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Show I s O' n Music, The Drama Newo Foreign T "Society News Arid Literature 'iy&ib .SATURDAY OCTOHElf 2 1920 SALT THREE SECTION . LAKE TEN PAGES CITY UTAH Si SI If . Neither Side Will Give In: Which Will Win? I Observations of Staff Correspondent in Rebellious Districts of Ireland, and Experiences With the Sinn Feiners in Collecting War Funds He is Watched by Policemen, Who Are Watched by Detectives, Who Are Watched by Secret Service Men, Who Are Themselves Watched in Their Every Move Destructive Side of Sinn Fein is of Three-Fol- d Character, But There is Also Prisons Constructive Side, illustrated in Courts and Already Established Irish Calleen as "Patriot? Can Laugh, Can Cry, Can Love'and Can Starve or Kill Wild Ride With Demon Chauffeur . I have seen records kept by the courts registrars for future reference by the descendants of these Irishmen who now practically boycott the British courts. To get judgment against a neighbor in a British court is by these Irishmen as disgraceful as to' have Judgment rendered against ones-selI'",- I have seen Protestant Unionists appeal to such Sinn Fein courts for protection and decisions. And, finally, I have known .several cases in which large sums of money have been subscribed n Feiners for the upkeep of such courts by The September 22. world, most fascinating drama ia unfolding today in Irelrnd. But it ia unfolding behind the scenes. So far the world has been permitted to see only its more obvious aides. Now I propose to lift ths curtain a little and reveal the secret phases, the individual episodes that are being played by real-lif- e actors of both sexes, some still in their teens, in UBLIN, consid-sider- f. anti-Sin- ,an atmosphere of 'battle, murder and sudden a drama pulsating with personality, full of death escapes such as usually are only dreams among Irishmen and by Englishmen. : Why? You a sk."T Because, as one of these subscribers said: I have had play, through Protestant and -'-Unlonist-a!ikerfrom -- Sinn Fein. Only Sinn Fein - has been able to protect my property, I am glad to pay for protection. ' These statements are not conjured out of my imagination, they set forth facts. hair-bread- th of fictionista. fjr But this drama, unless its course be changed, may lead to changes in the map of the world. Unless its course be changed You who read this will be able to judge the task that lies before those who seek to stay it It is one which perhaps the secret services of all the world could not perform, which, because of its unique -- Self-relianc- For some five months I have had opportuni- - ties pever before given to any journalist, so far as I know, to study those two words, and I here record wltat I have seen without bias, or fear, or politics. These are the facts, nothing more nor less. . Sinn Feins sword is one edge, the the The brain the destructive. constructive, other, that guides that swords lightning play rapidly is passing from the use of the destructive edge to that of the' edge constructive the edge, that, for better or for worse, is hewing from the rock of events the foundations of a new Ireland- f. Whether this new Ireland shall succeed or faih lies on the lap of the gods but every Sinn Feiner, and this means four out of five of all the men and two-edge- d, women, yea, and all the children, too, in Ireland, today believes that the gods fight for Sinn Fein. is right. Perhaps it is wrong. Perhaps this-vieis business in not this article to try to judge. I It my whose personal habits, methods of thought, idiosyncrasies and weaknesses are not better known t5 Sinn Fein than to his own wife or sweetheart. That is largely the reason for these sensational coups that so closely have held the worlds attention. It may be the officers personal servant or batman; it may be his laundress; or it may be Micky the Fool at the corner of the barracks. But it is sure to be someone. Nobody, except those whose business it is, knows who the psychological analyst may be. But he or is there. she it is often a she When you come to the League of the Women, you are facing a mixture of tragic passion and con- , cunning and splendid and amazing courtesy; grim distraction that never has had its parallel in this highly . . volved world. tagious smiles; fine-edge- d dare-devil- ry y BEYOND BRITISH UNDERSTANDING. Artksr Griffith, The rfrstaa at Stas Pels. DE VALERAS DEMON CHAUFFEUR. the destructive and come to the constructive, I will take you with me out into the dawn of a Clare morning with De Valeras own demon chauffeur at the steering wheel of a car that, as he says, can do its sixty without sweating a hair. We are off on a tour for the collection of the Dail Eireann loan.' The impeccably respectable waiter of the little West of Ireland hotel has just pulled the string attached to my, toe, the other end of which hangs down outside our bedroom window. In a house full of G men or spies, in the language of Sinn Fein, ordinary methods of awakening are sidestepped. We hurl ourselves into our clothes as, from the .far distance, we hear the drone of Micky the Divil, as our driver Is known. w We are down the stairs