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Show SECTION' SATURDAY MAY 8 THREE 19-- SALT 0 Should Help Irish' Modem- LAKE - -- , CITY UTAH TWELVE PAGES Not Outla vv Them Who Are Not Friendt Are Enemiet Large Bodf bf Middle Opinion , Ready for Compromite, Driven Into Sinn Ftin Military Regime at DublinCattle Has Ettranged Population by Attorning That All an Army Man;Batet Rule of Force on Fallacy That Public Opinion Can Be Compelled --Skillful Handling of By Lack of Btitiih Recognition Bayonet Rule FStile Lord French, Exdutively Contervative Opinion in South and Wftt Would Form Center Party Which Would Probably Accept Latett Government Meature At Start Toward Genuine Self-Rul- (Special Correspondence.) , Outside obsenr-e- ri hve alwajr complained of the difficulty of ascertaining the true state ' of affair, in Ireland. Talk to an irishman and he will, draw you a picture which he will back up by unchallengable facta which and appear to you entirely convincing. Tho if he belong to different' political meet next you t an entirely different state of af- -' will portray party also supporting hi argument by fact which ' fair, though entirely conflicting are nevertheless equally To find out the truth about Ireland 1 rather Srue. ' like examining the varlousjprocesaes of a color print. The subject is the same in .every" casei but itU r tinged with deferent hues, -- Now. a. bright orange, now an emerald green xuffusr the picture: In one ' In the stage everything seems "eouloui next the shadow are intensified and the effect ia I that of unrelieved gloom. Only the eye of the ex- amid this chaos pt color the true can detect pert : tint of the completed picture. So it is in Ireland, indeed he surrender him-- l i The casual visitor (unless self to the guidance of one political party, when his task is simplified, but hi conclusions biased) becomes overwhelmed by the complexity and con--i tradictory nature of the problem before him, and is forced to make a mpre or less accurate. surmise at the true condition of the country. One can at least claim that Irish birth and descent, coupled with the detachment from political prejudice gained during four years of military service, enable discussion of the question with a certain degree of knowledge and understanding. There are two main points of view that must be dealt with before we as a . -can approach the subject whole. The first is that of the government .This was recently expressed by Chief Secretary Macpheraon in a speech in the House of Commons. In it be drew a truly tragic picture of the country over whose destinies he presides. Ireland,, in his words, was seething with sedition; Sinn Fein possessed an army of 200,000 young men, equipped in readiness for war and at present employed in murderwere v coning policemen. - Lonely farm-housstantly being btqken into by masked men, who demanded the surrender of any arms in the place at the point of a ' revolver and showed no hesitation in shooting if any resistance was offered. Even poll ice stations were not immune from attacks of this nature, several having been assaulted by gangs of 'armed desperadoes, who in some cases succeeded in forcing an entrance by means of high explosives. Actually in the crowded streets of Duhlin policemen and others have fallen victims to the asaamtin and no one has dared to arrest the murderer.' Only the exceptional measures adopted by the government and the resolute use of military force have prevented J the country from falling into chaos. v Such is the contention of Mr. Mscpherson speakHis facts ing mainly from official information. "are correct, though he may have, exaggerated the number of Sinn F ein volunteers and their readi- -t nees to commit murder. In this connection I recall the answer of a workman of mine, when he was asked what he would do if he were ordered to kill me. He replied "Share Id have to shoot at him, if they told to, hut rd miss him. ; On the whole, however, Mr. Mscpherson can produce evidence to support his statements. Sedition (s term to which he gives a very wide interpretation) is widespread: the police receive but little assistance from the people, and in many districts they carry their lives in their hands. 29. ,UBLIN, April , -d-e-rose, 1 , es i sealed there (though recently these have ceased), are disapproved of, though seldom openly denounced. Want of moral courage is a characteristic Irish fading. Tartly it Is caused by loneliness, for iu a country of isolated farmsteads, the outspoken man quickly becomes unpopular and tunes has good cauee to regret his lack of popularity, due to the nations) Instinct whii It is also in of the in th land struggle of solidarity born denounce dare while few None Iho less, Eighl.es. nsiny are disquieted, for in some parts of th country already anarchy teem to prevail, and thoughtd and sxrit-ab- ie ful men realute that among a is lawlessness of people like the IrUh, the spirit more easily aroused than quelled. If Sinn Fein got their desued republic tomorrow they would not finif the island an easy