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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1920," ES Welshman Will Endeavor To Mould the Opinions Of the People of Ireland CIOOVOVVVOVOPPIIPEOPVGOe T is curious to note that in the battle between Britain and Ire- land, if we may call it a battle, the British leader is a Welsh- man, and a rising leader of the Irish is also a Welshman. This is Mr. Ham- ilton Edwards, one of the new pro- . prietors of the Freeman's Journal, of Dublin: " His partner is Mr. Martin Fitzgerald, a retail liquor dealer and long a champion of an independent Ireland, It is not surprising to find Mr. Fitzgerald investing some of his surplus wealth in a paper dedicated to the cause to which he has so long been committed, but it is rather amasing to find Edwards in such com- pany. Hitherto Edwards has been known to such as know hfin at all | a8 a brilliant newspaper man, a pro- tege of the Harmsworths, and more | lately the owner of a racing stable In Ireland. His career has been an in- teresting one so far, according te T. P. O'Connor, who writes about him in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and may in the future be even sen- sational. If he has become an adher- ent to Sinn Fein he will prove one of the most influential of that body, for Ne is one of the best-equipped of newspaper men, and is bound to greatly increase the power of the Freeman's Journal. He was a discovery of George Newnes, the famous publisher who owed his great success largely te his instinct for picking out brilliant subordinates; but George Newnes had had the falling that he was un- able to keep them. As O'Connor says, Newnes was large in big things but small in small things. He lost Arthur Pearson because he would net advance his salary, and Pearson became one of his most formidable rivals. He also lost Edwards because be permitted Harmsworth to tempt him away. Edwards had done good work for Newnes, and he was to do Still 'better work for Harmswerth. He became, in fact, one of the main- stays of the Harmsworth organisa- tio d a shareholder in several of @ publications of the present Lord Northcliffe. Later on, when the chief proprietor wished to re- construet, or to buy out his partners, Edward's "bit," amounted to about a million dollars. Mr. Edwards was then forty-five years old, in his very prime, and bursting with energy, but. being unable to find the particu- lar occupation that he desired, he eventually went to Ireland and set up a racing stable, just like another of Northeliffe's proteges, Mr. Kem- nedy Jones: There he has lived for the past three or four years, and it may be that like others before him, he has become more Irish than the |. Irish. Apparently the old lure of jour- palism has mastered him, but it amazes his friends te find him in the Sin Fein camp, for when he lived in London he was a Tory of the Tories. + He was a member of * fashionable Tory clubs; in dress he was a dandy, and his associations were chiefly with the "ruling classes." There is a pos- sibility, of course, that he would en- deavor through the Journal to win his readers to the old Nationalist views, but in view of the passions and tumult in Ireland to-day this would appear to be a forlorn hope. It would be curious if he were to try the experiment of changing the Journal from a pa of opinion to the sort of paper t Mr. Rdwards knows most about, the sort that bullt up the Harmsworth fortunes and his own. After all, is it any more remarkable to find a Welsh Tory one of the moulders of Irish | opinion than to find an Irishman like Northcliffe one of the great moulders 'of English opinion? Of course, Northeliffe does not belong te the "honest party' as the Jacobites used to call themselves, although he is favorable to some sort of Home Rule . scheme, and his antipathy to Lloyd George and his recent "break" with Sir Edward Carson will probably lead him to take an extremely liberal view of what constitutes Home Rule. Ordinarily a. newspaper proprietor is as cautious 8¥ Why other capitalist with his property and will no more hazard its prosperity for his own liims and personal fancies than would the owner of a manufacturing plant, Northcliffe is in a different position. The great papers with which his name is assotiated, the London Times and the' Daiiy Mail, are his hobbies. If they should be wrecked |. to-morrow, profitable though both of them are, and particularly the Mail, the Northcliffe fortune would con- tinue to grow. He can be very ro- - mantic with them if he choses. The dd. professional journalist like "Tay The career of Tord Northeliffe, to which In some unaccouatable way we seem to have drifted, has been an amazing one. In the past ten years be has perhaps exerted a greater in- @Quence than any other man whe eycling journal, When he started wers the much of it gamble, and indesd some notable British publlishing successes are to be considered as lotteries Pather than newspapers. The owner is really the croupler instead of the sditor. . Their ideal business manager would be a bookmaker. This is not . to deny the keenest kind of ability to men like Newnes, Peamson and || Nofthclilte, who have made great uccesses ! remains pen for anyone who thinks he cam By Sensideradle kind of swath 'Objects to Publicity, ashinyton, April 1.---Princess ja Vasilievna Toubetzkoy, styled most beautiful nurse in the ad, objected to the admiration of vie mep, reporters gnd a curious ube, while performing her duties at Garfield Memorial Hospital. 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