The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-04

men, W11cn on one side was cdueQ assassination and on the other exc cution. These killings of unarmed men were conducted by the Irish re- publican army in this way.
 Any Black and Tan against whom no charge existed except that of sery- ing the British government might gu about unarmed as freely as an Amer ican citizen with a passport. If he were suspected of certain sort or offence against woman or had been overzealous in carrying out raids, that man was as good as dead. The same was true if he was suspected of being a spy. Overzealousness in raids means this: The British forces in Ireland are constantly searching for evidence to show that fellows are rebels and raiding parties go about ssnt held against them. If the raid ing party carries on the search in the regular way and doesn't insult anybody, doesn't break anything in the house or destroy anything unnec- essarily, they are not >molested, but if member of the raiding party makes himself disagreeable and insults woman, or wilfully destroys anything. armed forces of the Irish republic wherever that man may be found.
 "Of course, you will understand that in such a system, mistakes are
 undoubtedly made. There is no form
 of war that can be carried on one hun dred per cent. correctly. I presume they get a man sometimes that isn't a spy. In Dublin I was told that the
 system is reasonably effective and the | minimum of error is made.
 "On the other side, whenever a.
 member of the Black and Tans is | killed, they try to get the man re- | sponsfble, but they haven't the same | facilities the Republicans have, and | they much more often get the wrong
 man. The reason is that the (Republi- can government is in fact the govern
 ment of Ireland and has been for a long time. The English governm ent and where armed forces gather. When the armed men move, the gov ernment goes. The republican au- thority is universal throughout Ire land The Sim Fein government is the authority in control of Ireland. ''I don't know how many men they have under arms and I wou1d't tell you if I did, but I can say they have sand men under better discipline than an ordinary army.
 When I was in southern Ireland 1t was 99 per cent. republican There interests who were slow about coming in, but they were coming out. Many loyalists, strange to say, have been converted by the Black and Tan know Ireland. They don't know what they call loyal Irishman from what they call a disloya1 Irishman. When they have difficulties and somebdly gets. killed, they go down the street seeing red and the first Irishman they come across they make an example of Frequently they get loyalist, and each time they do that, they make lot of new republicans" :" Referring to the unity of the Irish people, Mir. Wilson said: 'I don't know historically where any people have been such a unit in the presence of despearte peril in favor of the in dependence which they desire"
 The warfare carried on in Ireland, MT. Wilson described as relatively frugal of blood and property but un- speakably terrible in the anguish 1t inflicted on the people as a whole, as- serting that in ordinary wars the people behind the lines enjoy com parative safety, but in Ireland no one is safe and the only happy people are the boys on the hills who have a chance to do some fighting. In clos ing he paid a brief tribute to the constitutiona1iStS who preceded the Irish leaders of today, and said that their contribution has been to make the Irish people capable of making a more intelligent fight than they could ever have waged before, when force gecame necessary.