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EDITED BY EOIN MAC NEILL. Vol. 2.
No. 36
lSATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1915.
(New Series).
Price C ne Penny.
The letter came to me in an envelope bearing faith. " So Mr. Birrell, in good faith, certifies a County Cork postmark. They have now my disloyalty, and several of his heads of once more written to me from an address in departments in [relarid have denouriced me by JJdfast, and the postmark .this time is Corta- aame to their suLurdi nales . What matter, then, hook, in Couuty Donega l. The re is ·ornctbiug if I bad been in recei1 l of Go1·ernment fo1·ours Mr. T . .P. O;Connor writes: "By England mysterious in the Belfast postal aua11gemcnls, some years ago? I mean, of course, all the British Isles which L>ut let it pass . "Two Irish Volunteers " now * * she symbolizes at this moment." This· tit-bit, inform me that they " are both hindered by the The Party organs llhich are so anxiutrs lo like Lord Mayor Gallagher's "Nation," is a sample of the Imperialist method of inocula- respecti¥e considerations of sex and hea lth from make out tbat I am discredited thruugh ha1'ing tion carried on under the Sharp Curve policy. joiniug the Volunteers "-thi s in reply to my held emvloyment by Government favour are It is marked, "Special to R €ynold's" and inquiry what company they belonged .to. They well· aware that Mr. Joh11 Redmond Ut;gan bi s "Copyright in Great Britain and the United supply n~tnies and an add1ess in Bel.fa t thi s after-school career in an employment which be States of America," so it can be p ublished in time, but they ·till seem to be uncertain about . owed· to Government patronage. ] f it is their Ireland without paying for it. The "Freeman" themselves, for their initials, ai: first written, view, it is not mine , that the fact is a discredit might print it, where it woulLl have a chance have UCCll _ co1~1pktcl y eraseu, and the iuitiab and a disl1ualiflcation for Mr. Redmond. The ".P. and D. " written over th~· erastrre. There attack on me is a specimen of their hones ty . of Lieing read--0n a placard. , is really no . reason why any . Irish Volunteers, I have neve r held an/ appointment by Gov~rn * * or anybody fri~n dl y to the Irish Vol untee rs, ment favour or by Government patronage or lZt;cently I ·p-r inted Lon.I Lansdownc's foreshould make any l;L[ggermugger a ~'Lrt , writing through any influence exercised directly or incast of the new taxation, indicating a pe rdirectly with Government on my liebalf. As to me. manent increase of £1 2,000,000 a year, nearly ·X· ·X· a ·tude11t in St. Malacb/s College, Belfast, I a fuurth to Lie .assessed on alcohol products. Their lirsl le llt: r enc losed a cutting from. the ·earned such Jistinctions as in these more The London " Times" is not satisfied with " l rish News " of Belfast, J enouncin:g,_ me t© fortunate days would have ass ured for me an Lord Lansdown<s figures, and, under the Jri sh people inScotlartd . Tbe "[rish News." opportunit y of successful advancement. In my heading, "A Grave Warning,'' has set forth an quoted a per:;oual attack on mt; from: a twentieth year, .those. who had the direction of estimated increase .near! y three times the in" l<'reeman·s J ournal " publication, which; , [ my education infornied me . definitely that the crease fore ·hadowed by the landlord of the u;:iderstand, has since then received orders lo Lime. had come: .when I must f.oregu the advantfour hundred unredeemed · holdings in Mr. behave itself. The gist of the attack was that ages of college and university, and begin to John P. Boland' constituency. According to I bad former] y Lee n in lhe serv ice of the earn my fo·eliho()d , and the matrner was as the "Times' " specialist, the future permane11t British Govenu.nent. To this my correspondents plainly shown to me. I was d.irected to pre · taxation of Great Britain and Ireland will in the" Hi b<rh C.o urt invite me to reply in the "Irish Volunteer," lJare myself foi a derkshi1> ,. amount to about £ 400,000,.000 a · year. The stating whether or not the accusation is true . of J ustic;:e ." total revenue ten years ago was about *·. ". I am not exactly a stranger to Belfast, and * * £160,000,000, and twenty years ago about I obtained that clerkship by open comvetithe re are thousands·.in that city who could find £100,000,000. What about "Ireland's out all about my employment since I wa · a tive examination, n9t by favour or influence share?" Our Imperial Unionists and Imperial choolboy in Belfast by asking their neighwurs or patronage or nomination. I was a clerk in Home Rulers have formed a Coalition of the Four Courts . for twenty-two years. The about it. si lence on this subject. Perhaps it is "bad .Party organ suggests that I got a sala·ry for faith on our part " to issue any "grave warndoing next to nothing. This may be true of What Mr. Devlin·s org~in in J)elfast and ing " to Ireland . Two or three years ago there the mumerous Party journalists who have were numerous eloquent champions of Ireland's Mr. Redmond's organ in Dublin wanted to obtained legaL.jobs by favour of the. Liberal financial rights. Among them were Mr. E. A. ccmvey was that I had spent a huge part of G01·crn :nent. In my case, it is a lie. · No firm Aston, Mr. John J. Horgan, and Professor my . life living on the favour of the British Suppose .it to . be true, what of solicitors that had business in the Accountant Kettle. Until the war came, the "Irish D aily Government. then? I am not now in favour with that holy General's Office from 1887 to r909 could be Independent" r:osed as the fearless exponent induced to say that I_ was found ·slack or care~. of Ireland's financial interests. The war has and righteous power. I hold a cer-tificate of less .o r inefficient in the service of the p u~li c ; increased, not diminished, the danger to Ire- disloyaity from the loyal . pledge-keeper, Mi-. : During those. years I advanced. my knowledge land from the imposition of Imperial burdens Birrell, who accepted the . surpoi:t of .ML of . the Irish . Nation; _its language and its of taxation, but the chief recent anxiety of the Devlin and the Belfast Home Rulers· on terms· l:Ji~tory ' · and . for . a p.u_rp.ber of years. I . served now on the Statute Book. with King GeoFge's " Independent" · has been to induce Irish the Gaelic .League a~ ~ecret~ry an.cl edi_tor :with: farmers to ·w ithdraw "£z5,ooo,ooo and much signature in witness. ' The Belfast-' H ome oµt a_ penny. qf rerp.uneration. I was hagpy more" ·from . the Irish banks and invest it in Rulers were told that Home Rule would be in operat1~1: in ~914. and in. Beifast . W~ _~re now in that work, and i.ts success was an abundant the Empire. far .an· in ' 1915; and Mr: Devlin's leader. has r~~v~cl, : a· r~warc_l ~~ha,~ced in . th<.<~e'. d~y-s - b; * * * the knowledge that the Gaelic League bas "Two· Irish -Volunteers" wrote· to me a few just .t old his Belfast supporters that H ome proved itself the backbone of the growi11g· rally weeks ·ago, but on1itted to give na.mes and Rule in Belfast wo uld be coercion, .:111d th;it for a free Ireland. ~uirl resses, beyond that they lived in Belfast. to insist on Home .Rul.e in 191-5 -)Vould be" bad
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