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'S at.urday. ,Octobel" 24, 1914
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Till Belgiam (?) is Free
many adjective.t! individuals who say, that we have no use Iz r ::'Iilitia ]3allot Acts "If you b elieve in the Empire go and in Irel and ,and that the mood 0:1 tb.e Irish fight for i t ," and who b elieve that the people, w~ne sweetly pacific regarding ~asily . be abroad, mig'H more Unioni sts should be the first to follow the events leaders to the firing line, So the recruit- arom;ed at home. in!5 returns show that all ireland, at least composed of afl K ationalist Irelaud, is "cr anks" and all the other crushing and v<ithering words ~hat should easily beat a Germany Army Corps. ~t i s sad, but at the risk of hear ing t,he same thi ng every ,1\ ow :.t i .. up to '(be n;;,'ti6n t o get back . day, for; tl,j.e n~",t t'¥-o 'years, Ireland refUSed . to , I0'110'," the recmiting ribbons,~ and to wo~k , We bave had s'o h:e sc a'f hir:g let,ters fr~!TI people ,cornplai'~ing of b 3d I~-I , ·our !~ad~~" lead" a <na!io.n' of <;r:mks. ; ~ lian .rifles l?Eing ho.'ndcd out to the \'ol~nteers. 'Vel,!, a bad It:t:i."ln "ific would, be vcry bad i'r; 'the ' han¢ ~ ,of '3. . Vo1u,ntcer when it would nct be better tb~n a [pod Iri:;h ' resc,lut:oll . And rifles ;J.1;~; mere, in o,der t!, ~ I" ' t nc~ . "~so ~\.v :~ ., a:-c pro~n T ....SO U.;'OTI.:i Jll~;
RIfles and Resolutions.
,\Vhile IreJan.d is ri s'ng out of her long martyrdom of years and the strong soul of the nation has again armed ,her £01' the last .struggle for Freedom; hundreds of thous~nds of Volunteers inwardly vow th:\t never will th ey ,relinquish the s trugg~ e "till Irel and is free ." It has been the hope of countless gencmtions of Irishmen that they might not cease to battle " ti ll
Irelo.n d is free ," Irish pail'iots 3.nd Irish martyrs through s-even hundred years faced t!~e b~l)et and the rope and the sword th ..t IrehUld nright be free ., From gal10,w5 and from dll'!.geon rose the pr3ycr for Ireland's freedom, and bo.ttlefield and oonvict ship gave back the echo or the s,: une hope and the S3.111e prayer. That Ireland might be frw w ~s the all-compeiiing desirer; th ..{ le~ Tone to m~rtydom, that gressing. ,\{j must adm1ih:; t we 'do not sanqti~ed young Emmet's death, another ,l,·hile Ireland has kno\v' v,,'hy Itali3.il rifle::; \".~\~re procured, ncr Sh01.l1der Yo1un tari ly the burt:-ens so cue- why modern rifles were not pJ;~cu rcd, but victim to Englisn " ,justice," th~t pulsed . . , a ga~-pl'12e < ' 'f ! ' b etter th fully got tog ether by another nation , it is a ~' w.e 5ala Tl, e:s .:m throug.1;:t th ousands of p:ltriotic hearts in quite possible that .some 'a ttempt may be the' gas only. And it '.va qnite D; feQt 'for '48 an d '61, and that made sweet the suLarkin and sa.crifice of All en, o made t o make h er do it involuntQrily. The the pa:rtie~ who procured the r ifles of this preme demand for "Irish Brig::t'.d es" and the patte:).1 to get so far alor,g the ro:?',d tp O'Er·en . :Xone of the sacrifi ces were vaiD.