one to govern. It is therefore cits-ted without distinction of party-tha- t took wkb afprehensioo on ,th present state of affair and would be glad to e it brought to an ' end.' Raits l British Baldirra Making Tknmik Emlulln M. ta 4 P. M. Evaa Gnu Dahlla'e Li(nt BsM. Lullif Fim liS ' 1 NEED A PARTY. MODERATE OF -Btatlea la Ireland. retire Was Daw Ta, Bat SMkUf Wh Fwnnd.nmi,5 ' A wist government would tak care to avail itself of this mental attitude in order to build up try, in which law has become arbitrary and militar- moderate or "center" have In the first three months of 1920 twenty-fiv- e party prepared to work a ised, in which the state is unable to protect its own been murdered and over eighty more attacked, and settlement, of Irelands age-lonquarrel when one servants, a country where a civic dignitary ,cn be had been arrived It would be an adventurous assurance company that Lord but unfortunately at; t, murdered by a gang of masked assassins at would accept the life of a constable in the Royal French and Chief Secretary Macpherson have not and where a government official can be Irish Constabulary. The insecurity of the police been well nd vised in this matter. Th former is a out of a tramcar in broad daylight and done taken stations to them abandon and has compelled many soldier rather than n politician; th latter ha no to death in a frequented high road, could only .merit .abdicate many of their normal functions, and as a real knowledge of Irish affair, and both ar guided one description. Such a country could lay no claim in consequence the fabric of society is threatened with their policy by a small circle of official who and to Ireland's old title of "a land of Saints take a narrow view of great issue. As a consecollapse. Seeing the matter in a narrow light, it is Scholars: it could only be described as a hell oh no wonder that the chief secretary ia alarmed, but be quence, the policy adopted is on that has played diearth. does not see the whole truth. rectly into the hands of. Sinn Fein, for Jby it ig- Helliah deed hav certainly been perpetrated noranee of psychology and contempt for public opin-i- n THE SINN FEIN VERSION. Ireland, and violence on one side ha produced on to alienate public opinion instead ha gone Sinn Fein gives us the reverse of the medal. violence on the other; but fortunately there are 0f conciliating it. In the eye of the government - According to the leading advocates of their po-,, many diatrirta in th island where other condition every man who professes Sinn Fein opinions is a eies, Ireland would be peaceable end orderly and Unionist, commercial Ulster is peaceful tential assassin ;Slnn Fein itself is an illegal organi-an- d far freer from ordinary crime than England were prosperous, and all over the farming districts action, while the mere possession of any republican it not for the actions of an alien and oppressive govin th west and south there are broad area where propaganda which, can be (bribed as a aeditiou ernment. When asked in whit way the government order still reign comparatively inviolate. The in- document is a crims punishable with deportation is oppressive, the Sinn Feiner replies that it Is using habitant of these district are for the most part or. imprisonment. Th Irish government have not the exceptional powers conferred on it during the thriving, for agricultural price are high, and with yet learned that it is futile to try to proscribe opin-- . war to crush the people. It has arrested over 500 an assured income, there come n desire for security. ion, and that by so doing they merely weaken their - Irishmen on suspicion of their being concerned - hi Accordingly, though many police barrack have been own power to deal with those serious aqd dastardly wdoawd and the soldier do- - not go far from their crimes which it ia their duty as well as their desire illegal acts,' and is keeping them in prison without trial. Almost every night soldiers ia "steel helmets' ' quarters hi th towns, the natural instincts of the to suppress. - Such proscription becomes almost ludisupported by armored automobiles' and sometimes crous st a time when they are pressing through parpeople preserve peace. The farmers are Sinn Fei' by "tanks descend on the house of some prom in-ner, at least In name, but their Sinn Fein ia based liament a bill for the future government of Ireent Sinn Feiner and ransack it in' a search for abless on a passion for Republicanism in the land. Though by.no means perfect, this measure arms and "seditious documents." ' Sometimes a ' few stract, than on a desire to settle their own af- holds- - forth' some hope .of hotter thing and is caprevolvers or a case of ammunition are found, but as fairs untrsmmeled by English interference. They able of amendment and improvement, yet in Irea rule these investigations, disturbing and alarming learned that British statesmen yield only to land one party is outlawed and nnable to discuss have Com. JTevH Vtmufr General Sir it as they are to all the inhabitants without distine-to- n f