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Show PREMIER'S SCHEME DOES NOT SATISFY, CO H ALAN ASSERTS By Universal Service. KICW YORK, Dec. 23. Premier Lloyd George's plan of two parliaments for Ireland Ire-land will not solve the Irish question, and is merely an attempt to iefog the issue, according to Supreme Court Justice Daniel P. Cohalan. "The people of Irelana," said Justice Colahan, "want possession of their own country, to rule it for themselves and in their own way, with absolute political and religious equality for all. "Lloyd George, speaking for the ruling class which he represents, said that the secession ( of Ireland from the empire would be' opposed with the same vigor and determination with which tho north opposed secession of the southern states. There is absolutely no analogy between the cases. The southern states were by choice and from the beginning an Integral In-tegral part of the United States. The people of Ireland never voluntarily en- , tercd the British empire. But this is only one of the mental twists of Lloyd George. He is an adept, like his long list of British statesmen predecessors, in giving a name to a thing which it does not in any way deserve. This is only another attempt to becloud the issue and turn t lie public opinion of the world into a channel that will be favorable to them. I am satisfied that it will fail." Justice John "W. Goff termed the Lloyd George plan a "mockery anil' a delusion," and merely a subterfuge of an "opportunist "oppor-tunist politician." "The twin parliaments," Justice Goff added, "would have all parliamentary powers except those reserved for the imperial parliament. The powers so reserved, re-served, however, constitute every essential essen-tial of political life. A nation and Ireland Ire-land is a nation that is deprived of all control over taxes, incomes, expenditures, customs, excise, postal service, police and judiciary, lias not the essential of national life." |