Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-11 | Page 8 | Sentiment in Erin Favors Settlement

I SENTIMENT IN ERIN FAVORS SETTLEMENT .1 DUBXlN, Fob. 11. Therc is a greal ( w lglu of general sontinxnt through-a through-a out the country In favor of nn settlC- ment which will end the present T chaos. Irish Catholic bishops ure, foremost among thov-p who are cull cu-ll . couraglng this sentiment. ' Betjpeen the most moderate and the j most extreme NatlOnalflta there Is m i this one point of agreement, that the vl ' decision of the Irish people them- solves must be supreme. Submission i of their attitude to the electors and tho endorsement of that attitude by .1 I the country" voters, is the basis on J whicli Sinn Felners re.t their case. M They say that endorsement must 31 stand, u ! There Is a considerable section of . tho populace, however, who believe 11 the time has arrived for a fresh con- sultation of the people that a new M opportunity should be given for ox-ij ox-ij Hi presslon of the opular will. Tin SUg-q SUg-q geation is made that a formal reft ron-'j ron-'j dum should bp taken as to whether .'j the people still adhere to the uncom- promising Republican policy, or ore A willing to give the now Hoinc Rule 3 m t a trial. H Sir Kdward Carson, for Ulster, has ,j accepted, but Sin Fein has refused the act. In neither case have the people ,1 themselves been consulted ns to what they think of it. I There is even among Sinn Felners 3 a number who believe that it would! 1 bo good tactles to accept the act as far, 9 as It goes, secure the election of Sinn J Felners to tho southern parliament '3 and obtain as much control of the Irish government as possible in the jA same way as they have obtained control con-trol of most of th- local authorities. ! They would then use their new posi-1 tlon as the basts for a fresh advance.'