pressure and are prone to compromise, and there- - at all, while Sinn Feins opponents are naturally mlesteeer ef to UrHtoate PwHee the Irish of age or sex, are singularly futile except in fore they ask for a republic in the hope of getting indisposed to take advantage Appelate LnSn. ( jof the compulsory si-- a . i Ceauii. constitution similar to that of Canada or A us- - lence of their opponents. creating exasperation. , When it is pointed out that Sinn Fein having tralia.. It seems, therefore, to be once more Irelands declared Ireland at war with England, can hardly is true of all the older , unhappy destiny to lose an this Broadly speaking, slumber his from was who of dragged .Cork, opportunity of peace. At mayor complain if a government, which has seen its ser the is a cer- - a Urn when a British government are there men, including in though the dead almost priests, shot and in men disguise endeavoring rants shot down in broad daylight and a murderous by tain ferment among the youths Many farmers to carry out a scheme which may compresence of his wife sad little children. The crime, on made chief attack the of the executive takes measons who would normally have emigrated have, owing pose the secular quarrel between the two universally deplored in Ireland, may have been the Islands, sures of precaution, the Irish Republican urges gravoutcome of some dark undercurrent in secret so- to the war, remained at home; and since they have the blunders of officials and the follies of extremer charges. The strain which soldiers and police- or it mayjiave been the vengeance little occupation beyond a days casual labor on the ists are creating a situation so embittered that at men have been subjected to ip Ireland during the ciety politics, soil for the Sinn Feint times a settlement seems hopeless. roads, they are favorable of overstrained policemen who have seen their comNevertheless, it past year has un questionably told on their nerves rades killed; but Sinn Fein' naturally accuses the agitation to work on. Their leaders are school is not too late; th opinion of moderate men, posand there have been cases in which civilians who, and shop assistants, and they are almost sessing a substantial stake in th country, has not latter, and its charge finds ready credence in the teachers .owing to deafness or to other causes have either without exception' very young. A man of fifty is a yet been hopelessly alienated, and a change of polis situation an Thus already, dangerous country. failed to respond to a sentrys challenge and have made more patriarch in the Sinn Fein movement and many icy might work wonders. But unless the govern- -, , critical, and fresh and explosive fuel been shot dead. These incidents are admitted to' of their elected representatives are under thirty. .merit speedily address themselves to the conciliation is added 'to a fiercely burning fire, v : have been accidental, but Sinn Fein makes . the most I Of this mass of unorganized conservative opinion. . pea-- . " Naturally, therefore, the conservative-minde-d 1 NEITHER TALE WHOLLY TRUE. of them, and points out that if England would withsant and conservative more the ' still parish proprietor, they will find It swept over to SinnFein and their I . : draw her army and police force from Ireland. they Such are the pictures drawn by the two parpriest stand aside from a movement which in their scheme.will meet with disastrous failure, could not happen. Of late, however, feeling has ties,' and each picture is, within limits, a truthful opinion is controlled by rash boys. The occasional j BRYAN COOPER, become more embittered, as is instanced by the one, but it is not the. whole truth. If it were, then ebullitions of youth, usually taking the form of (Copyright, 1920, by the Edward Marshall Syndicate, tragic murder of Alderman Thomas MacCurtain, lord - indeed the outlook would be a black one for a coun-- - raids on isolated houses for arms believed to be' Con- . . . lac.) )rt high-spirite- sober-minde- ZtA. - - teil-'Ing-- er ... i. -- ns , .. g mid-niJi- fr 1 f -- 1hNr. . far-sight- i t Egyptian Hail in Ben Street- - I saw the at 5 a.m. About 280 couples were atill Siamese Twins there 'Just after they dancing. In a few hours the place was Icame from Slam, and also Tom Thumb a heap of smouldering ruins. 1 did a from America. splendid picture 'of the burning dulid-inIn the 0 s.,1 made some portraits with it leaping flame and crimlehind the scenes of the old Lyceum son sky. A young chap dressed tike a riots .of 18SS. pictures graphically his theatre in the Strand for a number of Turk gave tne three gold sovereigns for experiences during the Crimean war, some of them dukea and it on th epot.