THE IRISH "SETTLEMENT"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 14 December 1921, Page 7

THE IRISH "SETTLEMENT"

(To the Editor.) Sir. in ihe leading article in <*> nighi's Mail you state, in reference to the Irish agreement thai- 'a, new era had da unci, m,t only for Ireland, but for the I'.ritish Empire, and vvho knows for ihe whole world." You rr,, oa lo sav liial the result of the, iT-o-e.jneru will be far-reaching outside J 1,-eland. It will indeed ! What resnll, for evamplc, may we expect in India, and in Kuvp! ? * Listen to tho •,-...,1'ds of ihe Morning i'osl : "Surrender ~, .'ilwav;; sturemlcr; betrayal, a be- 1 iraval: comlonaiion. a crime.; participation in sin. criminal. Yesterdays even), is Inn the culmination of a steady poliev ~f vielding to threats •md intriguing with rebels. Never be-j :,„•,,. in modern limes, has. ihe British (Joc.iiimeiil quailed before armed rebellion and or-am. M-d assassination and mtaliv forsaken the. King's loyal _ sub- ■;,-.(''=.' It appears thai one benefit to ii>elf impotent to enforce Tin-dish iaw. L'nglUi justice, and Ihe" new work! promised by the Prime .Minister is Ihe disappearance of tho ten commandments." The Kn"'i«h (h.vernmenf has quailed before armed rebellion and organised : ,-a and has, for not tho firM lime, betrayed Us friends and made terms with its enemies. It lias ..Tamed io Sinn Fein Ihe perpetrators of ; , '.erics of diabolical crimes, terms ,bat it is not, prepared to extend to the loud citizens of Ulster, who have supported Britain through thick and ,1m! and who. while the South ot Ireland was actively assisting our enemie- sent, of their best to support ihe Emuire in ihe great European war. All this is to count for nothing, it, appears that the only course open to lilder if she wants better terms is to et-irl a campaign of murder, to derail 1 rains, io shoot in eold blood somo hundreds'of innocent and civilians and io "•execute' helpless men and women of unpopular politic. i views who may fall into her hand. Then, and not till then, will the government of England suggest, terms of oeoee''' and grant everything demanded. Is it. a misfortune, for the men of Ulster that their religion, unlike that 0 [ their enemies, does not permit them to abolish the ten commandments at will? I. am, etc., ri nvw CHAS. 11. MACKAI. Lower Moutere, Deo. Bth, 1921.