THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1921.
Ireland Becomes-
uFree State" By
Final Agreement
Momfntout Document Is Ac
efpted by British and Sinn
Frin After Break Ap
pcared Certain.
, fraatlnaMl from rf OnJ .
cviit in the history of Anglo-Irish
rdtion, . '
While die tRrerment must still bt
submitted to the Uail l ireann and
the British Parliament for ratifica
tion, there wis a disposition in all
quarte ri in Lotidnn 1 to re gird, the
ouUook as of the brightest
1 1 May Call Parliament,,"
Should the Dail Eircann agree to
the document and a disagreement is
not looked for, at it meets satisfac.-'
torily the points raised by the Sinn
l"ein it will be embodied in a hill
and submitted to the British Parlia
ment,' which is expected to be sailed
in special session to consider it. The
consept of Ulster is not required to
make the new Irish agreement 'ef
fective. -It is Riven the option of
withdrawal in a.- month, reverting
then to its present satus within ler-!
ritory to he decided by a boundary,
commission. ' '
The agreement was signed for the
government by l'rime Minister.
I Joy 8 George. Austen Chamberlain
)xfd Birkenhead and Winston
Spencer Churchill, and for the Sinn
Fein :by Arthur Griffith, Michael
Collins and Robert C. Barton..
The condition previously insisted
upoif that there must be free trade
between England and Ireland is
said to have been dropped by the
Rovernmcnt and Ireland is given
freedpm retrardirrsMarirTs. . Tbc-dcl-egates
of 'the- pail .EJreatin'. .how
ever, explained that it would be' ti
Ireland's advantage to have free
trade-between (he two' island-and
that it would adopt this voluntarily.
Premier Sir James Craig of Ulster
lias before him the Irish peace set
tlement proposals which he an
nounced last week he must receive by
today or declare the peace parleys at
an end. ."'..-f ' ;
An agreement was reached by-the
British cabinet '"members and" Sinn
Fein delegates at ar early; hour, this
morning and a copy of the modified
terms was immeediately dispatched
to Sir James by special messenger.
The agreement, after a session which
lasted more than three hours, came
unexpectedly following reports yes
terday that the negotiations had defi
nitely broken down.
In Harmony With Principles.
Dublin, De 6. The. Freeman's
Journal, commenting oa the agree
ment reached.-iiiklLcindon, says that
Ireland needs no assurance that the
peace terms are in harmony with the
principles for which it stands. Ire
land was aware front the first, the
newspaper says, that these principles
contained no menace to the real in
terests of Great Britain and that this
fact appears at last to be clear to the
British statesmen, ''.'. ' ."' f
Ireland, it adds, looks to Premier
Lloyd George and his colleagues
to insure that the opposition of a
"fanatical minority", shall no. longer
prevent peace? with honor: -
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" Abandons Trip to U. S.
'London, Dec. 6. (By A. P.)
Prime Minister Lloyd George has
abandoned his intention to visit
Washington owning to the early
meeting of Parliament to act on the
Irish settlement, it was stated this
afternoon. . ,r V
Belfast, 'l5ic,-'6.-($y-'A. . P.')
Official ''"circles ';tbIaysh-Qwed a dis
position to' reserve comment on" the
jieported Irisftagreerrtegtr .until.) the
terms became knowft Political
leaders, however, are said to regard
any compromise between the Brit-;
ish'and Sinn Fein delegates as de
feat for Ulster.
1CUH6ns'a1:is8Ue;1V.- r-"
The big question at issue between
the.1 British government and the rep
resentatives of the Irish republican
padiament have been: '..;; -4
Shalt Ireland-: become entirely in-v
t dependent or if it remain within the
'British empire, shall there be two
separate governments in Ireland, -one
for Ulstery'ifrdV-cine for the rest of
the''countrv?
Prime 'Minister Lloyd . George1 has
refused , :to consider any proposal
whifch would put Ireland 'outside' the
empire. ; ' "i ".
