The New York herald., 1922-01-05

are going or are being led. who would
create chaos, but those who hysterically
shout it and try to make you all as
panicstricken as themselves. 1t is easy
to induce rout 1t is hard to check H.
once It has begun.
''If you had a national press It would
warn you. but your press is press that.
when the enemy was actively making
war upon you. obeyed its dictates and
allowed itself to be used in the work of
sapping your morals from day to day; a
press that curing the recent negotia-
tions was quoted In London against the
delegates of the nation when tney tried
to represent your true aspiration: a
press that last July, when the British
proposals were made would have broken
your discipline. a discipline that had
brought you safe through every peril.
and led to rout even then, had II dared.
<To-day. availing OF the opportunity
and under the shelter Of honored names,
this press. instead OF bidding you be-
ware, urges you to a stampede as dam
gerous as 1t would be disgraceful, a
stampede that would expose you to the
attack of an enemy no less than to the
pity OF contempt of the world whose ad-
nliration your heroism has just won.
"Oh, do not allow yourselves TO be
rushed into registering inconsiderately a
decision which you yourselves live to
deplore and which generations to come
will curse you for.
"Do not pretend to set the seal OF
your approval on a settlement that you
know cannot be a settlement. Do not
for the first time In her history allow
Ireland to be put in the wrong as re-
CARDS England. Do not impair the
moral foundation OF Ireland's fight for
her freedom. Do not enter upon COM
pact which In your hearts you know
can never be kept In sincerity and in
trust, no matter how worthy.
'They are neither good friends to Ire
land nor to England, nor to humanity.
who advise you to take that course. Be
bold enough to say mo- to those that ask
you to misrepresent yourselves. If there
were not q gun nor an ounce OF lead
in Ireland. you should say it.
You are being asked to give your
consent and approval to treaty es-
tablishing British authority in Ireland,
not as you were asked: Formerly to
work an act of the British Parliament
thrust upon you. You are being asked
60 bind yourselves with your own
hands. Do not forget it-you are asked
to give your parole. Refuse, as In
honor you must, il you do not mean to
keep It..
"A combination of circumstances such
as occurs but once In the relations of
warning peoples has created an oppor-
tunity of genuine reconciliation between
ireland and England. Save 1t from be-
ing lost through the shortsighted exc
pediency Of politicians. 1t Is not poll
ticiaps who must come to an agree
ment but peoples.
A Question for the People.
"Reconciling the politicians does not
reconcile the peoples. These cannot be
reconciled so long as the old grounds
for fear and distrust between them re-
main. You know that they will remain
under the terms Of the treaty that Is
now proposed to you. DO not plunge
the peoples of these islands into another
120 years of hatred and bitterness such
as that which has passed since former
so-calbsd treaty of union was made.
ITO the utmost limit to which they
could so our delegates have gone to ar
rive at an agreement such as this ma
tion could freely accept--gone vclun-
tarily and willingly in genuine desire
for peace and in full appreciation of the
governing conditions. BY the threat of
war they were dragged beyond that
limit, and the deed and circumstances
will ever be remembered by Irishmen
as the crowning act Of infamy of Eng
lands rulers against Ireland. Peace OF
good will was set aside. and a peace
that cannot be peace. shamelessly i'm
posed.
"It Is not thus that enduring COM
pacts and lasting peace are made. You.
the people. can retrieve the position even
at this eleventh hour. The policy YOU
stand by. that will always be practical