The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-13
The Peoples s Say
Conway Speaks

toward the movement for peace be- tween England and Ireland which ap- pears in your paper today under the name of Lynn w. Wilson conveys an 1mpr ression, though not at all new or accurate, totally at variance with the facts of the situation as they now evist and have existed a good many decades in the nine geographical dtvi- s1ons of the north of Ireland.
 Taking up MT. Wilson's purview of Ireland and the alleged Ulster prob fem categorica1ly. there is no basis whatever, no matter by what tortuous process of reasoning one may at-
 Ulster is cold and Sir James Craig, prime minister for Ulster shows to the world no great cordfality for recon ciliatfon and peace in Ireland"
 It is presumed of course that when MT Wilson announces that he has discovered Ulster Is co1d,'' that he is Writing in a pathological sense for do not think he experienced the c1i- mate any colder there in midsummer than it would be in Bridgeport at the same season. But when he includes the whole of Ulster in his characteri- zat.on of coldness towards Irish peace populatton he has certainly jumped wild Of the mark. For 1t is beyond gainsaying that MT. Wilson could hardly have famflia1zed himself with the sentiments of the people of Done gal, the largest county in Ulster, nor with those who reside in Mona ghan. SdNdH, tyrone, f-eTman0gh ana even the county of Derry, half of whose in habitants are proponents of national independence, not speak of Derry city itself, the second largest political con- stituency in the north which Is repre- sented by a Sim Fein deputy not in the Westminster Parliament of Bri- tain, but in the Dali Eireann of the Irish people.
 MT. Wilson, for all his admirable pro- fessions of sympathy with the ina1ien- able rights of small nations, failed to approach his analysis of IreIand's claim to justice and freedom while | visiting her shores without any pre- conceived theories or notions regard
 ing the efficacy" of the usurped | power of the predominant partner"
 in the legislative contract so adroitly
 if notorious1y, drawn up by Pitt and | Cast1ereagh one hundred and twenty | years ago.
 On the contrary, it is not difficult
 to imagine that, like most other peri i patetic journalists from America or
 elsewhere who write up'' Ireland as part of an enjoyable vacation, his sur vey was made through blue Specta cIes purchased in Sandy Row or the
 Shankhin road, Belfast, and made for | the purpose of glimpsing the maSsed stalwarts of Carson in Antrmf. Down | and Armagh lined up, metaphorically | it goes without saying, behind the | ditches ready to kick the Kings crown into the Boyne, if need be, as their | fathers threatened in the days of Vic | toria, should anything like a semb- | lance of justice be meted out by Eng | land to Ireland.
 | MT. Wilson committed his first
 grand error in picking up his informa- l tion about Ulster from the mob ora | tors of the Custom House steps and
 Orange lodges in Belfast. If he had | been more eager to get at the truth
 he should have gone farther afield
 and would have easily learned that
 practically one half of Listers popu-
 1ation are indubitab1y Sim Feiners
 and opposed to alien government of
 any sort in their country or province. The second romantic piece of fiction | in MT. Wilson's learned article is his l reference to the fact that ttSir James | Craig, prime minister for Ulster shows | to the world no great cordiality for re-
 conciliation and peace in Ireland.' | Now it is unfortunate that a student | of political science like MT. Wilson
 should far forget himself as to
 it is possible to establish a false
 premise-and consistently and logical
 ly arrive at an incontrovertible con
 clusion. There is nothing in mathe- matics that supports such an axiom.
 and neither is there anything in po1i- tical science. The fraction can never
 be greater than the whole, nor the | component section of the square greater than the square itself. How l it is conceivable, then, that Sir
 James Craig can act as the leader of Ulster, as an autominous entity, when | Ulster is but a section of a whole
 which includes three other sections and when even the Ulster which he
 claims to lead is merely a fraction
 of it's fractional self? Perhaps MT. | Wilson will explain this incongruity. 1 Referring to the Orange demonstra- 1 ton on the Twelfth in Belfast MT. Wilson ayers that there were some
 SO0,000 persons in line" and the in ference likely to be drawn from this 1 is that there were countless hundreds of thousands of Orangemen in Ulster on the Boyne anniversary who de- equivocally against the Irish peace proposals and Irish freedom.
 Being conversant with Ulster, it's people, and it's ways and having garn- their members, and what the num- Der, think this is the most fragrant fal1acy I have ever heard of or seen in the public press. The entire pop 100000, of this number 100,0 are Catholics who are staunchly in favor of Irish freedom. Among the so- called loyalists. however, there are Orangemen and all their works; these include, Liberals, Home Rulers. So- cialists and labor unionists whose vii sion is not marred by bigotry, fanatic ism or ignorance. Taking these facts into consideration and also having in mind that there are a goodly portion of infants and youths of both sexes in Belfast who are not matured enough to participate in the drunken orgies of the Twelfth; and also recollection that even among Bel lasts sanctimonious citizens a few of them stray into jail, the asylum or the workhouse once in a. while, it is more than a Chinese puzzle to fathom where MT. Wilson got his 300,000 marchers from on the Twelfth
 His faculty of observation, I am afraid, is of a piece with his editor ial judgment, and as a reporter he appears to be not less faulty than an editor.
 SEAN CONWAY. August 18th, 1921.