The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-09-16
FREE STATE DESERVES
AMERICAN SYMPATHY
Bishop Turner Warns Against Help
ing DeValera and His Clan
New York Tribune)

American people with sympathetic
leanings toward the followers of De
Valera and the Irish republic were
warned 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 Queens
town on the White Star liner Adriatic
he not alone repudiated De Valera,
with whom he had been on friendly
terms while in the United States, but
issued a 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 of misguided, erratic
persons, whose bent had diverged
along the lines of banditry; that their
endeavors were hopeless, and that any
sane person who had been in Ireland
within the last three months could noc
but see the overwhelming strength of
the adherents of the Irish Free State
The bishop explained on his arrival
that he was speaking freely and i'm
partially, guided solely by the facts as
he saw them in Ireland He paid a
| high tribute to Britain and her sin
cerity in dealing with the Irish peo-
pie. He said that the free staters had
every confidence in the steadfastness
and honesty of England in dealing
with the Irish question and that SO
per cent of the Irish 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 their inter,
nal vicissitudes than are the Ameri.
can people. Britain, he said, knows
the situation thoroughly and is kindly
and considerate with the adherents ot
the free state and will stand by then
until there is perfect harmony ant
satisfactory adjustment of nationa
affairs in Ireland
> While discussing the situation las
night on the Adriatic as she steamed
up the bay from quarantine, Bishop
Turner said:
81 have been in Ireland for nearl!
three months. l have been maroonet
III the house of my sister in Killmal
lock, my birthplace, and have minis
: tered to those who have fallen int
the misguided republican cause"
: "The conviction which I bring wit
me from Ireland is that, in spite Of al
that has happened during my sta.
there, the soul of Ireland is still righ
0 and if we are only patient a littl
while longer we shall see realized a.
our hopes for a free, peaceful an
e prosperous Ireland. 1 say that tn
e soul of Ireland is right, because, ami
s all the disturbance and notwithstand
ing the fact that, since the middle G
June there has been no system c
n police control throughout the rurs
s districts, there has been complet
;. absence of crime in the ordinary sens
of the word.
"Whatever outrages are committe
a are political; or, rather, military. tt
W vast civic body is orderly, sober an
1t respectful of property rights.