The Sinn Feiners refused, to admit
that Ireland should be -split in -two
parts, v .;
Ulster refused to' injlte in ope-par-..
liament with the Sinn Feiners. It
has i organized ' a parliament of its
own under the Government of Ire
land i act
The Sinn Feiners refused to set up
a parliament fpr-the south cf Ire
Anlde
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land, at proposed In that act. They
adhered to their own Irish parlia
ment, called the Dail Eireann, which
they hud let up independently at the
governing body of the Irih repub
lic, Kinf George Intervenes.
That was the lituation when the
truce began last July, after King
George had made a conciliatory
speech at the opening of the new
parliament in Ulster.
The purpose of the negotiations
now in progress, as denned by Lloyd
George and accepted by the Sinn
Fein repreaentativei is '"to ascertain
how the association of Ireland with
the community of nations known as
the British empire may be best rec
onciled . with .Irish national aspira
tions."' .-' ' -.
The, conference began in July.
Both aides have at times entertained
higher hopes of a final and sitisfic-,
tory settlement probably than at any
time aince the Irish question became
a thorn in the aide of the British
empire, but there have been aeveral
crises when the negotiations teemed
doomed to failure.
The first of these occurred wheri
Lloyd George offered to de Valera at
consultation in , London a form of
self-government in lreland something
like that prevailing in the British
dominions. $The DaH Eircann utterly
rejected this proposal on the ground
that it did not afford even genuine
dominion' rules. . For: a - time it
teemed that a deadlock had been
reached. ' .
r" ' Agree on Differences.
:; Lloyd . George endeavored to re
sume negotiations but this move
seemed likely- to be balked by de
Valera's insistence that me Irish
delegates to such a conference must
be accepted as having derived their
authority from a free and indepen
dent Ireland. The British premier
refused., to concede that point as, he
said,, it would constitute a recognw
tion at the very outset of Ireland's
claims for separation from the
British empire, '.
This obstacle was overcome by fit
two parties agreeing; upon Lloyd
George's ' formula that th'e purpose
of the conference should be to ascertain-how
Ireland's association with
the empire might be best recon
ciled with Ireland's national aspira
tions. Under that formula, meetings have
been in progress since early Octobet
.The proceedings have been secret.
It has been reported, however, tint
British representatives submitted a
plan to give Ireland a status of "as
sociation" with the empire and to al
low her an almost complete measure
of self-government to be exercised
by separate parliaments in Ulster and
south Ireland, respectively, and by a
central council jointly chosen.
This brought Ulster again into the
negotiations and- compelled Premier
Lloyd George to defer his trip to the
Washington conference on limita
tion of armament so that he could
devote his time to an effort to over
come Ulster's hesitation or objection
to' co-operate with "the $otithvor Ire
land in any form of common govern
ment. . .; '. r -
"The general " understanding was
that the Sinri Fein delegates insisted
that there must be no partition of
Ireland into the north and south,
with different forms of government
and different relations to the empire.
' i'To reconcile these conflicting view
points, Lloyd ' George- invited Sir
James Craig, the Ulster premier, to
come to London in the first week in
November to talk things over. The
situation , was so. delicate that1-Sir
Jam,es, de'sired the support and advice
of 'other 'Ulster leaders and finally all
the members of the Ulster cabinet
wertf called to London. Unionist
opinion in England has been stead
fastly against any "coercion of Ul
ster." It was generally conceded
that pne of, the most difficult stages
of the negotiations had-been reached.
' ; V Pope Is Pleased.
Washington, Dec. 6. (By A. P.)
Pope , Benedict, a . message from
Rome today said, expressed great
. satisfaction oti learning that an agree
ment had been reached bv the Brit
ish and Sinn Fein delegates affording
a .v basis-.lor.-the settlement,, of the
Irish question. "
v, - -Provisional Government. r
While the agreement has been
sent to Sir James Craig, the Ulster
premier, an unfavorable decision
from him will not - prevent the
..scheme .ftom.. maturinc . -. . .
Provisional government will be;
formed in southern Ireland while
the Bntishii Parliament' is consider
ing. the .agreement.;..' ":. v,.. ....
