New-York tribune., 1922-01-05

DC BLlN, Jan. (By The Associated
Press Following is the text of De
Valers's manifesto to the Irish people:
Fellow citizens: You are in danger.
Influences moro deadly to the nation
feced by an enemy than q plague in
the ranks CT its army are at work
among you. The instinct in you for
reace ard repose, as natural after the
period of strain you have passed
through IS the craving for food in the
farished, is being played upon. If
-ou give way. you are undone; all you
have gained will be lost and all the
sacrlices you have made will be in
vain.
The cry OF peace. peace, will not
hrlng you peace; not now any more
lAan q year ago, and those who shout
It viii lead you not to peace, but to
another betrayal.
Have You already forgotten that
-thc-hand' home rule on the
statute book? The emhers OF bonfires
s-e still blacll on the slopes Of Errigal.
<'it is not those who would hold you
q. your ranks calm and firm, while
Tou take voar bearing and see
yhitner you 4rc going or are being
ed, who woul1 create chaos, but those
v7ho hysterically shout it and try to
make you gll as panic stricken as
themselves It is easy to induce rout;
t is hard 70 checl, it once it has begun.
+ you had q national press it would
vern you. buc Your press is a press
chat when thc enemy was actively
making war upon you cbeyed it's die
eates and allowed itself to be used in
-he work Of sspping your morale from
Gay to day; press that during the re-
cent negotiations was quoted in Lon
don against the delegates Of the ma
tion when they 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 it dared.
To-day. availing of the opportunity
and under the shelter of honored
names, this press, instead Of bidding
you beware, urges you to a stampede
fu1, stampede that would expose you
to the attack Of an enemy no less than
TO the pity or contempt of the world
whose admiration your heroism has
just won.
"Oh. do not allow yourselves to be
rushed into registering inconsiderately
8 decision which you yourselves will
live to deplore and which generations
to come will curse YOU for
Ireland Would Be Wrong
"Do not pretend to set the seal Of
your approval on settlement that YOU
know cannot be 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
morale foundation of Ireland's fight for
her freedom. Do not enter upon
compact which in your hearts you know
can never be kept in sincerity and in
crust, no matter how worthy.
"They are neither good friends to
ireland, nor to England. nor to hu-
manity, 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 a gun
nor an ounce of lead in Ireland you
should say it.
"You are being asked to give your
consent and approval to treaty estab-
fishing 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 |
70 bind yourselves with your own |
aands. Do not forget it-you are asked |
. give your parole. Refuse, as in
1onor you must, if you do not mean to
zeep it.
Genuine Peace Possible
"A combination Of circumstances
'uch IS occurs but once in the rela-
ions of warning peoples has created
a opportunity Ct genuine feeoncilia-
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