Show PROGRESS OF IRISH FREE ST no loss of strength or prestige was shown by the irish free state party in the test votes in the re fumed session ot of the dall dail eirmann in dublin recently although the general impression had been that when the sinn fein convention a few days ago voted a three months truce on the treaty question the republicans had scored a tactical victory in the balloting it is true the majorities given the provisional government were not very large but they were sufficient and significant the poa pos sivility lity remains that mr de do valera lera and his following die diehards hards they are called by many of their appo bents will withdraw from participation in the settlement in other words will secede and set up again the standard of revolt this Is always a privilege claimed by those who cannot have their own way but as time goes on the libell hood Is that the free will gain in power while the others los and that the tension between the two elements will gradually relax it if it were not tor for prolonging th period ot of stress and contusion confusion there fore the postponement of 0 the elec eions tor for three months and the cor responding delay in settling up tho the free state would have obvious ad ail vantages there Is fair reason to believe the proposed s state tate will steadily grow iq 10 favor in ireland as it Is growing in 14 favor day by day la in every country where ireland s true friends are to be found also it is reasonable to expect that some of the formidable problems facing tho the new state at the outset will shrink or disappear with the lapse of i t little time finally those who have been placed at the helm are gaining i in experience hourly and three I 1 months hence they will be able to give more prudent counsel and leadership than even with the best of motives they are qualified to give today more important than haste in concluding the terms of the set Is the question of right an ani I 1 justice and statesmanship in the set itself and after having wasted some seven hundred years tor for that which Is now offered the ovely lovely little green isle can surely wait three months longer before talf ing possession it thereby her poses sion Is made the more substantial la and permanent exchange nib |