Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1924, Page 19

j rule What Europe Is Saying About America IRELAND. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Once upon a time when Irish home |tion, viz.: abstention of their mem- was the paramount issue in British politics, and muddying the waters of American politics besides, a distinguished Englishman said that peace was the last thing that would make the Irish happy—that strife and turmoil were their natural ele- ment. This investigator into Euro- pean conditions of interest to Amer- ica comes upon the Emerald Isle at a moment when Irish skies once again are heavily overcast. The boundary dispute between the Free State and Ulster has assumed acri- monious dimensions. The crisis arose through the refusal of Ulster to ap- point a representative on the bound- ary commission, which under the Anglo-Irish_treaty was also to con- sist of an Irish Free State delegate and a neutral chairman. Ulster con- tends that the commission was in- tended to deal only with a “rectifica- tion” of the boundary, whereas the Free State is claiming more than half of northern Ireland’s territory. At the moment this article is dispatched, the British government is planning to override Ulster by enacting legis- lation in the House of Commons designed to give effect to the tréaty. Irishmen, whether from the north or the south, deplore the outbreak of the boundary conflict, because, how- ever settled, it is bound to rekindle the al smoldering embers of hostility hetween the two geograph- ical sections of the country. Desmond Fitzgerald, the Free State Minister of External Affairs, spoke freely of the controversy, from Dublin’s stand- point. For ANl Ireland. “Briefly,” he sald, “this ia the situa- tion: The negotiations with Great Britain for the treaty, whereby the Free State was created three years ago, were undertaken on behalf of the whole of Ireland, and this fact was recognized and incorporated in Clause 1 of that instrument. The British delegates urged that they were bound by pledges to the minor- ity in Ireland, to the effect that that minority, largely situated in north- east Ulster. should not be coerced. The Irish delegation stated that they wished to avoid all coercion in Ire- land, and, therefore, agreed that while the Free State should be the whole of Ireland. the subordinate government of the six northeastern counties could, by an address to the king within one month of the ratifi- cation of the treaty, ‘opt’ out of the jurisdiction of the Free State. It was provided, however, that in this event the minority in the six counties who wished to belong to the Free State and not to the northern Parlia- ment should have their rights safe- guarded and be allowed to ‘opt’ out of the jurisdiction of the Belfast Par- liament. ,“The area so to be affected was to be decided according to the wishes of the inhabitants, subject to geographic and economic conditions. The bound- ary commission, which is to consider this matter, will presumably begin to operate within a month (by the end of August). Its work should be to de- cide in what areas in the six counties a majority of the people wish to be incorporated in the Free State (hav- ing due regard to geographic and economic conditions), and on these lines to determine the boundary, so that the six county minority whose rights are to be safeguarded may obtain the government of their choice. There have been delays in setting up the commission, but its terms of refer- ence and the work to be done are suf- ficiently clear; and as the Free State government all through has only de- sired that justice be done to the whole of the people of Ireland, we must presume that the findings of the com- mission will be satisfactory.” Position Towards Britaln. The writer asked Minister Desmond to discuss candidly the position and progress of Ireland as a Free State “within the framework” of the Brit- ish Empire. “The visitor to Dublin today.” he replied, “sees a Parliament of the Irish people’s choosing, passing and putting into effect remedial and constructive measures and meeting with no external hindrance in doing s0. The visitor sees an Ireland with a judiciary reconstituted by that Par- liament according to the people’s own ideas and needs. The visitor sees in Ireland with her delegates taking their rightful place in the counsels of Surope, at the League of Nations in @eneva. The visitor finds such evi- dence of external sovereignty as the fesence of Ireland’s own minister- lenipotentiary at Washington and separate and unqualified accept- ance of the Lausanne treaty. “The fact is that Ireland at present Mgs as much of national sovereignty she is able to make full use of. e mass of the people realize this. The anti-treaty party, accepting the logic of facts, are now contenting themselves with constitutional ac- ters from Parliament. At the last election, -despite all the advantages which ' proportional representation confers on a minority, they only se- cured 44 seats out of 153. They have lost every single by-election that they have fought since that date. The 12,000 prisoners held by the govern- ment have been gradually released during the past year, as the govern- ment became convinced that the pub- lic safety would not thereby be en- dangered. The last of them, includ- ing their leader, Mr. De Vaiera, are now free, and their future policy re- mains to be seen. Up to the present it has been a purely negative one. Busy With Healing. “Meanwhile, the Parliament of the nation has been busy with healing and constructive programs. Alto- gether some 70 acts of varying in- tention have been placed within the past two years on its statute books. The land, the police, the judicature, the fiscal question and education have each been dealt with as comprehen- sively as the individual case allowed. An act to subsidize the building of houses and another