UNHAPPY IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17491, 8 June 1920, Page 7

UNHAPPY IRELAND.

Sir,—" These well-meaning statesmen" —Aberdeen and Birrell, wrote your London correspondent, " were going to rreate an Arcadia, but they have created an inferno." Just one week before your correspondent wrote the above, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, addressing the grand jury, Cork Assizes, on March 23 this year, ca. ; d, from the Bench:— "Historically, the divorce of so many of the Irish people from active cooperation with the Government dated, as did the reign of violence itself, to that black day in Irish history, six or seven years ago, when mob law was allowed to prevail and the doctrine of resistance to the law of the land by physical force was preached, not alone with impunity, but with success. He did not say that that doctrine had not been preached before, that; but this was the first time when it was openly preached without rebuke or punishment." Ye.'., those who had wt aside the beneficent labours of halfa-ceiitury. and who had subsequently set the Maine, on fire, are now controlling and directing 'he forres '.( the frown to extinguish it. The i racedy of it all with its wide world consequences is appalling and distressing. JUSTTTU.