New-York tribune., 1922-09-11
Bishop Turner
Begs That U. S.
Shl11l De Valera
Buffalo Catholic PreIate,
Marooned i'm Ireland 3
Months, Warns sAnlerica
He Deserves No Help
Calls His Men Bandits
90 p. C. of Erin for Free
State and Treaty Griffith
and Collins Made, He Says

American people with sympathetic
leanings toward the followers of De
Valera and the Irish republic were
warmed last night by the Right Rev.
William Turner, Roman Catholic bishop
of Buffalo, to send no money to the
republican cause.
The prelate had spent the last three
months in ireland, his birthplace, and
familiarized himself with conditions
throughout the country. When he came
to port last night from Queenstown
on the White Star liner Adriatic he
not alone repudiated De Valera, with
whom he had been on frienil terms
while in the United States, but issued
plea to the American people to
know the truth of the situation and
pin their faith to the cause of the Free
State
Bishop Turner said that the follow
ers Of the republican cause were made
up Of handful or misguided, erratic
persons, whose bent had diverged along
tise lines of banditry; that their en-
deayors were hopeless, and that any
sane person who had been in Ireland
within the last three months could not
but see the overwhelming strength of
the ndherents of the Irish Free State.
Pays Tribute to British
The Bishop explained on his arrival
that he was speaking freely and impair
tally, guided solely by the facts as he
saw them in Ireland. He paid high
tribute to Britain and her sincerity in
dealing with the Irish people. He said
that the Free Staters hid every conf
dence in the steadfastness and honesty
of England in dealing with the Irish
question and that SO per cent OF the
i1ish people would stand to the last in
upholding the treaty that was signed
by Collins and Griffith.
Bishop Turner said that the Ameri-
can people should know that Great
Britain and the British people were
more patient and conciliatory with the
Irish people throughout all their in
ternal v;cissitudes than are the Amer
lean people. Britain, he said, knows
the situation thoroughly and is kindly
and considerate with the adherents of
the Free State and will stand by them
until there is perfect harmony and
satisfactory adjustment of national
affairs in Ireland.
While discussing the situation last
night on the Adriatic as she steamed
UP the Bay from Quarantine, Bishop
Turner said:
81 have been in Ireland for nearly
three months. have been marooned
in the house of my sister in Kiilmal-
lock, my birthplace, and have minis
tered to those who have fallen into
the misguided republican cause
Soul of Erin Sound
"The conviction which bring with
me from Ireland is that, in spite of all
that has happened during my stay
there, the soul of Ireland is still right
and if we ere only patient little while
longer we shall see realized all our
hopes for, free, peaceful and pros
porous Ireland. / say that the soul of
ireland is right, because, amid all the
disturbance and notwithstanding the
fact that, since the middle OF June
there has been no system OF police con-
troll throughout the rural districts,
there has been complete absence of
crime in the ordinary sense of the
word.
"Whatever outrages are committed
are political or, rather, military, The
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