and past the astonished y detective on guard at the bottom, in and a minute or two. Then we are into the car and drivbeyond the town in the grey ing moist dawn of a Clare morning, out past the Sinn Fein picket, who salutes us military fashion, though he be crouched under the hedge. And so we go into the heart of the red, angry sun that is flooding our headlights. Speed! Speed on the knees of the Lord! Speed! Micky is putting her at it, as he says. For we have to be 60 miles away under two hours, ready for the first mass at the little gray chapel by the side of Lough Derg. We listen to the gathering thunder of our motor ' as we hurl the miles behind us. Then comes a check. The white ribbon of the road cease to run under the car. We are flung against the apron. Micky has seen the signal of a scout lying in the bracken. The dragoons are in the village before' us. Blast them! he says, his fresh young face working with truly fearful hatred in the morning glow. We take him into the car and plunge steeply to the left down, a break-nec- k boreen, or lane, coming out ahead of the line of 'brown ants, defiling be- hind us. We uight'before they can put canter. to the their horses - For half a mile the road on either side is be-Strewn with whitey-blue- y strips of papen We pass a police barracks on the left, gutted, staring nakedly into the morning skies; a gray scaldy crow sits on one of the charred rafters. - To leave law-cour- thing about this rush at a mile a minute through the keen morning air, something about the peoples faces, about this young man, risking life 'and career for the sake of his country all this has got into, my blood, and I feel, quite without rhyme or reason, impelled to cheer, or cry or something. You, by my side, are also Infected. Your eyes are glistening. Your breath comes in gasps. You have almost swung your hat into the air to start that cheer! It is in the air of Ireland. God hdlp her! And England! And us all I There was once that son of an English gm-erbut I forbear. And so for another eighteen hours we rush down dale up hill. We leap valleys and take watercourses and rivers in our stride. We hold our meetings on bleak hillsides where a moment before our coming not a soul was to be seen, but where, a moment afterwards, a hundred, perhaps a thousand people have materialized as if boro suddenly of the grey rocks. In our pockets art cash or thousand dolpromises for $25,000. Twenty-fiv- e of hillsides Clare I On this one lars from the bleak And they will before. have And given they trip. for. give again.- - - 2. - . - 2 - -- -- WHEN SINN FEIN REBELLS, There has been the Inevitable touch of tragedy. You and I saw how, in that last village but one, only nine men appeared to greet us- - We saw that rebellious flaunting of 400 men who marched past us in frank defiance with their cummawns, or hurling sticks, over their shoulders, led by that incarnation of mischief who threw the ugly word at our professor as they went past. We heard from the young curate that personal jealousy was at the bottom of that greein-eyeJealousy. There are many green-eyin Ireland. I dont want and many to glorify anyone or anything which ought not to be glorified. That night, in the wee, sma hours, as we en- tered the old country mansion where we met that clean-face- d boy with, the mop of blonde hair and the blue eyes, upon whose eurly head the British government has set the price of $5,000, dead or alive, we heard the professor tell the story of rebellion. red-head- ed -- d, red-head- red-hea- . ds red-head- v SINN FEINS CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE. Prisons are being prepared throughout the dissouth and west of Ireland in Sinn time these lines and the by tricts, appear, Fein prisons will exist in Ulster. But Sinn Fein relies for the punishment of offenders more upon than upon" imprisonment. ' It is not a - taboos pleasant thing to be under the Sinn Fein taboo. of the British I know a case of an army.' He had Ufted the cattle of a neighbor, was himself, in turn, lifted b the Volunteers and kept in one of Sinn Feins invisible, secret prisons for some months until he confessed his crime td told where he had hidden the stolen cattle. Then he was barred from the district for a period of some months, and now Is forced, each day his majestys pension reaches him (he was a ' British soldier and draws a pension at One of the higher rates) to hand over a portion of the sum received to be applied to the repayment of the man who suffered less through his dishonesty., and thefts. I know a place in Clare where some cattle-drivert who had coveted the house and land of a woman were rounded up, captured and made to repair all the damage they had done to her farm and to restore her animals; then they were competed to work for her and help her toward pros- perity. Poetic justice! They had tried to ruin her. After all this punishment had bees inflicted ' and carried out a taboo line of a mile in circumference was drawn about the widows farm. No amount of gold to be found in this extraordinary world could induce one of these men to crow that - taboo line to defy that invisible boundary. I know of