Saturday, April 4, U1I4
No.9.'
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'ot
section
the
Nationalist tempt --for
British
a thing
another
section
beneath which
by Arms
mere
talk
and
on behalf
leaders
wiil speak
is' past,
Irish nation
along there
of power that' will reo. with the consciousness make their voices of the utmost weight.
that
Act's and
Behind
other
the ballot
the Irish
.,
'. of indig-
wonder,
Parliamentary
army.
And
methods'
abou.t
mere thing
Home Rule, or Else-- _'
I
box is the rifie, must
that
army;
will
it must
be no
army,
.
Tile
but
whose
nice
discrimination
them to" pla~e 'their est evictor's ca·II." hood
of. Ireland
gave
up
*.0
asked
tJ
England
(he
wonder
that
upon
the drili halts
arid- .a
new
or every
in the breast
be no doubt- about
be put 'i? more sign i.cant
as the \:o]u'nteers Trade
is not afraid
back
profiting'
by
of last
which
enemies
of
the
reiterated fact
that
Ireland. sneered ia
as
pointing
tbing of
i whining
that
fCT foreign
i backbone
as
1'1ationality
urplus aid,
cash
constitution and
is take
Perhaps hurled
tell whether credulity
we deserve
in 'believing
and
that
sneersj
and Ulster
achieve jt.i
thai
there
wiiJing
i~ 'another
OLlt_that
UI-
will
that
field
and
was
againstvhc
the mildest
Ulster
sacrifice to make
Home
Volunteers
and
the
to
Rule.
epithet
men' of Ireland
in self-goyernDJElnt,
put made
to make
we could.
win
constitution it,
be decided
or other -force of the Irish is not
a few months,
matter-s-a
a question
of
the
that moral
Volunteess,
Ulster
is
pW\.jSiOIlS matter
by
standing
one
meet
;,ith
Outside
tbe
with
Above
this
there
with
ihey while prevented . . . Iity from dnlling and all,
very
fact
a' Vol-
trammg,
tbe
work
,!-ver}lVhere
must
necessl.ty
hose
in charge 10
reach
ciency. 'but
~'e
are
all
Xot
o nlv
movernet.]
is
of such
operate
of efficiency
with
thoroughly bodies
arm.
For
instance,
men 'in the
amongst
Volunteer
arrillery
the will
to coand
particular
the
discipline
and
arm
in each
are
engineers,
in the
are -'Various
trades
itself.
The
lie singled
of special
N ation must drill, time
for
I' graph nics,
and doctors,
wireless
of
arms
in
all of whom
,
will
-.~
that
chemists, be
able
tele-
mechnto
had
with
in
agree-
of the
sound
bodies
was
of Derry,
that
or i\1r Jehn
!
'in '
E Red.
perception of 1\ a-
a true
every
his -business.
young
Irishman
would
have acquired
I-Ie would
a bicycle
I
work
Indeed',
the
or a shot-
fact
or less proscribed,
added
to
zest
an
at a long-distance" the forbidden appeal
despera:e
was
complete.
as not the
target.
But,
stocking money;
th·e even
reliable,
adversity
crows
and suffering men
f
use in pocket-.
the moral
it was too great,
and 'womanish makes
of co'brs·e,.
providing
for scaring
.
often reg'~rded
to serviceable
lardertt)'r
frgm
FeI}~s:
by "popular'
except,
in \and'ling
was a mean
lost its
country ~tl1e
banned
I
somehow,
the
In' the almost
was turned
have
practice
respect
of
and the possessor quite
gUllS I
end the reaction
efforts
WIIS
gun
\
morning
fru it in this
the
that
should
earlv
of late years,
sometimes
the nucleus
workers,
not
were more
bu,
list
professions
I
from any .those
governing
as he procures
it just
cav-
ranks there
Volunteer
ont to form
corps:
operators,
these
the
centres
duty
etc.,
a view to linking up for Similarly amongst the
civil recruits should
of
action
any other
mend, l':1.P., a parade \~as abanc1on.e~ so .as to give no OppOjjU11lty to tp'feClpltate strife. / ~
sacrifice
ex-mill-
a detailed
i,'- . this:
any
with
fine'specimen
at. f:he request
prejudice
ranks
'men,
where
in de.t,~il,
elsewhere
of that
and
animating
shot-gull.
org(anised
form a full field service
a:
ment, spirit
effi-
as to be able
similar
ef-
of
that when
a nucleus
calibre
exist
a special /point
is to take
upon to refrain
have had a rifle.
alike
_
make
higbest
Comruit.ee
to lead to strife
be relied
tional
no cl~ss
of Volunteers
should the
of forming
tary
Drill and Arm.
no corps
n n-
the order
The Love of Arms.
for their
strength
To. this end the !rish
that
from
also
, gun, or the numbers of other things that also minister to his pleasure or help him in ,
for Ireland.
a corps
fort'
al ry men,
.~
week
upon
Provisional
If we had
and
Efficiency.
