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“No man has at rlgm
to fix the boundary of
never shall."
FARNELL
"Thlo II no
u. flnal settlement
than this is the final
generation."
GRIFFITH.
n o.“e
DUBLIN, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1922.
[PRICE 'nvoi3i7:Ncr..
‘arr-as sins or one
naieiaeonss. ’
AND THE NEEDS ‘OF
MEN worth the name of leaders will put the
needs of their own community before the
sins of their neighbours. It is necessary at this
moment to make this statement as emphatir-ally
as it can be made, because there is ii inarkcd dis-
position to base our policy upon the sins of our
neighbours rather than upon our own needs. It
is. of course, only too true that the sins of our
neighbours are exceedingly bad and that their
sins atlcct us to some extent.’ The crimes of
Belfast cry aloud to Heaven. They are of the kind
that brought the Turkish Empire to its end. They
are of the kind that made the name of Armenia.
the symbol of atrocity. They are of the kind which
committed in any other’ place, would fill the
columns of the British press with condemnation
and would possiblv inspire some potential Glads
As they
are committed in Belfast, and as Belfast is the
Irish outpost of the, British Empire, nothing in
condemnation Wil a said or need be expected.
nstoad, we may he treated to columns extolling
the heroism of “ Ulster ” and the steadfast ncss of
the “ lo) ulty" of her sons. Tlfese sins of coni-
mission. 1 these cold-blooded dmassa
- -..g..
:..:RR> poymiazion,’ are; r‘ ‘c arse, ofiiii ortance
to us. ' The people concerned are our peop o ; they
are loyal to our ideals ; they have fought 0. hard
iigzht against fearful odds, and because of these
):
tliiigs we sic naturally concerned for their welfare. >
And the crimes against them are oisoning our
social and politicallife. In that fact ies the danger
or us. We can, if we so choose, drift steadily from’
anarchy into comple-te'c am. “e can have the
ruin of our country completed and all possibility
of reconstruction in our time rendered absolutely
prosperous future “ go down in disastvr and woci”
It is surely not that for which our people has
struggled and dreamed. Patriots have not died
an that Ireland should cease to exist, and our very
existence it is that is threatened now.
The Truth in Wartime.
By dwelling unduly upon the sins of our neigh-
bours we are apt to overlook our own. We have
for long thought and spoken of the hypocrisy of’
IV
K Eng and. have become somewhat morbid
on the subject of hypocrisy, and perhaps for that
reason we have ceased to realise zicutelv the
meaning of tho,word and to recognise readily the
thing itself. Most of us who are fully conscious of
the great change that has“come about because of
tho Treaty are thoroughly aware that our country
rt-quires ii. period of more 'sciplinc. During the
war period ends were loosed which no normal
community can afford to have permanently loosed
V and uhich only a state of war can Justify. Every
country has had to experience such a state at some
time in its history, and every country party to the
world war is suffering to a great or small degree.
During a war truth, even as we generally under-
stand the word, is not a very much practised
‘virtue. ’ To the citizens of every country their
own country must be right, and governments trike
[grout care that what their citizens like should be
given unto them. Every conceivable Lind of non-
sense is passed out and engerly acct-ptrd with
patriotic fervour. The citizen who prefers truth
may be regarded as 11 traitor. In time of war this
is possibly justifiable; but when war cnds its
OUR OWN COMMUNITY.
practice is a crime against the community. Our
war has ended. By the signatures of our accred.ited
representatives, by the vote of our elected deputies
in parliament assembled and by the votes of our
people at the recent gcncral election we have made
peace with England. Any person who attempts
to go behind this threefold pact is not a. friend of
Ireland. They are, if not active enemies, at least
disturbcrs of that peace which the entire country
needs and which our people definitely demand.
We are, as a people, no loss bound by our own and
our representatives’ acts as are those who still
cling to their oath to ii republic yet to be born.
Let us have finished with the fiction that we are-
not, and act accordingly.
The Level of the Belfast Mob.
We have scceptedtho Treaty-let us proceed
to work it. We are ztwnre that the Treaty con-
tains special provision for the six counties which
pass in England for Ulster. We are all of us aware
of the nature of this pnivision, and we should
work it nodess than the remainder of the Treaty.
We must get from th
full
. u > > 4" u "- ’ '1’”"1’. .
I we mus rose for the boundary rectification. It
is, of course, a thing abliorrrnt to us to have any
boundary in Ireland except our four seas; but
we must bear in mind that the Orangemau in
Belfast does not see eye to eye with us, and we
must either concede his desire to’ live apart or
force him and Eiiglmitl, his supporter, to come.
within our jurisdiction. ‘an we force him now
without a breach of the Treaty ! It is the opinion
of one that we cannot. We must therefore make
the best of our bargain and S(‘(‘llf‘0 as best we can
the lives and liberties of our pcnplc within the
Six Counties. We are hzirdly likely to do this by
revolvers and machinerguns. In fact the use of
these is more likely to have an opposite cliect. It
is by- recognition and negotiation that we are
most likely to reach our objective at the moment.
