No.
Vol. 1.
Saturday,
36
October.
10. 1914
Price, ld.
and thnt it was maintained by methods .'is side are men whose first allegianc.e was discreditable, And of its blood-guiltiness due to other organisations, organisations we were assured that Ireland was clear. whose heads were accustomed to rneer, There are troubled. times before u 'We do not want to-day to change that. at physical foroe. "-,th a.. fine spirit of We have nothing to gain and everything to loyalty ~o their organisations they came in times when we will sec clcar:y many-things lose by embarking on foreign quarrels, to the Volunteer movement at the bidding that are obscured to-day, Y'."hen we, will and no- matter how worthy the cause, of .their leaders, and against tbeir own see the policy of our enemies more clearlYi beliefs did much to equip themselves with and .again have ex am ples of trust misIreland cannot spare a single man 짜짜 the weapon of force-s-the rifle. They, too, placed. But we must he ready for e~eryhave an ideal, and undoubtedly .a useful thing that comes. Our policy must be: one, and if the pursuit of it carries them one of warchful readiness, cur trust Ireback from the rifle range or 'the drill hall larrd alone. Every man in the organisato the debating room they have something tion must arm .and arm quickly, no matto achieve there teo. They will follow out ter what the - difficulties in the W':ly. Act their own course with an enthusiasm and on it yourself, pre_ach it to your friend, a steadiness that could never be expected SpEd:;.1 regulations have been issued to of them in the ranks of Ireland armed men. stir the councrys son! with the watchword, "Get a rifle." "-e wou.d like to help recruiting in 짜 Ireland, and only the SQ!Ile of the late corners, many of them, simple minded, will believe that Engl.nnd perhaps, 1111!St have grown up to love the see a' few pikes in every Volunteer- corps also. They are not so out of elate as some has not ~'Jr ejtb e r "po lit ical or economic rifle, to ~ake' pride in t.he physical display people would have us believe, and a corps reasons a desire to undutly deplete the of power, to ]Y., -(':ll1SC;OUS of the thrill that so armed would take a considerable force ]'\0 matter how population of Ireland. a weapon devoted to liberty gives the ,I to suppress. hardly the continental struggle goes ~:s b-earer, and will keep on drilling o nd severity would not explain the army regu- training, and if they still retain their loyLations for Irelnnd in comparison with- alty to the old organisations of the debatthose for Eng:and, Scotland, and 'Wales. ing hall their leaders there \"i11 have to If the Army were .i n such dire need of men see to it that the fullest cpportunities are as to reduce the height.. of Irish recruits provided for the military tastes of the and send to the front l-aw levies of Irish units. A friendly rivalry will soon grow. soldiers with practically no training, what up between two bodies of Volunteers in lYe are feeling happy of late. A numis the explanation of the thousands of Ireland, nay, three bodies, for Ulster is trained soldiers in Dublin and elsewhere? still Ireland, and, like Liberal, Tory, and ber of filthr Iitt lc ]::-;;0 'rag~ are calling on the Government to Slllji1':~SS US for Why is it that over 10,000 soldiers are kept Labour, or Hight, Left and Centre, they being seditious. As the orgnns iu question in Ireland notwithstanding -;\,1r. Redmond's will all remember in the hour of need that have always been noted for their virulpromise that the Volunteers would defend they are Ireland's first. From any party ently anti-Irish policy, we feel saIe in the Ule shores of Ireland. of Volunteers in Ireland none will go to matter. If we had fonnd favour with them the Iront, we would be compelled to examine our conscience.
Get a Gun.
No Soldiers Wanted.
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" Out of Evil. "
The crisis which the Volunteer movement has just gone through will do good. A clear issue is now before every unit of the movement, which no amount of verbal tdickery can obscure. lYe have got back to the old definition of K ationality and loyalty, and every Volunteer will ask himself "Do I stand for Ireland or for the British Empir a >" "Do I stand for the principles of Tone, Emmet, Mitchel, Or for the principles of those who would un i;e us with England ?" It is a plain question ~nd the traditional Xaticnality of ireland will provide the answer. .]'\0 amount of sill:' talk about small nationa lities needing our help. can modify which is as clear :~_eda'yPOS,~~onit bas ever been ln our historv ; it is simply-On -,,-h;ch side+-Ir cland or ),ngland? Some mea, who have re-cast their ideals and now preach of the gre-it British Empire told us a few months ago that that Empire had been 1)uilt up by methods that a civi iiscd nation would never countenance,
A Good Conscience.
No Reason to Quarrel. No. Marking Time. There is rio use in bitterness for what has' taken place. ] t is still a q L1 escion of ideals nnd policies, and saying harsh things will not change either the one or the other. There is room for regret certainly that the Volunteer movement w~s nee permitted to develop along its original lines, and then a part altogether from any political
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sation it would have reflected and followed the will Q: the nation, But good has been the resuk., The men who started the movement i=.1 city, town, and v il lage and started it d2spi te coldness, opposition and r idicu le 'will keep Oil, will drill and .a rrn for Ireland, and Ireland only, with the steady and resolute purposes which charac. t aris ad them from the first. 'They have confidence in themselves, confidence in their own manhood, in their own strength, and trust in the integrity of their fellows. Ahead or th e:n is t11.3 goal of an Irish ~~a~io!J. Xo power on e-irth can prevent the-n achieving that gJ~l. On' the other
Real Volunteers.
There must be no marking time. Don't Politics like adversity makes strange, wait for something to happen. Drill and bed-fellows, and some of the Gentlemen drill 'and dr ii l, and something will hap- who tried to "jump" the YoJunteer movepen. It is the clear ducy of e\'ery man ment a few weeks ago 11 aye now turned in the movement now to show the stuff their attention U10re devotedly to the. poli. of which he is m ade. All goes well with tical machine. ,\Ye notice in the Press fori the \\olunteers, and the same ?\ aticnal the last few days dozens of D_L's on the spirit that bro ugh: them into being will p1atfo=s...welcoming Irish 5L'1"s, while 811 bring them to maturity and to the fulfill- month .ago these same 1f.1"5 were suping of their pE~pose. Two :years ago the posed to represent catt le-mairners and man who spoke of rifles' in the hands of moonlighters.. Their welcome to the. Irish Irishmen would he regarded as a lunatic members is merely a pretext to get back or worse, To-day everv Ir1~711n.an who :is into the Volunteer movement to capture rere~ny a man h as got, or is about 10 get, cruits. _ Xot one of them h3S abated one a rifle to sen-e Ir-eland. The military spi- iota the Unionist ideals which h3S' kept rit is ineradicable in the Irish people, and Ireland tied to England fcc centuries, and much as it h25 found e::pression and grown but that they feel that there 'are good fightl during the Iast ye,:;!' it will grow mcre i n in:;; men in Ireland to he c::'pmred by a future. 'Ye arc winning, \ViO!ling, win- little wheedling they woulr] be as conning in men and 111or:11e and the end i5! tempt.roue as in the past of the l~-:~!"C Irish. certain. :,1(.':I1\\'hile to ~'.-cry \-OIUl:teer-! Be prepared. .