The New York herald., 1922-07-16
Shaw Desmond Describes
Causes and Effects of
Breach in Sim Fein
BY SHAW DESMOND.

| only the day before yesterday he was
suffering and even dying for Ireland.
As Mr.. Francis Gallagher, the brilliant
young director of the "Poblacht nah
Eireann' .("Republic of Erin"). said
TO me the other day at one of those per-
fectly indescribable gatherings, those
'feasts of reason and flows of soul" of
the younger Republicans: Men who
are treatyites simply never were Irish
men and never could be Irishmen,
These things are not matters of argu-
ment-they are matters of intuition"
But do not imagine that Ireland is
nasty in her differences. "A Republican
may .'plug" a brother treatyite, but If
he does so he does it like, gentleman
and not like a footpad, Nor does he
assassinate, as the world seems to
imagine. Both life and death, espe.
cially death, in Ireland is conducted
"decently and in order There has
been some desperate fighting around
Kilkenny and elsewhere between the
troops of the I. r. A., who give their
allegiance to Griffith. and the "execu-
tive troops. but nearly all the casual
ties have been casualties in the softer
and less dangerous places Of the hui
man anatomy divine. as the order was
given to ''firc at the legs" Irishmen,
even under the stress of the treaty. do
notforget they are brothers and gentle
men.
Even to their real enemies. the
Unionists, who learn nothing and for
get nothing. they are courtesy itself.
Elders Endure Lloyd George
Because He Can't Be Cured
There is in Dublin very haunt OF
senile decay and respectability (all
decay is respectable) known as the
Kildare Street Club, inhabited in nor
mai times by dear old gentlemen who
live somewhere back in the mid Vic
torian era. Their creed is simple. 1t
is to regard Pitt and Disraeli as the
models of humanity for all time, Sir
Edward (now Lord) Carson as little
lower than the angels, Mr.. Lloyd
George as clever upstart who has to
be endured because he can't be cured
and Mr.. canon de Valera as the devil.
1t is beautiful and touching faith.
To these dear old gentlemen, en-
sconced within their red morocco,
there came recently some youths "of
the baser Sort" as one Of the club
members put it, who told them to haui
down the Union Jack, clear out, and
not come back Within twenty min
utes gigantic Republican tricolor
Haunted itself from the Flagstaff Of the
club; the windows were filed with
sandbags with nice little businesslike
holes here and there for the young
gentlemen within to view the weather
without; and the front door banged,
bolted and barred. -,
There were also 1900 bottles of wine
in the club, upon which the club stew
ard told friend of mine he felt he
had taken his last look.Ss But then, ne
being Scotch. is confirmed pesstn,ist,
while ]. like all Irishlnen, am hope
less optimist, and as not even the ir-T
regular branch of the Irish Republican
army loots. I believe he will. see his
bottles again.
Somebody a few days later took a
fancy to the Masonic lodge. 4 Within a
few minutes that highly respectable
temple also had been sandbagged and.
the front door bolted. Over the way
two giant policemen look on uncon-
cerned. The policeman in Ireland is
to-day only used as an ornament for
the landscape. 1t is his business and
indeed highly desirable for himself and
everybody else that he just stand
around and look pleasant And he
does it. A* r
That is how we do things In ireland
to-day. Nobody is ever surprised al
anything.
On The steps Of the provisional Gov
ernment there were two young gentle
men yesterday !uxuriously puffing at
their cigarettes. They themselves were
living human arsenals with their busi-
nesslike revolvers and Mausers, only
they we're tired. and so one OF them
hung in posture not provided for by
the articles Of war -overAthe balustrade
at the side and the other looked 4up
into heaven. Before the door stood a
British Government armored car with
natty little Lewis gun craning itself
arrogantly out through slot II, the