It
that
I
disabi-
no personalities,
any district with to make its weight .,.future service.
felt against any English Parliament erfuses to accede. vto its demands.
the
the various
will also be
their
is ten times more potent
by
It
the movement,
remember
j
great
in
be taught
sued
stress
are
to be able to give
must
to lav
support
It is
they
cheer-
by physical
Irishman.
principles
ness
they
patriotic
themis evi-
11a$ received
lwhose
Iish Parliament,
and
movement
thc
~
be
_ whole-hearted
by the the
provoke
punishment.
ranks
men in sympathy
in
denced
may
is a high ideal to achieve, but it is. possible to achieve it, and it is worth achieveing.
commend Irishman
to
unteei- army should make e.ach one more scrupulous to act In J1 as l f i t were the most rigid military system,: governed by the severest regulations, .any breach of would
they
calculate.j
in addition to infantry soldiers, and those in command should make i't their bu si-
who be-
in bullying
The
That
action
and. determination
is necessarily
1
body of Irishmen. As- befitting the digniiy of" the National Army, the recruits,
re-
the wa'i of H;'me Rule. It is England blocks the road, or a section of the Eng-
irisinsuccess
army
I
in Ire-
to lay stress
but,
about.
to discipline
enthusiastically.
Ireland's
for our
w.or~ers, l''1~e~es~Qn~. ~lat ~lPOw~rfUl as Ulster is-, to equipped bully a Isiberal. Government, all Ireland
no
was not prepared
aiJ;Ds in IPreventin.g
"CowaJ'ds'-
prosupine-
ultimately
in
British
able' or
were not empty
wcs
the
operative
trained so'ldiers of .i's humble.st financed them, armed them and which
but. whether
an-y
fal,k, but backed, 'by' a resolution
.them,
Sratue Dook
and
to our
the
the
and
go
Volunteer
so well known
thinking
necessary
in
more
materi-al;
recruit
himself
will
tell that the Horne Rule BiH wi ll be placed upon
fully
to secure
~.rne;;_tne~s
I distinctions
time
any ,better
submit
I help.
we d,es.erve some of the
at bur .helplessness,
with
and
already
I
of the
is no necessity
them.
every
to establish
man
the- right the
be Impres.se~
..
of
pant of Ireland,
antithesis
into
in
practical,
and that its opinions
dril1ect battalions
a-nd
deficient
but
It was 'pointed direct
the easy
make
to be incapable
. sicr,. an insignificant vid-ed the
may
to do , anything
i self-sacrifice.
of the
and
a lesson
conclu cively' to the
ubscrlbing
I_so superficial
uated
moment
by arguanent and '.logic alone what -other was no really Nationalist Our traditional patriotism was nations have bougbt with blood and sacAnyhow it takes 110 prophet to at and' is t i 11 bein z, S11 cered at 'rifice.
i sacrifice
lieve
her
last
for
:~:' Volunteers will Decide.
bitter
Irish
methods
work
that
of
.ail,,; let
-which
there
a poor
ness,
the week,
can-
We sac-
we ~ln§t ta.ke her words
,
lesson
just
Ireland
issue.
·ana if at the
fells ':".: that
It
the a~ms we dropped.
Are We Cowards? is
that
rificed - "unconstitutional" England
terms,
or else--':
.1'0 ·face
is
the question
the mouths. of their
Rule
constitutional..
there
to-day
be our ideal, Let every
endeavour
men
above,
d~-
Raile."
of. '82 put
-on
"lIo),l1e
a sham
Let
Rule or no Home
must
--<:>--
Ireland
recrult,
ranks
cruirs
is burning
it, the issue
Home
I{on.
a new
8',Pi lit
that
an army.
the
it?"
of the Irish
"not
of Free
to
are now
calculated
Let1ben
and' objects
selves -to every which
For Ireland's-Army. such
Eng'
t;pon.
land (hat there
.:
we
Constitution
appeal
are 'titling ;~al1d that
Volunteers
humiliating
Driii,;h
"wi lIed .: us to
termination
From -the Outpost
"Js it for this
efficient;
any'
\
of .he
~
sen-ices at the meanNo wonder the man-
the weapons of "98, '48 and '67
and .appealed <IS
I
allowed
aims
movement
force
I
officers
than
~
then, that a blaze '.I has to uphold and has swept over Ire and, No won' f . I And into that army will come every -Irishd er t h at I re'I and says to-dar, "1 force 15 ' . . I man everv man who is of worth to any to be the arbiter, let us appeal to force. ' " f k I d h Ul force; there w111 be no room or wea .ve are a>t east as goo as tester . linizs 10 it no lace for .Volunteers and as honourable as the army ., ,p poltroons. " 1 '0
count
a more
corps
No Bullying.
traditions it . the work It has to do.
naf ion
can
be- Hie
an-d well equipped
be worthy
not contribute
to an army
no' slipshod
of show, no, parade
a real; disciplined which
be
could
land
behind
Party must
there
particular lines if needed. /II1;ked" is scarcely a class in the count.ry:
quota
'feelings
legislation,
N-
empty
of .an armed
con-
has
showed 'us its .paternal
pealedly
made
Government
Ireland
Price, ld.
point
It
of view,
long continued
and
nations
mean.
•
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Geta Rifle. It W0.5 a point of'view that retarded the initiation of the Volunteer movement, and there tare not many hold'; ng it in the national ranks. Pending the time when. our army will be equipped with a standard. rifle, it should be the a.im of every recruit, to get one of his own. .There are numbers of good makes on ·.he'market quite up to the service rifle, and, with ordinary practice, anyone wijJ. . make good shooting. "Sell your shirt and bnv a r i_fie" should be the motto.
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