The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-15
Frederick Haskin's Letter
ssp-ea ceare~ooanes Azsua1
Will Ireland Remain Peacefully
t9peezal CcFrewon<Anee Of

one fight under vay on tbo
another to their west. They so.' ana
ed County Donegal in the v ~egu'f-
war and captured Ccunfv Ir1.saIefn
/ the east Then came the - sleI 20
piers and map-makers ana I sSsi d.
I the northern counties as f-,eied
There have been battles over e. -
portions Of Ulster since an I -Suls
man first fashioned q shilIsisb s'i L.-
found no better target than s n
head of an enemy. 'le
Most of Cavan, which e.
| southernmost OF the cnuntial 1ne
credited to Ulster BY histori.aa1 az
never belonged to that saei; ,S, ld'Qs'
J truth, a map showing the resi IA
lltical Ulster would be a collectio-
of shreds and patches, Of sba55l
and percentages. It would he TO- -Ia
solid as far south as North Ion 1.' y
derry and North Armagh are CO..
cerned, but after that it woTIS ~
all to pieces. Even LoDdon5e-ssUo
City, the industrial prosnprity-
which has induced a flow Of chen
labor from County Donegal an :.
west, now has a Nationalistir M
! jority. Tyrone and Fermanagb boi,
have slight Nationalistic maiorifiss
The figures by religion show 119 -5s
Catholics and 90,746 Protestants y
To mark off certain counties and
to label one part as Ulster and ne
other part as Southern ireland az
was done by the act of parIiama1t
of 1920, has been found to he +.
hopelessly bad ARRANGEMENT T.
was certain to lead to trouble Sucb
illumination includes thousand
of red-hot Nationalist and excludes
thousands of equally red-hot IN
ionists.
Bitter Feeling Still Exists.
If it be true that Lloyd George
told the Irish delegation to IN
ahead and include in the Free STATE
some of the sections Sir James
Craig says Michael Collins intends
to have as parts of the Free State
then Ulster probably means to fight
before these counties are taken
from it.
A boundary commission might
settle the question in a general way
within a few weeks. Certainly It
could with respect to Armagh, Mon
Afghan, Fermanagh and Donegal
Every mans religion and politics
are known in Ulster from the era
die to his grave A partition line
that would hold half of Armagh out
of Ulster and bring in one-third Of
Monaghan; that would leave one
half of Fermanagh and bring in
sections of Donegal. would result
in fair partition to most Of the
residents of those four counties.
So far as Tyrone is concerned
any land division appears to Be
hopeless. There are 10000 CathO-
lies and 10000 Professionals in this
county. Yet they are so crisS-
crossed and intermiugled that any
attempt to say which part Of II BE-
Ionged to Ulster and which to the
Irish Free State would tax the Wis
dom of q new Solomon. TyroRs {
lies in the heart of Ulster. ANY d. /
vision Of it undoubtedly would re-
suit in endless clashes.
How Plan Would Work.
The determinations reCounted here
would put approximately 100000
in the Free State and
the same number of Free Staters in
and it appears that some
thing of this nature must be done
if the Irish problem is settled with
out resort to arms.
Sir James Craig says howe7e |
that the Ulster counties as stipa
lated in the act of parliament Of
1920 will be considered By his gov
eminent as belonging TO the north
arn section. He refuses to accept
the services of a boundary commits
sion. saying Ulster was not consult
ed by Lloyd George or the lrisl
delegation which solved the GIueI-
ances between southern Ireland ana
he British crown. He declares th8
act of Parliament was accepted By
Ulster and that the British pre-
nier declared in q letter to Eamoln
lie Valera last July that the settle
nent must allow for full recognl-
ion of the existing powers ana
of the parliament ana
of northern ireland
which can not be abrogated eX3ep-
" their own consent
The fact that British troops nave
eft the Free State leaves the ques-
ion to be decided by armed force
lnIess LLOYD Georges cIeverness
an find a way to circumvent resof1
O a civil war by Ulstermen and l1s
OF the new dominion.