The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-21

l Hall, all DlaCkened mass or burned ruins. Yet, the Irish farmer and tradesman went on his way, all the time working, and made his native country pay her way.
 PEACEFUL DUBLIN
 We have peace here today. for the time being, at all events: yet nobody knows what tomorrow may bring forth Irish politics are as uncertain as an April day The sky may be bright one moment, the next the rain clouds appear. Similarly. when all ! looks black and dreary some favor able wind comes to brighten the hor- iaon Despite the many disappoint- ments of seeing freedom SO often snatched from it's grasp, when. every thing seemed assured, Ireland has always returned to the fight again. The betrayal of the Nationalist party by the British Radical Government in 1914 was the seyerest blow, probably, that Irishmen's faith in English statosmanship ever received But it did not dampen their ardor in the least in the fight to live their own lives in their own way new fight, with new men with different meth ods. became necessary. The change was radical. and whether success will at last he theirs or whether all the waste of lives and treasure the next few weeks will tell It is esti- mated that fifty million pounds worth of property was destroyed in Erin during the last two years. and if there were added to this the money that the Irish people threw into the fighting chests of the Irish Republi- can Army and the Sim Fein organi- zation. the bill would be indeed a formidable one Yet. though it was an offense to either collect or sub scribe to Sim Fein or the I. R. A.. punishable with anything from two to ten years imprisonment. the Irish leaders never lacked funds: the peo- pie were always only too ready to come forward with their pennies or their pounds
 LACK CONFIDENCE
 Ireland may again ba disappointed the Irish man and woman is never overconfident about anything in the political world nowadays. Ire land will be ready to fight the fight again. Speaking to the people. one learns that they do not in tho least mind again facing the curfcw nights. when one had to be indoors some times as early as 3 and o'clock in the evening The Irish Republican Army young men. are prepared 10 go back again to the hills to fight guerilla war ten times more terrible than the last They know they can not gain q military decision over Britain, but nevertheless they are prepared to sacrifice their lives in order to give the next generation of Trishmen the "Quados." as they say, handing down the tradition their forcfathers gave to them. But it is the women of Ireland. the young, pretty colleens especially, that are bubhlinE over with patriotism for their motherland I know of several districts where the young girls will not talk to any young man unless he is a volunteer In backward recruiting districts. where few men joined. one of the officers at the headquarters of the l. R A. told me that the girls formed themselves into recruiting companies and got every available man to become a member of the Re publican Army.
 The Irish colleens have during the last two years devoted all their spare tir:n in the interests of the vOlun- tcers They have either been mem bers of the Nursing Corps. clerks at the Battalion Headquarters, dispatch carriers or secret agents. WHO. WIIH all the vile of a woman, got val uable secrets from high Govern ment officials The women of Ire land have suffered much in the nights of bombing and rifle fire, but they are cheerfully ready to face the battle again with their brothers. Irish patriotism has something in it that is unconquerable. There is a something in 1t that-though the young man and girl are compelled to emigrate-their wish is always to die in the home land.
 T0D CATF