cases of men banished from Ireland for a term. of months or even years, as punishment for crimes. They will make no effort to return. They know better. Some of them today are in None will dare tq venture into Ireland until is finished. For obvious reasons none term hia, ever will appeal to the British authorities. , . Lon--do- n. We saw the boy, without a word, take up the . ' volume of Brown jngs poems which was lying on , Will gtand planted go out into Jhe wolfs throat Space forbid! me to do more than to refer to of a Clare night, and, as the professor said, that s that new and mysterious political weapon the that -- BUPPr to those commercial However, thergj!. another and a pleasanter national- - (not local) boycott, of Irish liner! on the establishment the for schemes side to the Sinn Fein story, which tells of the conroutes under the triand ocean trade passenger Somestructive work of the energetic association. to the installor is jn operation), times this constructive side hss destruction mixed color (one now the ambassadors and consuls throughout ment of up with it; but what of that? Its there. world. First there is the complex legal system which But, as Arthur Griffiths the brain of Sinn Sinn Fein has evolved in the face of British as De Velers ia its voice" --said to me the Fein, police and soldiers. ' I was the first journalist ever admitted to a other day: success relies for its Fein upon CON- Sinn Sinn Fein midnight court, and it was only with test Britains strength. law-cour- ts, -- is not onIysendmenULWenrnate alro the appear to hard, cold sense to money, to efficiency, to practical knowledge of real things." What I have had to say, I must explain (perhaps it is reiterate) is not the expression of opinion as to whether the things of which I. I Today, now that the courts have entered upon what may be termed the constitutional stage, an ouUiders visit, like the .courts work. Is not so interesting because it is not so dangerous. Let me tell you in a few sentences what I have seen in these courts, held in desolate valleys of Ir.Ul nd .b.ii4onrf MMI.n if.' UrarimtU. U. I, '-- -I- have attended a Court of Appeal (for Sinn Fein has a judicial system exactly modelled upon onettseUsto daceJ--at wWch seven cate land-ca(appeals from Sinn Fein lower eourU) were hoard and judgment given within a couple of hours. I have heard the most difficult witnesses in the world give their evidence without equivocation and directly with the fear of God and man in their hearts, for thy were aware that the men and women back there in the shadows knew whether they were speaking truth or Jm, and they knew th -- ... " I" !.' 1 rt th 1 fcy th vU bl - k.f f se penalty of defying th "Iriah republic tetmne of falsehood. . f" I "th ten-pou- es ' ay al ' f . half-sleep- - r ts Is building Behind this system of la unlqud and of that a police system prisons up both in desigr. and in effectiveness. Today it it ' admitted that the policing of the Irish island Is in hands of the Irish Volunteers whq. track doom .the ordinary civil criminals with the ability of Sher - lock Holmeses. I, myself, recently have seen the first placards Issued by the republic With relation to the apprehension of criminals. And I have seen the criminals, themselves, forced to placard their own offenses and to make reparations there- - Ceastabalarjr Barrack a. She might have been telling me about a Dorcas Society meeting or a tennis game. That is the spirit of the Cumann Na Mban, as it has always been the spirit of Ireland through the centuries-- to laugh in the face of death to kill with a fine courtesy and to die like a gentleman or lady. iniutof half-a-doz- en ef as AnsersS WfaSew ef a Irish View freak Be lew As I heard a young English officer say from behind the hedge of tanks, bayonets and barbed-wir- e am your reporter. with which their friends were being kept from the Today the destructve side of Sinn Fein rests hunger-striker- s outside Mountjoy jail: upon a triple foundation. First, there is a matchIrishwomen These are the devil and all! less National Secret Service, of some three millions He looked bewildered- - He was bewildered. of men, women and' children (and dont forget the Bewilderment is his countrys national condition children). where and when Ireland is concerned. Secondly, there is a twin pillar of the Cumann These beautiful, extraordinarily Irish coleens are Na Mban, (pronounced kummin no mon), or ubiquitous. They can love, these Irish women all League of the Women on the one hand, and the Irish the world knows that; they can laugh when death is Republican Army on the other. near for I have seen then; (and whisper this). Third, there is that white-ho- t spirit which, durThey can kill if they think needs must be to' save ing the last seven centuries, again and again has Ireland. 