The Militia Ballot Act
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Some p eople are losing their t empers with the Vol1!l1tee.rs. From onc recr~iling speech we pick the following choice ex· pr·essions: "Cranks," "factionists," "mis· dlief-makers," •. contemptible," " un· known," ,v1th all the variations that such a v ocabulary can e xp ress when it gets working in hannooy ',:ith tl;Ie more reput. able part of the King's. English. It is all applied to people who won' t r ecr uit, who do nJt believe in joining the Scottish Bor-. derers at the front, hut who do believe that Ireland has quite enough for her sons t o do· witQou,t sending them to' get shot abroad , Of course the same terms :He 'now appJied to the BOers, who a month ago were held up to Ireland for emulation as a forgiving and a worthy ,people, But as the Doers seem to l;,e not at all too, facile in changing t heir politico.l beliefs, they are now only cranky' like
preaching of recruiting paved the _way unwittingly, we believe , for. tl;1e :i\filitia B3-1. lot lAct. As we pointed out before, whether this Act W0111d be enforced in Ireland or n ot depended upon' the temper of the Iri sh people and the arms tha·t the Iri sh people possess even more than on England's need for recmit, . And whil e the
practicality. But there ' are oLi}e:i rifles in The tnlS t th ey preserved 2n d handed on the co~ntry:"""'the' Howth rifleS', Lee En - is living still, guarded by th e ' Volunteers fields, and Martinis, the rines procured b,Y whose only iqeal 'is the same high one that the origInal Pro,isional Committee taking Ir~land maY .be free . Knowin~ <11.1 t hese ,sel':'l,.jf::l" ammunition, and 1he task now I thmgs as we lmow them, b elievmg m them is to learn how to usc thenr to the best as pasS'ionate1y as th e Irish people hQve adva,ntage. always held their n ation3-l beliefs, a printer's error m u st have been re,sponsible for
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stu pefac:ion of the country that foJlowed the appeals for recruits was taken for ac· quiescence in the desire to share in Eng -
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The Practical Side
the report that ~'1\1; T P: O ' Connor, M.P. , adt;!ressed the meeting). wh ich vowed never to sheath the sword unt il Belgium (?) is free ."
the n ecessary steps shoul d be take.n to meet a not too remote contingency. 'Vi th Th e time for parade work is o\' er ' and this view the n ecessary forms were prin- the real bus;ness of the "olu nteer should ted and the necessary arr angements made ,bo to get thoroughly trained' in r ea! operaf or the distribution of the preliminary in- tions of warfare. Less parade (;rill and quiry forms throughout the country. From mo;-e extended order ~nd skirmishing ,Cerk to Beliast machin ed r esol utions were should be the desire of' every unit in the publish ed approving of other people re- movement wbo be!ie\'es in the j:future of c ruiting_ until it seemed as if ~he whole the Voiunteers and the 'future ' of Ireland. manhood of Ire1 and was simply pining . Abo\,'e all , rifle pradice ' is essential; e very away for an opportu nity of following the' spare momen'! shoula be utilised t o attain ,scottish Borderers t o France. But when proficiency with thls arm . At the m o. r esolutions did not -cajole the r ecruit s ment the soldiers in t he E~ropean s hambles s terner; measures were d eemed necessary have found that the bayonet is a " ery serif, Ireland wer~ to be successfully genuded viceable w€':J.·pon, and in th e 'official r eof, men' 'while English factories were kept ports there h as been more t han ·one in workiRg ove rtime -to. ,capture GermaI). stance 'g i\'en of troops ' purposely neglectt,rade . Branc.hes of the same organisation:s ing to 'u se the rifle 5; .that the enemy seemed to be iletermined ,that the members. might get int o closer prox imity to the from the next - parish should go with Kit- I steel. If the fixed bayonet is a good weachener's -Brigade, until someone, forget- pon, a pike is n1!lJ.1Y ti nles better, and ,ting the meaning of res·olution bet:ho1.fght attached to e,'ery Yolunteer corps there that such a resolution p:light apply to him- should be a picked body of pikemen . Arms self, 50 a stony-hearted stare w'as all the are the primar;,,' necessity, and every Volrecruiting sergeant got, and that bubble unteer In Irelan d should procure arms at was , burst. And in the bursting it proved on ce .
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' If we had it more copiolls vocabulary '" of the terms th at rival politicians apply to each other we would use them on too . ardent love rs of "The Irish Volunteer." It is all very weI! to be interested in the paper, but it is simp ly in decent haste t o open the letters b efore they reach us, and, besides, the E.eople who open ' them, we 'are sure, do not get a quite s-ltisf'lctory pe=n sal of the forthcoming number. In the course of two weeks. we have had as many ,d ozen ' letters torn open, and if things go on like this we can only offer a sub -editor to th e people r.esponsib1e so as to decipher the matter for th em with the least incon venience and d elay.
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