- and tells of meeting Abraham Lincoln gentlemen lord used to meet there every who Mx fingers are too etiff new to do In Washington in the midst of the evening to have beefsteak much. Htlll, these aint so bad for an American Civil, War. He can entertain Saturday dinners. called themselves the old fellow, are they? And he pointed They one for hours with interesting remtni-scencto a row-o- f Society of Beefsteak. portrait atudiea, including of the days when Oxford Sublime shall never forget the night onea of President Wilson and Premier street was a country lane and grass in VI " 1858 when the old Covent Lloyd George,' ' ' grew in the Strand! MYKON PARROT. Garden' I was burned. Though he has never been at school, watching theatre th lords (Copyright by the Rdward Marshall reveling the ancient artist is well spoken, fluent, and ladies when the alarm was given i Syndicate Inc.) and can discuss almost any subject with surprising Intelligence He travelthe United States on ed throughout horseback from 1884 t 1871, moving as far west from New York as El Faso. He painted Grant In a Washington and the fainting still .hangs there. My extensive travels and acquaintance with so many great mem" he in the course of my talk with and Farm Scheme Prove Wholly Inadequate to Care Forgery have taught me better than him, school books over could have done. I Men Who Demand Vigorous, Out door Lives. For knew'Dickens. Thackeray, llood, Heel, Jerrold, Lincoln, Grant, and many other men who are famous ia history. (Special Correspondence.) perience in leadership, than eh can I drew pictures of a large number of ONDON, April 28. Great Brit- give a chance In life to. A year ago, worn with hardship, they asked .foi ' them. . . ain pledged her word to do no more thn a roof aver their head I saw 5Ir. Dickens come through of everything possible for those frlenda and a fire to alt by. Now Leicester gqusre dozens of Mmel on his her young soldier who sur- they have. rested, and arf sick and way to Chapman and Halls in Ilcca- the Great War, She ha dissatisfied because no eld country dtlly. He was very much interested In vived nu' work I made a portrait of him not forgotten her prothlae."but many can give them scope for the power once In Peelee coffee hob sc of those boys, young In ra ut old that were forged and tempered In the street. I also drew .pictures of Mr in wisdom andrather sad with exper- fires of war. Eng. and haantr-foree- t o land te bring Thackeray and Douglas Jerfold . in ience. want something that Eutope to fell, no unsettled cultivation, no wildnesses where a front of th office of 1unch In Crane cannot glva them. aetll and wait for Court. Mark Lemon, the editor, wae a Fhe ean satisfy all whore cqtifsnt young man toway overtake him. Ha must fine man, too.-- I liked him. with a tame life In shop or office. he civilization foe oversea look thla, and he I not My memories of old London would demands thousands more than ah can fill a hundred newspapers. When I was get of men whose muscle and stneea sure that he will be welcome. a boy I used to pick grape in Iicca-dlL- jr are capable of the strain of mining be welcome Will he, where th tne street police sta- and dockyard work, and ala wHl fn Canada or America? He cannot now stands tion The vineyard belong- meet wlUi courage th risk and rough- bring much money with him. for the ed to the Duke, of Westminister. J be- ness of tbeee calltrvr. But being a class from which most of these you rg lieve. An old gardener In a brightly col- small, d and officers come la suddenly poor, as in ored uniform ueed t e chare ue away. country, eh has more young men America few working men are poor.1 "We peed go on Saturday to the of education, alertness, skill and ex He may perhtps be an erred at a a Pavement Artists Reminiscences (Special Correspondence.) to ONDON, April 28. Passers-b- y whom the familiar, picturesque t , figure of OleWlU Conway, for many years a favement artist in lie I tester Square, has become a landmark, wondered last week at his absence. Ho one seemed to know what bad become of him. whose faint, Id t tie "Tinki-Tink- .,' piping tunes, coming mysteriously from- some invisible Instrument hidden in the folds . of an Immense brown doth, have entertained almost everybody whose business has involved a walk through Coventry street, evenTJnkle-Tin- k could offer no explanation of hi old friend unwonted absence. Old bearded "Omar, who between snoozes in the Museum library and adjournments to the Covent Garden pub.," recites Virgil and the Rubaiyat at alxpense the recital, grew philosophical on the subject of his "fellow- . artist's" disappearance, and began Who would listen how "one tfy one the lowliest and the best" vanish, ic the mazes of the mighty city. - "Little Nell, a West End floweri girl for forty jears. wrapped in brown-papilk a store parcel on wintry days "Little Nell it was who finally told where "Ole WJU" could be found. die had. merely taken a holiday she said, to eeienrate fitly and properly. th arrival into the world of Will Con-way the fifth, hi of whose birth in New York be had just received intelligence, "Ole Will," now nearly SB, poseeeses a remarkably vivid memory, rich inth legend and tradition, of old London. The most uninteresting and pro-sal- e corners of the metropolis of today J are to him vaults of entombed anec-- , dote snd treasure bouee of old story He show scars received