to develop the country’s roads have been passed to deal with two pressing problems, and, incidentally, to relieve unemploy- ment. The army, rendered necessary by the irregulars’ insurrection, _has been drastically cut down, and other economies have been effected in every department of the national services, 80 that we may hope next year to balance our budget. “The necessity of paying for the the damage done by the irregulars handi- caps the government in dealing with amblitious schemes of reconstruction. Steps, however, have been taken to obtain the report of one of the biggest electrical firms in the world on the potentialities of the Shannon as a source of electrical power. It Is hop- ed that the cheap power which may thus be obtained will enable Irish in- dustry to compete favorably with ex- OR a single girder weigh- ing 66 tons, and measur- ing 124 feet in length, the Commonwealth Edison Company paid approximately $7,500. Hearst’s International is building its popularity upon esmmal “girders” more costlythan any that enter ordinary construc- tionwork. 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Meanwhile, the credit of our principal existing industry— agriculture—is to be strengthened by ‘measures regulating the grading and Ppacking of eggs, butter, etc. “It will be seen that there is work to do fos every willing hand. If the Irish people fail now to develop their country to its fullest possibilities, it will not be for lack of the freedom to do so, but from a fallure of their own will to do Governed by Treaty. Minister Fitzgerald was asked to describe the state of the Irish Free State’s relations. with Great Britain “This can be done in a word,” he sald. “Qur relations are governed by the treaty signed in December, 1921. Both the British and Irish governments have loyally honored it both in the spirit andl In the letter, with the re- sult that harmony exists and no mis- understanding has arisen between .| erating the try. It is compulsorily studied in the public schools, requiring both from teacher and pupil a grinding degree of concentration and laborious effort. Many doubt whether the scheme can ever have practital re- sults. English is as universal in Ire- land as it is in the United States, al- most more so. Official recourses like calling every branch of the govern- ment by a Gaelic name are not oblit- language under which Ireland has been governed for cen- turies. The Free State itself is the “Sarstate Eireann"; the Parliament, the “Dail Eireann. The ministry of external affairs (foreign office) is the “Airecht um. Gnothal Coigriche.” Dublin is “Raile Atha Cliath.” The jawbreaking difficulties which Gaelic conjures up are frankly recognized by the government, which prints these hieroglyphics wiht a parenthetical translation into English. Until the boundary controversy frankly anxious for the Irish to have an untrammeled run for their inde- pendent money, and realize for them- selves that bitters go along with the sweets of home rule. Some Britishers think Ireland some day will have to be reannexed to the “mother country.” The majority, however, thing the Free State is not only on the map to stay, but desitned more and more, the years roll by, to become an independent, solid, self-sustaining commonwealth, with the silken cords attaching it to the empire becoming thinner and thin- ner till the breakaway is con- plete. That sort of talk is heard par- ticularly among the Ilugubrious Britons who think their old empire is' cracking up. One of them, for example, says the great empire ex- hibition at Wembley this Summer is ‘the swansong of hte empire.” This class thinks India will be the next to follow in the independent footsteps nity to cultivate closer commereial, financial, political and social ties with the Americaii Government and people. But one gathers the distinct impression that what Ireland mainly wants from the Irish resident in the United States is to be let alone. Ire- Rind has no desire to perpetuate the Irish hypen in American politics. It is inclined to agree unreservedly with the dictum of George Brennan, Irish boss of Illinois and power in the national councils of the Demo- cratic party—an Irish-American of Irish-Americans, if you please—that when Britain created the Irish Free State she by that act removed the Irish_question from the politics of the United States. It is unquestion- ably along kindred lines that Irish diplomacy at Washington now and henceforward will be modeled. We are fortunate in having as its ex- ponent, as Erin’s first accredited en voy to our Government, an Irishman arose the other day, one might have speen weeks or months in Eng- land without hearing the word Ire- land. even mentioned. John Bull i unmistakably leaving “his other island,” as Bernard Shaw calls it, se- verely alone. The British seem de- termined to let Erin stew in its own juice. They have no malicious de- sire that the juice shall be an un- concoction, but they are them.” Of course, all is not for the best of all possible worlds in Ireland, and it was not natural to expect Min- ister Fitzgerald to dwell upon those things that clamor insistently for re- form and improvement in Erin. Per- haps the feature responsible for one of the deepest undercurrents of dis- satisfaction s the attempt to impose the Gaelic language upon the coun- pleasant A ATl A~ SN ~B A “Shade” Better —is a slogan this shop lives up to in every transaction— from measurements to hanging. Factory prices. ‘W. STOKES SAMMONS, Proprietor N TN RIS Egypt. Ireland—both sections of it—hank- ers for the good will and friendship of the United States. Free State, with its own Minister at Washington, will STORE HOURS: 7:30to 5 Saturdays Until 1 P.M. ONTigp AVY. of the intelligence and discretion of Prof. Smiddy. (Copyright, 1924.) — The title of the Prince of Wales dates back to 1284. 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