AN AMERICAN'S VIEW OF IRELAND'S FUTURE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3134, 11 September 1922, Page 8

AN AMERICAN'S VIEW OF IRELAND'S FUTURE.

"Alv belie) is thiit tho rebellion in Dublin will prove a blessing in disguise. The overwhelming majority of llie Irish people is infuriated with the so-called Republicans, and I think that in a lew years Ireland will he anion<t the most loyal and devoted of the. dominions <>l tin' British Kjnpire.” in these words .Mr P. A. O’Parrell, a distinguished American, who had just arrived in London after a visit to Ireland, summed up to a Daily Chronicle representative Ids views on the Irish situation. -Mr O'Karrell visited nearly every part ol Ireland and met repn\sentat i\e men ol all parlies and classes, including some ol the heads ol the Provisional (I'overnmenl. '' Kverybody in Ireland knows that Ihe anarchists—lor the rebels arc nothine more than anarchists masquerading as I’epiihlieans— nnmher no more than one per cent, ol the total population ol the country,’' says Mr O’Parrell. (,)uile 7d per cent, of the rebels are hoys under IP. and (he leaders art' mostly ne’er-do-wells, adventurers, or invspoiisdnles u ho have no business or technical trainino, and regard rebellion as an oppm lunity as well as an adventure. Armed ol tin* rebels have boeo miin.Lt about the country in motorears and on bicycles looting; shops, provision stores and private houses, under the pretext ol ‘eommandeerine.’ In Ireland •eommandeeriim’ is now (lunew name for pilfering, stealing:, pillauiim and highway robbery. Those' so-called Irish Republican Forces are more irresponsible and anarchistic than .Mexican brigands. I)e Valera is now probably the most haled man in I rela ml. “People in Dublin," continued Mr D I‘arrell, “are more than indionant over the destruction of the Pour Courts, and there is no punishenmt that they would not willingly see indicted on the rebels. A hopeful sign is that the I nionists in Southern Ireland with a loyalty beyond praise are willing to co-operate with the Provisional Government for the restoration ol peace and the reconstruction of the country. If only the Ulster Nationalists will co-operate similarly with the I Isttr Government, then Ireland should be at the dawn ol a new and glorious period of her history."