in th bread e. es nt Problem of Soldier Land . Is Baffling For Britain -- Ex-Ar- -- L in-,t- thickly-populate- remittance man minus his remittance. He has, more likely than not,-- scar of old wound which will remind him to hla dying day that Ije ia not a sound man. - He has been gageed maybe, and should live In a climate drier and aun-nithart that of northern Britain. - (Schools of Forestry. . Hi own., country has done what it can to train him, but too often these training schemes seem a forlorn hope. Take th new 'British government schools of forestry, set up by (he interim foreetry authority, or tha small farms under the Scheme for land setThe schools of forestry ar tlement. not set up because there are hefty y forests In England, but because she 4s and almost bare oDthem. In 1818 more tree were felled thin would have been cut in England in 40 normal years. These must be replaced; If they are not, another war would find the counrry defenceless without timber for either civilian or army use. The British government has two" forestry school and hopes to for disabled have nine for fit men. The education will b free, the student promise to do ordinary day labor and will receive small pay. The course lasts oro develops toth year and ic the planmen can be trainutmost, perhaps 2(8 24 months. The course ed every le excellent, but the young pupils with be old before th forests ar much more than nursery 'plantations of little trees. Th student has nothing before him ilk th life of a lumber man in Canada or the Btatca. H on th will be growing Ietnbrokeshlr moorlands or iarchea in th highlands and he will be a hi life, a kind of nurspoor man-al- l ery gardener. land settlement scheme Take the for officer. Oveis4.e officer and men hav applied for holdings and of them be v received barely 8,7 land. I .flvw eeuntled not soldier has obtained any land at all. er suit-mari- ne pro--vM- ed (Contlaaed on Fa Two) (Special- - Correspondence.) personal intimacy, and when Lady Aa-t- or No recent wa April fighting for her husband In Upper Tendom former "seat" at Plymouth, Lady CynLONDON, thia went down- - there' and took an , social and poltU-, circle so greatly a that energetic part In the campaign. Un- 2. announced between Lady Curzon and Oswald Moalay, the latter of whom has been known, since hie election to parliament In 1818 as the M. P. for Youth. Lady Cynthia Curzon, renowned as one of the most beautiful girls In London society, is the younger of the two attractive daughters of EarlCur-ao- n of , Kedleatort, secretary of state for foreign affairs, former viceroy of India, and one of th most notable of British statesmen. Lady Cynthia is, in the matter Of parentage, half American, her mother, the first wife of Earl Curzon, harln 'previously been' Mias Letter, of Chicago. Her stepmother, the present Countess Cur- now Ilk predeceor,-a4the her fair ton, commanding figure In society. Is also an American. eh is a daughter of the late J. Monroe Hinds, of Alabama, and, when fnarrted 'tb Ewl Curxon 111 1817, waa the widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. Very handsome an acknowledged leader of fash-lr- k ltd she has made herself one of th most not his of British hostesses. Lord Curzon dtas no son, and Lady Cynthia Curzon' elder ateter. Lady Mary Curzon, Is heiress presumptive to her father' peerage. Che Is 22. and Cynthia two year younger. The newly engaged young bewuty would not be her father's daughter if she were not keenly Interested In politic, and nothing tut dancing attracts her equally. ghe can make a good speech and is an adept at canvawlng," In othdr s words st wheedling voters Th and the X store sr on term ef recently Cynthia. . - Cur-ron- doubtedly her effort helped to elect the American peeress who la Britain first woman M. I - La dy Cynthia attended the great , fancy dree ball given o.v u. - - n-- l of Albany at Devonshire Hoi and stood out by reason of her uncommon attractiveness even in that assemblage of beautiful women and handsome men. She and her American stepmother, Countess Curzon, danced in the "English quadrille, Lady Cynthia having as hep Sir Frank Newnes, th head partner' of th famous publishing firm. She wore a costume of peacock blui taffeta, U petticoat being of cream color and trimmed with lace. Countess Curzon wore a very lovely pink brocade gown. drslgn In stiver and of floral pom padour character. Her partner was th Earl of Athlon, who was in th uniform ef a Royal Horae Guards officer of-- 768. 'Lady Cynthia frankly confesses to It was an inbeing "dancing mad. formal "bop friends for" trhtrh ah and her ainjer Impulsively war which got arranged during tha Lord Cursoar into all th Eociahat of as sort modern equivaspeeches lent of Nero fiddling while Rom burned. of Lady Cynthia, Th huahand-to-- b Oswald Mosley, 4. P- - Is only four years her senior and until recently was th "baby of th heu of comn ef Bir H is th oldest mons. Oswald Mosley ef Roll-Whall, who Is renowned, among other thing, for hi cion resemble nee. 1 on-lea- ve on (Continued Pf Two) |