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Show GREY ADVANCES IRISH SOLUTION Government of Erin Now Is Reproached and Discredited, He Declares LONDON. R?pt 30. Viscount Grey. former ambassador to the Lim'l States, in n letter to the Westminster i Gazette today jniis forward new proposals pro-posals for the solution df the Irish! problem He said ' The gov ernment of Ireland has never been Such a reproach re-proach nd discredit to British stutes-; manship as It is today" l ie declared j the present home nile bill w;.s nol at -cepted by any one and says: "The only practicable policy that offers of-fers any prospects of success seems to me to have three cardinal points, first. I a definite announcement that for those' two islands of Grout Britain and Ire-! land mere can be only one foreign pol- I Icy, one army ami navy and that we can not Stand separation In these matters mat-ters any more than the north Could' stand the separation of (lie south in I the I'nited States. 'Second, with this exception Irish-1 men must be as free as the peoples i the great self-governing dominions to settle tor ttieni'OlVM how inclr cun-l trj is to i governed- "ililirl, to fcive time for them to come to an agieemcnt with each other and draw up their own .scheme, the j British government wid continue to perforin as best it can the function Of government in Ireland for a period not to exceed two years, bill it the! end of that period, or soonci ki In land is ready, it will OJdthdra.W, CO.MH I IONS Ui I'l.t) 1 1 "The government oi Ireland has never been such a repionch and discredit dis-credit tO Llrltlsh statesmanship as it is today ," lie said. "It nus been unable to punish 01 prevent the constant murder of those who serve It. In parts of Ireland Its authority has apparently ce.-wjtd and DSen superseded by Sum I'ein courts, from v ni h alone can any redress i-j obtained for ordinary crime or nrronS doing. ;ind some, if not all. of the once! Unionist minority In nationalist ire-1 land, hopeless of protection from ih 1 Hntish government, S now advocating dominion home ruie. or looking to an I agreement wltn the Sinn Pelfl ' The British administration, In fact. I is exhibiting the helplessness of an i extreme!' feeble government while Incurring In-curring all the uiiium of one thai rules by torce. Ireland is more discontent-1 ed tnan ever and tnere is no prospect of a settlement or impro ement. LOOK mil u "To this we have come alter centu-. rles of British rule, and It would be well for any one, whether he be a Honn- Kuler or a Unionist, to look for tne cause with a fresh mind. The permanent underlying cause of a failure su prolonged and persistent persist-ent att that In Ireland Is not to bv I found In the short-comings of individual indi-vidual governments, not oven in those of the present government Faulty as all governments may be and as many British governments in Ireland certain!) cer-tain!) have bi en. the Irish question would have been solved bofoie now but tor one thing the difference between be-tween Irishmen themselves, that Is, between Lister or part of Ulster and, the rest of Ireland. And the lesson! of past years is that this difference Is inflamed and not composed by Brit-1 ish proposals for the government oil li eland The present home rule bill now before parliament is no exception. There i. much to say In the abstract for the lines on which It is drawn th.-y could easily be expanded into; dominion home rule for a united Ire-j land. But apparent!) no one w nits the bill; no oik- accepts it as a solu- tion, and Irishmen will refuse to put it into operation. We must 'therefore look to some other policy lor relief BAKU ViNH ILL 1 AIL "Nothing that Is In the nature of a1 bargain between the British govern I ment and one part Of Ireland has any 1 chance of SUCCOSS. Jf the Sinn Fein accepts it. l ister win denounce it; in Ulster accepts It. the Sinn I'ein will reject it. The only prospect lor future peace i and good government in Ireland Is I that the Irish should draw up their! own scheme. This is a point which Lord Hugh Cecil made very Clearly u few weeks ago But this proposal had, 1 think, a fatal defect it Stopped short of the ony thing essential to! make Irishmen agree upon theii own proolema They will never do this except ex-cept under pressure of a real sense of rt iponslbllity "This Is w hat they never yet had I for it has always been understood that j as Ion as I n;-di tu.-n differed Great I Britain would on governing or pro-' posing plans for the government of i Ireland. As long as this la so, the' Irish convention or constituent aesam-1 blv will eltner differ and break up In Internal discord or propose something! Which they know we can not agree to.' Probably II will do both of those things I and the present intolerable state In Ireland will continue Indefinitely ' |