And we must hasten lest our people suffer more
grievous wrong than they have yet suffered.
Shooting will only beget sliooting, blood will be
shed for blood, reprisal will follow roprisol, until
we all sink to the level of the Belfast mob. And
we must stop and negotiate snnietime. Is it not
better to stop and negotiate now before more
lives are lost and greater ferocity let loose 2 We
must not think only of the sins of the Orange
mobs; we must think also of the needs of our
own people, now open to iiiassaoro. Feeding and
housing thousands of rt-tiigccs, though necessary
and use iii, are not rnuugli. Our government
must get to work to In ’t:Iii4 the necessity for
people becoming rcfiigt-us at all.
Mural ccurags to lace Reality.
’ Thus far are the sins of our in-ighbours-what
of our own needs. The overwhelming verdict of
our pcople has l)9!‘l1 given in favour of peace and
order. Our need is lziimt crrtainly peace and a
rcstorntioii of orderly conditions of life. If there
, is to be any prospect of econoniic progress in our
‘ generation it is css0nti.".l that we now take advan-
tage of the opportunities olicrcd us. “'hilc we
harc people in our midst who are not only Willing
but actually eager to resort to the gun as :i method
of argument, we cannot have any settled existence
i and we can have no basis for advance. The law
e (‘:'.ii<z govornmexit a definite-.
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‘ghis mi
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REAL POLITICS.
AN END TO THE OLD.
IN Iielnnd there are many honest persona and
in the some country there are many who
amn’t. This state of things isn't pccutiar to
Ireland. Explorers have informed us that similar
phenomena is to be observed in lands beyond the
sea. And there are politicians in these countrirs
as in Ireland. Ono w io has gone very far puts
it that "Tin-re be many countries also where
inen‘s ht-ads do gmxv beneath tlitll.‘ shouldors,
and they march in backward dimction to achioio
their dc:;tinn.tiori.” It is a marvellous old world.
But of all human types existent is there one
that ironsidcrs itself so much exempt from the
practice of “ common" honesty as tho politivian
type I All other types, at one time or another,
reach the stool oi repentance. But the polititian
is hidden, even from himso . la sins in the
public interest. His oretho wires that cxaltcth
a nation and setttih it amongst those that iii!)
in the race of glory. Such is the polit
noble intention, at any rate, for nhy
sin is soul if not for noble ends.
politician t'Ul".(leUlHQd to the treadmill ot‘tad,
good deeds for ever and ever, amen, in the into .55
of the conipclling overriding morality of national,
and, let’: say itrparty ends. ,
iut the day of his rescue has dawned. Not
really a boil chap at heart, his was the upprentitfw
ship served to a badptmdo at the iiistm-.<-e of
“j"li(tteV'cr gods th(-re‘.be.” The C0 iution
it’-“hifs
‘Come, I will protect you from yourself. I will
set the course so that you must run straight. I
uil.l set the liodges so that you must run l)v:twcon,
or, if you don't, you will go on the thoi'us.”
The Constitution by the calling into existence
of a self-regulating system of n:cc-hincry s L‘ '
to niske pum the heart of the :1" -stain:-d politirinn.
Thank heavrn for the Co t
and cnuntvrv<'hocl;e<l, his job defined, publicity
giiarzintocd, micrnudcd and initiated, old man
politician " fool for a while like a new boy
&l’llVL'(l in ft strange school. Old Il".0d('l<, traditions,
viewpoints uill ho swept away, the fresh air of a
now, well ciilruloxtctl frccdoni will swoop liciilttily
through the political BysfA‘i).l and make democracy
Continual an
of .9 gun must raise. There can be no question of
that; our people have said so, and it is for our
government to son that the will of the people as:
stated is made to prevail. To do so will be diflicult
-there is nothing to be gained by either tliinljng:
or saying that it uill not-but dll.Il(’Illt and smur-
what (listnstoiul as the work i: y be, it must be
done, and done In quickly as possible. We must
hope that wn have at our di.spo.sal the itatrsvn '
ship requisite for tho task. 'lh9 work of it pol.it'.c;il
revolutionary is sonictinics not. good training for
the work of rccozistructive statcsmemship. And
Ireland now needs the best and hi“ st forms of
statesinzinsliip that have been ocnnmdcd in
Europa si 1: Cavour. We can only have Icith
that our ciiosen loaders have the o,uxll‘iius that their
time demands. There must be courage-not the
hyslc-al variety only, but moral courage to faces
facts and no think in terms of reality. It has born
out pi'it‘ilt‘g’lW for long to live in A land of dreams ;
we could blame John Bull when things vrciit wrong.
lVe must now become aware that Kathleen Ni
Houlihan is the mother of over 4,000,000 children,
and thny must be fed and housed and clothr-d.
We must be prepared to forget the mythical
motherand be very much prepared to pay attention
to the children: If we neglect them, they will
certainly remember the fact. '
ANDREW E. MALONE,