, but is artificially stirred up by those whose economic and political interests are served by dividing the people.
 3. While it obviously lies beyond our province to pass final judgment upon the various aspects of the Ulster issue, we have not only a right but a duty as American Protestants to denounce the degradation of re- ligion by such pogroms as occurred last summer. Upon this subject we owe it to our fellow relgionists both in America and in Ulster, to speak plainly"
 All of the members of the commits sion, excepting United States Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who were chosen by the committee to conduct the inquiry, are Protestants These members are Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago; L. HollingWorth Wood, lawyer, New York; Frederick c. Howe, former United States com missioner of immigration, New York; James H. Maurer, president American Federation of Labor of Pennsylvania; i; Major Oliver P. Newman, formerly commissioner of the District of Col umbia; United States Senator George w. Norris of Nebraska and Rev. Norman Thomas of New York
 No examination of the Irish situ ation can ignore the religious issue, says the report. Tt seemed peculiar ly appropriate that the Protestan members should deal with the sub ject in view of the overwhelming pre- dominance of Roman Catholics in Ire land and the charge sometimes heard | in Protestant circles that Republican sentiment has it's chief origin in ec clesiastical agitation"
 The only evidence before the com mission concerning serious religious controversy resulting in the destruc tion of life and property dealt with | the Ulster riots of the summer ot 1920, the report says. Unable to ob tain testimony from eye-witnesses ol any member of societies devoted tC the cause of Protestant ascendency ir
 Ulster" the commission says 1t heard the testimony of three individual non Catholics two of whom were Ameri can citizens and the third "a British citizen of Scotch Presbyterian stock"
 AS in the case of the major report the testimony of witnesses taken be fore this committee was made public at the time it was given.
 Referring to the Belfast disorders beginning July 21, 1920, in which by the end of August, 56 persons were killed, the commission observed that these riots between Protestants and Catholics in which Protestants were the aggressors partook of the char acter of Russian pogrom against the Jews"
 One of the witnesses, Mrs. Annot Robinson, the report said, declared that in October 1920 she visited Ulster and found that more than 10000 expelled workers and their |. Some of them, the report said, were expelled not only from their jobs but from their homes. The victims, it continued were predominantly Catholics, though among them were Protestants suspected of labor, So- cialist or Sim Fein sympathies."
 The killing of District Commits sioner Smyth in Cork, the election of 25 men who were not Orange men" to the Belfast city council, whose total membership is 50; the alleged expulsion of 4,OOO nationalist workers from the Belfast shipyards; and the destruction of the town of Lisburn, just outside of Belfast, were designated as "an appalling record of a revival of religious strife"
 "The Ulster pogroms," the report continued "uara moi 1rinoar riIv d,,a