On the question of allegiance a
form of .words was found vhich sat
isfied, both the government iand the
Sinn 'i. Fein. - The" : recognition of
h Ireland as : an independent state is
saia.to De ciear. . - rv,
' 'The principle at last adopted by
tne government is said to 'have been
that , of trusting Ireland fully and
giving, it full 7 power of" decision
without -hampering it by conditions:
Allegiance to Empire.
Definite promise of allegiance
to the empire by the Sinn Fein is
provided in. the Irish rpeace terms,
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the Central Newt ittlet. The agree
ment, it says, is satisfactory to the
king in that it involves Ireland's as
sociation with the empire, 1
The Irish agreement reached by
the Britikh and Sinn Fein delegate
today binds both sides to recom
mend It to their parliaments. It it
a formal, detailed and conclusive
document and its terms prevent the
necessity for further negotiations,
State Farm Aid Body
Organized in Omaha
(0ntlau4 FYuin Ti On.) '
put Nebraska at the top of the list
for future loans, Congressman Jef
feris announced, for the reason that
the bankers were slow in appreciat
ing the possibilities of the. govern
ment agency. He praised the move
ment to enable the holding of sur
plus products from the market, say
ing, "You've got to get the real value
out of the sale of farm products be
fore any big improvement can come
to business conditions."
He emphasized also the necessity
for lower freight rates and urged
support of the St. Lawrence water
way as one way of bringing cheap
er transportation. . He ; warned
against the efforts of the railroads
to compete between the east and
west coast with the Panama canal,
and said that the middlewest should
insist on a new method of estab
lish freight rates, based on a cen
tral point in the interior rather than
on a sea-to-sea haul.
Plenty of Many Available.
N. B. Updike was called upon to
tell the bankers about the corn
belt advisory "board, of which' he is
a member, and which plans to link
the War Finance corporation more
closely with the corn growing sec
tion. "What we have done is not
much, but what we want you bank
ers to do is. .a great deal," he said.
"We want you to fix it so farmers
can borrow money to keen .' their
grain on the farm. The War -Finance
corporation does not think
this country is in such bad shape
as plenty of money , is available.
You can get all the . money, from
Washington that you send in pa
per, for., j. . .. . . ;' .','
"Chattel mortgages are favored.
The kind of corporation you arc
now' forming is very necessary.
Even when the money goes to' take
a loan from'" a "bank, it saves the
farmer, v.ib otherwise.' might have
to be closed out.;-' There is no se
cret about Mr. Meyer he wants to
loan " this money,' ; ' '" ' .
H.-G Nicholson ;of the Packers'
National bank told of the success
ful operation of a similar state
wide loan association in Wyoming,
which he declared had saved the
farmers and cattlemen.
F. W. Thomas, local chairman of
the War Finance corporation, prom
ised that with the help of the bank
ers, $30,000,000 could be brought to
Nebraska before summer. ...mere
have been only two rejections of
all the loans that have been asked,"
he -said.- "No. one leaves our office
with a flat turndown. In the last
week $1,170,000 has been lent in Ne
braska, and this week s total . win
reach $1,500,000., There is no rea
son why the weekly average snouia
not be brought up to $2,000,000. The
amount of help received from the
War Finance corporation Vepends
entirely ton the bankers asking
for it." ' - ' ', ' . " "'
Dairying Is Advocated.
Among the aims of the Nebraska
Agricultural . Finance .corporation,
will be to enable the range to be
stocked, to prevent the shipment of
immature stork, and to .finance live
stock feeding as a way to dispose of
the corn crop.
Tohn C. .Dauehertv of the First
National bank, at Greeley is one
banker' advocating- dairying. He
hopes to finance the.farmers of his
community - with a few cows and
let their cream pay the bills. He
stated that already $432,000 in cash
and anoroved loans had been grant
ed Greeley county' by the War Fi
nance corporation.
The organization papers for the
new state- loan association; were
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Foreign Debt Funding
Bill Meets Senate Snag
Wahiiiaton. Dec. 6. The ' house
foreign debt funding till met In tint
obstacle In the senate today. The
finance committee failed to reach an
agreement .with respect to adoption
of .the commission supervision plan
and after two hours of diicutsion
adjourned until later today.
The first move to carry into effect
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ate finance committee embodying the
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