Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-28
STRIFE IN ERIN
NOT YET ENDED,
AYERS MATS0N
Outlaws Will Continue
Despite New Turn
of Affairs.
By NORMAN n. MATSON
specisI Cable TO The Great Falls Tribune
DOWNRIGHT. 1922, By The Great Falls Tribune

Copyright, 1922. by The Great Fails Tribune
Dublin. Aug. 27.-Prediction that the
repercussion of the assassination OF
Michael Collins will lend the general
guerilla warfare is at least premature.
a compromise between the factions is
more difficult than it would have been
earlier in the year. The republicans
hold that Collins was not murdered.
They point out that he fell in battle,
fighting the republican forces. More
over, the public there is no longer
shocked by killings, which are accepted
as a part of the routine of the day.
Even admitting the remote POSSIBLE
ity that republican leaders and officials
of the Free State should arrange a
compromise Of their difficulties, the
land hungry tenants and the simon pure
gunner will continue their brigande
with a new relentlessness and with
''fewer fifth commandments bullets"
TO use an expression that is popular on
both sides.
The day of personalized politics in
Ireland is gone Armed groups are
organized in all counties, while every
fair sized village has its separate gang
an dts dominant IL crew. There is
no longer in Ireland respect for law
and order, and the treaty split has
shaken the confidence of the leaders
on both sides. Towns have become
playthings of the fighters. One town
in Kerry was taken and retaken four
times alternately by free staters and
republicans without a single casualty.
In Cork the police arrested a quartet
leaving a bank. They had 100000, all
that was left of the banks funds. hav-
ing stolen a similar amount on a for
mer visit. They pleaded that their pals
would accuse them of stealing from
them II they returned without the loot.
Moreover, they advised the inspector
of police that it would be better for
him if he refrained from interference.
Past experience caused the inspector
10 release them and he went to sleep
while the quartet "broke JAIL and then,
after warning the police away from the
bank, went there and retrieved their
original loot.
Ludicrous incidents of this character
have been too numerous almost to
mention. Repeated peace efforts, of
course, are expected. The II labor
ties in the dali will try again but their
influence is not great, the transport
and labor parties not having affiliated
either with the free state or the re-
publican cause.
The church is very influential so
far as the republican leaders are con
cerned, but against the great mass of
the rank and file 1t has not been so
successful and Cardinal Logue has been
compelled to threaten to resort to a
policy of accommodation if present
conditions continue. Threats are being
made that all building will be stopped
by the declaration of a strike. If this
takes place the whole labor party must
become involved and the creation of a
red army operating for its own ends
rather than for De Valera may well
be the outcome:
Larry O'Nel, who has been lord
mayor of Dublin for five years, is most
often mentioned for the Free State
leadership. He is al artist at compro.-
mise and has more friends on both
sides that any other man in Ireland.
He is well known in America, which
he visited with an Irish delegation some
time ago. going to Sing Sing prison to
see Jim Larkin. whom he knew in the
1913 Dublin strike.