Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
GERMANS WRECK TROOP TRAIN
ireland UndSf.
P0friCk',s S Dow
1928
By MILTON BRONNER

t1ee StdCe Is rapidly coming out OF
the storms. There may be few
more squalls-dying squall-but un-
der the leadership of President Cos
grave and his brave band of cabiEet
ministers, l am very hopeful that
few more months will see fair wealth
er and smooth seas"
It was His ExcelIency, Timothy
Healey, first governor general of the
Irish Free State, who was talking.
And it was the first time he had
talked for publication since he had
been sworn in.
Fact is, it is probably the first time
any governor general of self-gov-
erning natoin in the British empire
had thus spoken.
But then Tim" Healey, great
lawyer, famous orator, noted wit, for
long years fighter for Ireland in
the British Parliament, has been
breaking rules all his life
We were seated in the handsome
library study in the viceregal lodge
that not SO long ago had been occu-
pied by British viceroys. British red
was the predomin9ting color in all
the furnishings. They are predicting
that in the not dim future Tim"
viii have Irish green all over the
place.
Cause of Rebellion.
THE pity of what is happening
and what has happened since a
small number Of men put themselves
up as superior TO the the mandate of
their fellow citizens" continued
Healey, lis the moral hurt that has
been done to the name of Ireland
and the Irish people.
Everywhere Irishmen are asham-
ed Of what is happening in Ireland.
They are ashamed Of what people
are saying about US.
This hurt is even greater than
the material and personal loss caused
to our people by the damage to prop
erty and the murder of our citizens.
"a few persons leading on
thoughtless boys have virtually said
to the mass Of the Irish people:
-" You say you want peace in Ire
land and that the treaty with Eng
land establishing the Irish Free State
is the way to peace with liberty and
self-rule. Well we will not LEI you
have peace!
But that can't go on for long.
You can t7set yourself up against the
clergy, the press and practically the
bulk of the people.
''To murder fine old men, to burn
down houses, to destroy barn doesn't
convert the Irish people. 1t simply
stiffens them in their determination
to see this thing through and sup
port orderly government.
81 expect to see great things in
Ireland. We have a good climate, a
rich soil and an industrious people.
Give us peace and you will find Ire
land a rich and happy nation.
What little Denmark can do, VIC
can more than duplicate because we
will have the thing the world wants
eggs, bacon, butter cheese, flax.
Cause for Satisfaction.
Gas an old fighter for Ireland, it
does my heart good when / see them
changing the guard here at the VIC
ergal lodge, not because Tim Healey
is the occupant of it, but because
of what it all means-soldiers Of
the Irish Free State carrying the flag
of that state, changing the guard of
this lodge occupied by an untitled
Irishman sprung from the plain peo-
pie.
1--WE have a splendid, honorable
peace with England. The Irish peo-
pie are masters in their own house
and Irish soldiers in Irish green are
ON guard
4 ah convinced that most Ameri-
cans, like most Irishmen and most
Britons, are delighted that at last the
old quarrel has been honorablY set
tied and that Ireland on ST. Patrick's
Day, 1928, can look forward to bright
hopes instead of backward to tragic
memories