1 leaped from its own ashes into flame and which dares these seen women have Irish I Oh, fifty of them hold back a crowd of 50,000 with murder in all, fearing nothing. its eyes, simply by linking hands and hearts across Consider this terrible Secret Service weapon. Without fear of contradiction by anyone who its front. I have seen them, under the control of a fair young colonel of their own sex who in mat-te- n knows the facts, I say that neither woman, man, of discipline could give fits to any Junker that child, nor dog can enter or leave Ireland without ever stepped in jack-boot- s, forbid journalists and the Sinn Fein Secret Service knowing of it. celebrities of international fame admittance to a - -- From the- - time sn ..English officer or official prescribed area. The women, "here in Ireland, are organized, you- boards the trains at Euston Station, London, until he know, and organized to fight if need be. is safely barracked or joins Lord French at Dublin Some day, when the further secret story of IreCastle, he is under observation. land is told, it will be found that cherchez la femme And I say nothing of the British Secret Service has taken on new meanings here in the Emerald Isle. It was one of these interesting young Irish which at least shadows every special correspondent machine guns and women who in face of entering Ireland. I know that upon one of my jour-ey- s a circling ayeoplane hung to the tailboard of an NEAT WORK IN A BARRACKS. for the Deseret News to Ireland, no fewer than with bayonets, and English army lorry, three of these gentlemen photographed me mental"The Ballyhick barracks, says the young chalked on i nonchalantly: Up, rebels! who is to do the of while the series hat Literature, their a over of was I another months. It removing my professor , English (by who, coldly ly, materialized myshad who loan and the for of under noses the of the the talking expedient police, by calm request) to give them the better opportunity from- - a little cabin at the side of the rosd themcaedomebundredoMhousands teriously to make a careful study of me and impress niywearing of pamphlets, preaching lurid rebellion. How she appearance on their memories. eluded discovery, I am not at liberty to disclose. stroyed their literature, he says with a twinkle. SHADOWING SHADOWS- The wet roads are streaming past, pools of These women are drilled to a finger-nai- l. v Their 200 branches not only are responsible for water raining upward at the impact of our wheels. And then all these government shadows are shadmuch of the .administration of the Dail Eireann, or We turn sharply to the right and reach a little outowed, and then' their sha dowers are shadowed in their Irish Parliament, throughout the country, but have chapel, of no one knows how many centuries, turot a completely equipped and regularly trained Red side which the congregation is waiting. The par ith priest, a splendid figure of a man, Tonight I am watched by policeman who are Cross service, with camp and kitcheiv utensils for modmounts the chapel steps and says in a low voice "watched by eecTet sendee men who are watched by : field work. They are organized upon the most ' his people: to exero lines by Irish Red Cross nurses whohad Sinn Fain era here. Put are Eireann Dail -of a "The the genU perience upon the western front ' Nobody can blame the British government for God and Ireland Their discipline is uncanny. your Ha shadowing, if one regards Ireland from the of-note into the hands of th They are not all peasants these fighting giris He flings a ficiel point of view. Three detective arms have been of Ireland. Among them are many from old lines ball rolling professor, to set the ' We collect by promise (and every promise willOne of them, a titled lady, told the best families. employed one, that of the Dublin Metropolitan PoAt me With complete complacency tinged with rrgret be faithfully kept) or by hard cash $2,500. lice; another, that of the Royal Irish Constabulary British general in the next chape! we best that record by $R00. At how she had "potted a khaki-cla- d . (a separate body), and the last, a military detective a window of a leading Dublin hotel, during the ris- our last village. $5, 000 is totaled. service. en. , - "Dont let the Americans shame yef exhorts ing in Easter week, .without murdering him I know a case where a Metropolitan detective the young professor here, his face shining like that tirely." was shadowed by a military detective, who- - was I hit him in the lower ribs," she said, missing of n prophet of oWL I am your newspapers correspondent. Ia Ireshadowed by a Royal Irish Secret service man, whilst his heart. But since then I have taken shooting land I am not avowed-t- o have politics. But aomd- lessons."' S'na Feiners shadowed the lot! , -- -- ' INVISIBLE PRISONS. the Dali Elreaaa (Iriah Parllaai eat) HeaSaaartera W kra Mr. OKellr. H. P. Was A 1SB( These ArresteS. RalS Psychology is Sinn Feins strong hand. nature, might dqfy with equanimity the armies of . - 1 Today, there is not a single higher officer comthe earth. Sinn Fein does not mean ourselves alone. manding the 120,000 British soldiers m the country, It means, simply ed and every man in England. For England know that, geogrsphicaHy and in som other ways, Ireland ia the key to th British empire. Fo John Bull wont let go. He dare not. And, apparently, Ireland wont stay held. What will the end of it all be? Faith, I dunno. SHAW DESMOND. (Copyright, 1620, by Edward Marshall Syndicate, --- 1- Inc.) U I |
