ED.I TED BY ·E OIN MAC . NE.I LL·. Vol. 2.
No. 47 (New Series).
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1915.
PRICE ONE PENNY.
Thousands . of · famili~s . that · The . measure of their success is the Ireland. .amount of importan_ce now attached to we,r e able to enjoy. modest comfort Mr. Redmond'cS pronouncements on any will feel the pinch of poverty and otlier subject. His ' recent Mansion debt. Thousands upon thousands of the House speech might as well never have youth of Irela:nd who would Iiave stayed Herbert Pim has challenged Mr. Redbeen made for all the effect it has pro- . in Ireland a.nd who a.re sorely needed to mond to admit or deny the acc~raby of Whatever Mr. Redrp.ond says in . rebuild the fabric of our national produced . the statement attributed to Mr . Redmond the most en;i.phatiq . oratory, they count sperity, will be driven to emigrate. The by the "New York World " with regard on getting him to say the virtual opposite poor will be made still poorer, and the to "three or · four. men imprisoned ,for by and bye, as in the case of the Party's springs of cha.r ity that have relieved the open Pro~Germa.n declarations." Mr. resolution. At the Mansion House he needs of the very poor will be dried up. Redmond has not met th~ challenge in The hopeful movement for the developdenounced the N orthcli:ffe conscription any way. Mr. Devlin has protested At the very· next· opporment of 'Irish industries will be strangled . conspiracy. agai.-nst these " senseless prosecutions." tunity, Dublin Castle arrests three men Land P urchase is already killed. Town The I_rish Party has passed some resolu~ 'l'enants' Purchase dies unborn. The tion about them, the terms of which may for distributing anti-conscription ·leaflets at a public gathering .in Dublin. .Of work of the Congested Districts Board is be known to - the Government, but are brought to a standstill . Enterprise is concealed from the Irish people. Then course the Qastle had to release the men. choked, and the a.pplication of Irish sav· comes along the '' New York World '' . Even the Defence of-the Realm Act proings to Irish improvem. e nt is terrorised . and publishes an interview in which Mr. vides no law to punish men for opposing Redmond is shown as assuring everybody tlie N orthcliffe conspiracy. ' It now only We are asked to- ruin ourselves so that that the resolution· of his Party and the remains to assure people in America that the Huns may not ruin us. Mr. Dillon protest of Mr. Devlin were so much gas- - the arrests last Sunday were quite proper is prattling like a baby ·about irelan:d blowing to asphixiate the public mind . and that whoever opposes conscription paying ''. her proper share .'' And let ·it According to the interviewer, Mr. Red- may l;>e thankfol to · ¥r . Redmond and be borne in mind that the Home Rule Act contains no remedy-agafost this exmond thinks that the senseless prosecu- his Government for .not being shot. * * tortion, though Mr. Dillon says it is a tions a·ga.inst which his Party protests Mr. WilJiam O'Brien -has recognised better constitution than Grattan's. On by resolution were quite justifiable, and the extraordinary gravity, in ~ national the contrary, the Act increases the power the punishments quite lenient, and that sense, of the new taxation. Those who of the British Parliament to impose taxa:the imprisoned Volunteer~ are in any case . denounce '' factionism '" for the sake of tion on Ireland by reducing the Irish remere ordinary men, of no account excepttheir own faction will not dare to take presentation .in proportion as the British , ing electioi:i times . up the discussion with Mr. O'Brien on Government has reduced the Irish popu• • • this point. They are afraid to open their lation. The Imperial Parliament would Mr. Redmond, when challenged, lips -about it. When I think Mr. O'Brien not dare propose to treat Canada, Aus- • neither admits nor denies the words attri- is wrong, I say so. When I think he is buted to him. He ~ii:oes to the Vic_erei:rnl · lit, I say he lS · right.· He is right this tralia., New· Zealand or South Africa in ~ ng 'the ma.nner proposed for the. t-;reatment of Lodge to be feted by .the Viceroy who · . time. The plain f~ct is that· Ireland 110.;; this n·ation . . replaced Lord .Aberdeen, the Under Sec- no surplus wealth that · can be taxed. • • • retary who - replaced Sii: Jam es Doug- .A.dded faxes can only be exacted so as to Tha.t treatment is to be takeii lying herty, and the elite of the. Curragh · rob the country and depopulate it still down, because the "darkest hour" has Camp . Never before has any man claim- further. Before the new Budget the Go- - come upon English Imperialism. Ireland ing to be an Irish Nationalist leader been vernment was able to extract over ~ must show her willingness to be ruined, found in such surroundings . - But this is million sterling of war . taxes from Ire- in atoneme.n t for the sins of her disloyal the New Er:a, and Mr. Redmond's cause land, and before that increase Ireland ;as past: The guilt of the past, it appears, is triumphah t. · already monstrously overtaxed. Modern was our guilt. The dead who died for * * • - taxation is a fine art,' devi'sed by states- Ireland were criminals. Mr. · -Redmond The . natural concomitant of these manship to deceive the mass of the peo- will a tone for all their misdeeds. His even ts ls that Mr. Redmond's table com- ple . . We cannot see the effects in the repentance is complete. To-day he stands panions l~o~ a.t the Pa.rt! . resolution a;l.!l same vivid way as we can see a body before the holy shrine of Imperialism, Mr . Devhn s protest, wrnk solemnly at weakening as the red blood is drawn from dressed in the white sheet of the "New each other, and renew the "senseless its veins. 'l'he effects are certain never- York World," denouncing as "shriekers prosecutions." How much fu-rther will theless, and every intelliO'ent man who and kickers ''-elegant phra.se, and they succeed in driving l\fr. Redmond does not -want the truth ~mothered can worthy of the situation- the Irishmen into the mud? . tell how this new taxation will operate in who think that, if there is any repentance
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