Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-17
HEARS VIEWS
(Continued from Pace One)

CLIMB into the Sldecar OF Il motor
cycle and don goggles, which effect
ually blindfolded him. The car sped
through Dublin by an intricate route.
and after an indeterminate period the
correspondent found himself in a we'll
furnished living room. Then he was
in the presence of De Valera. After
leaving, the correspondent was held
up and examined, first by members of
the Irish republican army within sight
of the presidents residence. and second
fortuitously by the military.
When he was asked if he intended
to issue a st. Patricks day message,
particularly to the people of America,
Mr.. De Valera said:
Il think the people of America un-
derstand. and if the other people of
the world have not realized that it is
might and right 'contending in this
awful STRUGGLED they are left cold
when it is SO evident that it is a
great principle at stake, for which
millions Of the bravest of many coun-
1t would be futile to endeavor to move
them by mere words.
+ Those whom midnight assassips,
callous executions, wanton shootings,
torturings. lootings, devastations fail
ed to touch. no message could affect.
These will continue to dream. Per-
haps of some future day when JUS
holding that vigorous. concrete aid
which alone could hake their dreams
come true.
For the past four or five years We
have been appealing to and conscien-
tiously trying to mobilize the moral
: forces of the world. Our experience
has beenFthat those loudest in the APP
Lalone are precisely those who show
the least inclination to give us prac-
tical aid by their actions. Am / my
brothers keeper Itfear, is long going
to remain the philosophy of mankind
Mr.. De Valera declared there was
no truth in the rumors in the overtures
for peace or that the Dalieranne had
laid new conditions.
There could be peace tomorrow if
England would simply refrain from
her aggressions," he asserted. I'VE
had established a peace government
and We're setting a wonderful exam
pile of a government.
Against this horde We will never
cease to defend ourselves to the ut
most of our power"
Questions as to whether the offer of
full fiscal autonomy would induce ac-
ceptance of the Partition Act, he re-
piled:
THE Partitian Act is the act of a
hostile assembly; the Irish people as
a whole will never accept it. The
people, even of the six counties, were
never consulted about it in any recog-
nized way. 1t was designed to per-
petuate division and sectional ran
cor among Irishmen.'
While no definite agreement yet
had been reached between the Sim
Fein and the adherents of the Irish
party in Ulster with respect to the
elections under the partician act,
such an agreement would not be diff
ficult when the time for action ar
rived, said Mr.. De Valera. It was
a mistake to suppose that only ma
tionalists and republicans opposed
partition. That would be proved
when the elections came. go"
Industrial Ulster" he said, SIS not
so blind to its own interests as to
court being severed from it's great
market in the agricultural areas Of
the rest of Ireland. The boycott of
Belfast goods which is operating
now. is but the opening stage Of what
would become complete and abso-
lutte exclusion of Belfast goods if the
partition act is put into effect"
Declaring that the difficulty of the
program was not the attitude of III
ser but the attitude of England Mr.
De Valera concluded: "It is to the
interest of no section of Irishmen to
keep differences alive, but of certain
English politicians and statesmen
who desire these differences as a
cloak to their imperial greed"