Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-01-14

ada-a governor general TO be appoint
ed who is acceptable TO Ireland.
Ireland shall have complete control
Of all its governmental affairs. 1t will.
have It's own army, but the army must.
not be larger in proportion to Ireland's.
| population than the British army I'M
proportion to. its population. The
British forces In Ireland will be with
drawn Immediately upon ratification.
Of the tre.'ty.
Status of Ulster
Ulster will be included In the settle
ment, but it may vote itself out within.
a month after the British parliament
has ratified the treaty. In case 1t de-
cides against uniting with southern
Ireland its status will continue under
the act provided for In 1920. In such
a case a boundary commission viii be
constituted to determine final boun-
dairy between Ulster and the rest of
Ireland.
The Irish Free State agrees to as
sumo an equitable proportion Of the
British debt. 1t is to provide harbor
facilities for the British navy on terms
to be decided by the two countries in
convention. Religious freedom and
education will be safeguarded in both
the northern and the southern govern
| ments.
1t is provided that formal ratifica-
ton Of the treaty by Ireland shall be
made by body elected under the Brit
ish parliament's government of Ire
land act. This provision will be met
by the reconstruction of the Dali
Eireann as the first provisional par
lament of Ireland. The members Of
the Dali were elected under the Brit
ish home rule act.
Says America Favors Treaty.
Harry Boland, Mr.. De Yalera's Amer
lean envoy. provided a sensation when
he declared he was against the treaty
as a republican, although he knew
that most people in Ireland and nearly
all the people in America were in favor
of it. In reporting on the American
loan he declared that the state of I'LL
nols In 1919 raised 1897 900 in u
months at a cost of $4,000 and last
year IT raised S552,OOO in three weeks
Mt the same cost.
Ratification of the Irish-British
peace treaty practically brought to an
| end the fight for Irish freedom that
has been waged for more than $50
years. The British parliament has al
ready unanimously approved the
| treaty.
Friendship between the English and
| Irish people ceased at the time of the
Invasion of Ireland credited to Strong
bow, heir to the earldom Of Pembroke
and n liege of Henry II. This con-
quest occurred in the Twelfth cen
| fury.
Henry II dispatched a force of An
glo-Norman troops under Diarmid
MacMurragha to occupy Dublin. That
city and several other Irish towns
we're taken. After this victory, Strong
bow, one of the lieutenants under Mac
Murragha, married the leaders daugh-
ter. He assumed the throne of Lem
ster at his father-in-law's death In
III. Henry then went to Ireland and
established Dublin castle as the seat
of government. The castle has been
the headquarters for Great Britain in
Ireland ever since.
First Revolt In 1898.
The first revolution in Ireland was
In 1893. 1t was almost entirely di-
rected by Protestants, one of whom
was Lord Edward Fitzgerald, pic
turesque Irish leader.
Robert Emmett, Protestant, was
one of the best loved heroes of Ireland.
He organized the revolt of 1898.
Later Emmett was captured. convict
ed of treason, and was hanged on Sep
tember 20. 1903. In an eloquent
speech from the gallows he babe no
one to place an epitaph on his tomb
until Ireland was free
Other great men in Irish history in
clude Theobold Wolfe Tone, Henry
Grattan, Charles Stewart Parnell,
Daniel O'Connell, "the great liberator,"
and Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor
of Cork. who starved himself to death
for the Irish cause In British prison.
De Valera Elected in 1919.
cannon De Valera was elected pres
ident of the "Irlsh republic" by the
Irish national assembly in 1919. He
was in hiding then. hunted by British
troops, following his sensational es-
cape from Lincoln prison.
He was born in New York city. His
mother before her marriage TO a
Spaniard, was Kate Coll, native Of
County Limerick. Ireland. Shortly be-
fore the Irish rebellion of 1916, he was
teaching Gaelic at the Royal College
of Surgeons. Dublin. Then he became
a major in the Irish forces.
Michael Collins, who gained In power
during the last year, both at war and
at peace. is considered the logical sue
cessor 10 De Valera as leader, although
an older man may be chosen as the
first premier.
The Sim Fem organization which
concluded the peace agreement with
/ Cuoot pritofn was formed In 1905 for