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Show E IRISH QUESTION I F-.id hv 'The Catholic Citizen," a Newspaper Published IJMjPY y in Milwaukee mini" ""J1" , or Mir rs'V" IS out of ever) u' ,,, 1 19' r"' BSBbW. ih - r olEjy tl ' r jonrs m010 ui'm ur-l ur-l lrcbn.J uncitr Mfhclr, . u" md -flke K P T hi-ir nor. ineea In very titlon . i , , . ..stlc .,,, H' i I tlicir purpose, the, R? lhrtr kl"ng"nlnind E .rnan m rfal the' f , . .., Lloyd Qfeorge '1 2, VoP' of bailee to; BSu!" f English Sn-nun th Irish M gff natural national and hls-tfii" hls-tfii" of Americans."-) fisrsou- E oniUiai " . Ion In Ire-' fS&s. including C P. mot t The M mefceater l! 5,r GMbcrl Murray. H .G . fn' Sli Hub' rl ; ug;li and ; ,Hir rinlii Qibb, a published In the London Times, S .t 1 4 . 191'0. The letter States: "It is a no uncommon un-common experience, for Whole streets to bs burned, preamerlos destrovod and f,. taken In linlis.ilinln.it.- re-prlsaln re-prlsaln hy which soldiers and policemen police-men avenge the murder of constables. iN'ot for .1 century hss there been such an outbreak of military violence In these island The government has : failed to restrain or punish thla violence, vio-lence, ami they have now taken steps jto prevent any civilian court from calling attention to it " The protest declares: "If these proceedings were of uini to put an end to outrages and noi to cause fur-ther fur-ther rtiischlei they would not h:e called ilonn the condemnation Of such men an Lord Monteagle, i.ord Shaftesbury. Shaft-esbury. Sir Horace riunUett and oilier oili-er leading Irlshiiu n : Brig "Jen. Tlionison, who accotn-Ibanied accotn-Ibanied the labor delegation u Ireland 'dencrlblnR the troops in Ireland today, to-day, said that members of the Ro -,al Irlxh constabulary behaved "like bwaggvi-iiiR bullies" am) charged that nian of them frequently were dfunk. i ' Some of the officers are degener-,ates degener-,ates who .ire protected by mrn iii hiph plan a. 1C said Henry W. NeMn'sOn, one of Britain's Brit-ain's most distinguished war corre spondehts, returned froin a visit to Ireland now takes occasion to write apologies in i hp 6hades of Bultatt A dul HaRltd and the late tzar. whpsc rule he had fiercely attacked In former year, saying to them: "The conduct "f our own British government in In land has proved to me tlun no englishman his ever had the richt to denounce or condemn an crime yb'p nl your ministers niay have b.erpstrated.' Lieutenant Commander Kejiworthy, i:ngiiF:i giembei Parliament for Hull, tn arte the following accusation In the English House of Commons on Monday, i The quotation is made from the report of the Parliamentary Parlia-mentary proceedings winch appeared in' The Manchester Guardian of ct 2b, 1920; "Ho wished to make a definite accusation ac-cusation thai a ploi nhd been arrangr ed between the heads' --f the war office of-fice with a certain section of the cabi net and the heads of the army in Ire-land Ire-land lv whleli eerl.iiti prisons had undertaken, if given a free hand to apply to the disturbed parts of I re-la re-la ml the method;- that were being used for" dealing with the savage 'lilies on the northwest frontiers of India, anii they had guaranteed Wth-i Wth-i in a certain time to break the spirit 'oj the Irish people" RBPOftT Ol I.Vt.MMI I.VBOR COMMISSION I ( By cable to the Associated Press December De-cember 1920 i A movement to place the full Weight of British organized labor in suppoit of the Irish seir-determina-tlon claims began with a special con-1 feren'ce of the Parliamentary Labor, party in London Wednesday, at which I the party's commission, that inves-tigated inves-tigated the situation m Ireland, made its report J a resolution was adopted challenging challeng-ing the government to disprove Ihej commission's accusatlopi leyardinK !i prl all .md other omrages charred the crown forces and .ailin fori a full Judicial inquiry . A. f, QgmSTOn, chairman of the, i nference. characterized the cum-! mission's report as "the most ser'oue indlctraenl against British methods in Ireland ever placed hefor the Bvlt-Ish Bvlt-Ish people." Me added. "As a ie-sult ie-sult of her handling of th Irish qus-1 Hon. Great Britain hns not a friend In the- world. ' The labor comm i50ion report waa a stern denunciation of terrorism In rrelandi and a strong eKpresalbn of the futility Of coercive methods to Suppress either the Sinn Vein or the republican arms The report laya the incendiarism in Cork to the crown forces and em-phatlcoll) em-phatlcoll) declares the Shooting of civilians at "ioe pari; In Dublin, after 16 officers were shot, was not precipitated by any firing from the crowd! The British Labor Commission refers re-fers to the Block and Tan auxiliaries III Ireland as ' the instrument of those reaction. ii forces which die-in die-in the Irish policy of the British cm eminent." And the fear is expressed that La-t'oi La-t'oi in England may have this instrument instru-ment turned against it "It is a ploss weapon which is beln forged in Ireland and could be used In KnR land ' BRITISH STATESMEN ADMIT IT John