Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
BY A. G. GARDINER
Britain'S Greatest Liberal Editor


CorTright 1922. BY The Great Falls Tribune.
Special Wireless to The Great Falls Tribune.
London, June 10.-The outlook il
Ireland is desperate. The coming weel
will be the most momentous in Irisl
history. Next Friday the first genera
election in the Irish free state is to BIZ
held. Upon it's result depends the fate
of the treaty with Great Britain. Eng
land awaits developments with pro.
found anxiety. Apart from the incon-
siderable body of the die hards," rep
resented by the Morning Post, English
opinion overwhelmingly is DESTROYS of
a peaceful issue. 1t accepted a treaty
as a belated deliverance from a strug-
gle of which it had grown ashamed and
will ratify it if possible with relief and
thanksgiving.
If the Irish people could give a free
verdict, undoubtedly the treaty would
be safe. They want peace the same as
the English and are satisfied hat the
treaty lays a foundation for peace. But
the terrible events of past years has
raised the spirit of anarchy in their
midst. The fear of this terrorism is
the reason why Collins made his pact
with DeValera for an agreed election.
Collins In Good Faith
That Collins acted in good faith is
unquestioned but the compact with De
Valera, who repudiated the treaty. de-
MES the Irish people the liberty freely
to declare their opinion on the treaty
and the proposed constitution. Discus
sions are proceeding in London between
the British government and represen-
tatives of the Irish provisional govern
ment on the subject of draft of the
constitution. If it keeps within the
treaty, will DeVaIera accept it? If
not, what follows the agreed election
between two balanced parties which
disagree or tn. vital issue?
The pact has partly collapsed. There
is prospect of contests in 20 put of the
u of the member constituencies into
which the free state is divided. hide
pendent candidates representing labor
and the farmers have been nominated
to oppose the Collins and DeValera
candidates. In Dublin the lord mayor
starts independently as a supporter of
the treaty. But grave concern prevails
as to possible developments between
now and Friday. The atmosphere is
charged with electricity and the fear of
violence is acute. If the independent
candidates poll a substantial majority.
the mischief of the pact is minimized
because for the most part they are
definitely pro-treaty Or, if they are
freely elected, the parliament should
be assured a balance on the side of
peace. But nothing can be forecast
and it is significant that while DeVa-
lera has a walk over in Glare, Collins
Is unopposed in county Cork.
Storm Brews In Ulster
Meanwhile the storm in Ulster is
brewing apace. Belfast is the constant
theater of battle between Protestants
and Catholics and the slaughter is Sc
rious. The provocation here undoubt-
eddy came from the Orangemen who
drove the Catholics out of the ship
yards. No effective measures have
been taken by the Ulster government
to protect the minority and there is a
that the policy pursued is de-
liberately directed to intensity mutual
recant its pacific policy and throw over
the treaty on the ground that it has
been ~dishonored and then return to the
old task of reconquering Ireland. No
other construction can be placed upon
provocative proceedings in Ulster
and the demand for British troops.
Carson's elevation to the judicial bench
Ulster men of a hero and a
leader but a new hero emerged in the
person of General Sir Henry
Wilson whom Lloyd George made chief
Of staff during the war. He is an
Orangeman of the extremist type and a
nilitarist who SCOTS at peace any
where. He is as dangerous as he is
able and his entry into the British
has given the "die hards'' a
and ruthless figurehead
lround whom every influence sworn to
the free state gathers.
Anarchy to Be Feared.
There would be no reason to fear
his if things were going well in the
rec state, but anarchy there plays
nto the hands of the Ulster conspir-
CT. It makes the English public lose