Morlej ( now Lord Morley i criticising the present phase of British Brit-ish misrule in Ireland, declares. "s'ay what yon will, all must realize real-ize that a resort to exceptional repression re-pression must be counted as an admission ad-mission of failure and a mark of weakness, not of strength." "The only Irish policy which the prime minister has to offer is ft repudiation. repu-diation. ic.iiind branch, of Domln- Ion Home Rule, and a eondonatioti (for -ii it will unlversjilly hn unde-r-stood). of the hellish tolicy of reprisals. repris-als. Tlie attempt to answer 'murder by murder .in4 outrage by terrorism Is not government but anarchy.'' Former Premier asqulth. Sir Horacf Plunkptt, in a letter to the London Time says: j plead for an understanding of nrV countrymen, for an immediate ending of a treatment calculated to misende.r the rerj qualities is sup posej to cure, and for an honorable redemption, In 'he spirit rather than m the letter, of the pledge given by England to Ireland In 1114. the breaking break-ing of Which IB the causa eausans of the most discreditable Irish situation w hi. h ?'. ei llsfc-raeed British statesmanship states-manship In its dealings with Ireland." Ire-land." Sir Horace Plunkett is a Protestant and a? chief secretary for Ireland in the Tory cabinet of 1K93-8. WHA T 0ORT OF OOVF.UN.MKM- Tins? A letter to the London Times from Bishop Cohaian of Cork, mHke? thli telling point. "Several Innocent people have been, murdered by the police In the way of reprisals The Ko ernmcni. of Ireland Ire-land has come to this - thai when n pOlfSSRISn is mm tiered no attempt Is made to discover the murderer, but the police In reta.lfa.tlon murder somebody some-body else. ' A government whi. h meets disorder disor-der b perpetrating worse disorders auivuts its lailure. t ( By Asol lated Press i "Block and T3ns perpetrated an other bombing in Cork earl Satur-iday Satur-iday Whsn a load 6f explosives was sot off fvUie biK dti pen store, start , in; , fjr,- thai caused .1 1150,000 ijni- age, ie ports sav. j "The entire fire department was called out. but Blsek nml Tans prevented pre-vented the fire fighters from working. and ordered a" volunteer helpers from the scene. 1 "Firemen resisted and street hat tie was fought while the flames swept ( on unchecked The firemen were driven driv-en off." i 1 Think of n eonrtition of ciiv government gov-ernment where the ppllce department prevents the fire department from put-1 ting out fires "whllf the flames BWopt On unchecked" in Ihe husiness iuar I ter ! ) ) (By Associated Prcvi LONDON. Jan. 2 Cork miiitarv . headquarters reported ibis mornitiK that as a res ii; of ambushes Tuesda night yt lilddleton ct. i! Glebehouse County Cork. Die mlllta:v cleenled i burn sev en houses in the viclnlkj Notices were given to the occu-' pants of these seven houses and they were allowed an hour to remove their Valuables, but no furniture, and atj Hie end of that time the soldiers ap- plied the torch The report points to the formal! 'adoption of thla method of burning houses In reprisals where the occu-; pants are BUSPSCtSd tp having knowledge knowl-edge of or aiding attacks on soldiers ,or police. (That is, they ure punished j If even suspected; and without trial), i WHA r LEADING I (.l IMl PAP1 RS SA We have shown that we ran rfval! the basfoi-bazouks of the Sultan and the Black Hundreds of the Cxar, v hnv- done m Ireland things thai the' Germans never did in Posen and' that the Uubsians never equalled in' Poland; v e ha'e aei up government by slaughter and arson, we have organized Kainf" of hooligans lo run; amuck through the land, murdering) and burning Indiscriminately no.i not indlst rlmlnm ely. vji deliberate' ly. Lonrl'in Pall) News. An arm; ahead-.' perilously Indis! Clplthed and a police force avowedly beyond control, lui i) tiled b) he ous acts the reputation of Kncand; whilv the gejver.m-.eul is not free fiotn Suaplcloua and dishonorable con-nlvanoe. con-nlvanoe. ' London Times if benevoleni words ami aspirationaj COUld aval) ii t cure fo, Irish ills. his (Lloyd George's) letter should suffico to ours them. tCothing ould be finer than the Prime Minister's Reuse of toe "prpseni hideot tnd unrChrlstian strife." But tb.c letter ansumed the hideouse :o ss was all on one aide. There la no CUggestlon that a great city has just hud its heart burned out or that ;t thin moment the mack and T.ms ars marching through the same city under i no Sort of control, helping the mail is tO the contents of the shop tills u .' robbing pedestrians on the Btreeti Vet we learn on good authority that this Is the case. Nor does the mur-i dor c ase At the same time, representatives of the press who have the ndescre- , tion to report such things are sean li I ed threatened and told that is not ! safe place for them. Manchestei .J'jardian. y ' "The representatives of ordc on provocation sometimes of most doubtful character, shoot up a town after t ho manner of Wild wesl desperadoes, des-peradoes, terrifying an unarmed civil-Ian civil-Ian population." Tlie Statist. October Oc-tober 'i, 1920 |