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metropolitans, “ have ijow got their In his speech on Sunday Miv John « 'fraits of your industry* and which cause sider that Irish Independence is uude« Week by Week. liberty and are republics.” -If “ ‘ex Dillon pointed out people.of East the enormous sums of rop'npy which are sirable, and that .a return o f a little of - raised from you to be spent? m iuafters ivitlt pediency and compromise ” secured the Mayo the benefits thajrthe benign Em which you have no concern-^this is the root the money plundered from this country J f Ireland is to reap her share of the freedom o f the Czecho-Slovaks, the pire of which he is sop'Oud had shower of all your evils.” [is all'the freedom Iieland aspires to, harvest which is 'being: "gathered in to Jugo-Slays, and the Poles, we would ed on them. No wonder Mr. John Dil Although the latter words were uttered they should’have no hesitation in elect day by every other small-nalionality in be ashamed to speak o f them. But as lon is so anxious thathe ^eople^of Ire in 1842 we arc sure the Venerable Arch ing. Mr.: Brady to acquaint the world o f Europe and Asia, the people of Ireland these peoples, who have now got their land should remain a part of his Em deacon, if he were not so enraptured that fact by sending him back to the ■ must first remove the men who, sitting liberty under a republican form of'gov- pire! “ Is there a si&gle man in East over the fact that there*are “ la thou British House o f Commons. ■ r • on the difch at Westminster, tell the •e rumen t, had nothing1 to'do with “ ex Mayo who is: not to-difr richer and more sand landed proprietors ” in the parish * ■ 4* , -'?* - ■'<> 'v wor^d that Ireland is not anxious to pediency and compromise,” we rejoice prosperous than he wtffi inl885?” asked of Kilmovee in place o f thousand In oij^r to provfe‘ to the MetropoJi- leave the British Empire. Every man, at their delivery from oppression.’ Were the apologistfoi* BritiShfrulein Ireland. serfs,” would admit that Ibe-word^ of tahs the absurdity o f the Sinn l ein woman, and child must help Sinn Fein we in Mr. Dillon’s shoes, wenvould be How many o f the.fljfcfd who were in John Blake-Dillon applied to-day• with policy,-J(r. John Muldoon quoted f rom* *to gather in Ireland’s harvest o f Free ashamed to think of liberty, much less, I East' Mayo in 1885 vm .there now ? we even more force than tb^y did in.j^is one of the leaflets circulated by the Bri- * dom. Finanoii>hj$noral, and material speak about it. might ask; but we dojftt wishto spoil oWn times. In reference to the thious^. tish Government in Ireland!' “ They help is necessary to garner the harvest ♦ . ♦ ♦ / r ‘the picture in which ?fr. Johtr. Dillon, and landed proprietors of whom fhe heard,” said he; “ a gpo.d deal about re- ripened by the blood of generations of Hong before President Wilson pro shows to the world hpwfhippy and pros- j Venerable -Archdeacon spejjiks} it is oT Jftsmg to recognise the authority of.the our jjeople. pounded the doctrine that all peoples perous is the lot o f liis, bid constituents pity he did not say that it was a .policy* British JParliament in Ireland. Every . ’ o ~ Or - o —even the Germans, whom Mr. John to-day. Not since-vjprd French* of of “ expediency and compromise” i [man who handfed in a nomina tion paper . On Wednesday last a gang of forty Dillon advised eleven hundred of his Ypres depicted for us'iifegreat benefits which brought about the downfall of at the election recognised English au police occupied Sinn Fein headquarters followers to go out each week” and de Ireland has received uiiuer^British-rMe landlordism ! Was the Land War thority.” ^' Wo'would like to remind for two hours, during which tfme they feat in the interests o f the “ Charter of has the "caselor the ErfUire been stated fought ]>y our army and' navy on' the *Mr. MuIdooi^Jhat it is one thing foi>a* ransacked the entire premises in puiv, .Liberty ” on the Statute Book—had in terms niore glowing ifban fBose used floor o f the House ? slave to recogiiise liis chains, and, re suanceof the British Government’s de the righc to choose the form of govern |by if f. Dillon. ^liejj|jre one thinks cognising thTe^j* to make use of every • termination to continue helping the ment unde** which they wished to live, I over Mr. Dillon’s pidtpie the more Oiie For one-thing the -people' of Ireland opporJiiMjjCthujyuresents itself for cast- Sinn Fein movement. Bob Brennan, ^fr. John DiMon proclaimed to the feels inclined to Jfor^\^- him foi*can- owe a debt o f gratitude to the Provjn- ing flit-m off. Itls quite another thing - who- became Director o f Elections in World that Ireland was a separate na celling his original in.l Nation of sweep- cialists— they do not eveil claim to be for a slhye^to hug his chains. Not'alonfe place of Dan McCarthy, who had re tion, and that the people of Ireland | ing “ every vestige oi^English rule ” anxious to get back to Parliament to does Mr. >Muldoon hug his chains, he - placed Sean Milroy, was kidnapped. would never rest content until the in from the fair face, of fi&and. . What get Ireland her Independence. -. All fawns on fhe Government which has Bob Brennan was brought to Glouces vader had been removed, bag and bag the people o f East Mayo think o f the their Oratory is based on the Assump riveted these chains, and crawls at its ' ter Jail on Saturday evening. At the gage, from the fair face of Ireland. ‘^ben^fits ” wluch the ppostle of Fu- tion that Ireland is a part, of Mr. Dil feet. Perhaps the four hundred golden time of going to press James O’ Meara Now,, when the principle he then ex tility^hbs s ecu r edfor-'will surprise lon’s Empire, and that it woffld be folly links in his chains .makes it easier for is Director- of flections. The police pounded is being universally endorsed1, both-lumself and the :Jjto^'ire of which for Irishmen to miss the great oppor him tg»irag them*. looted & large quantity o f election liter he eats hisVown words and declares for he is so proud. * ’ tunities which they assert will be pre The’U.I.L. has issued an election ature from headquarters. •• They 'have “ compromise.” .The casting away of . sented-in aontcu-jLu'iae -the new Coalitionv. o
wreath of bay-Ieaves, and, under a to receive me—even here en6ircled by ifc the great war. This is, indeed, “ un scroll bearing the words “ Who fears these terrors, that hope which first paralleled. ”v Seumas O’Kel ly to speak of .*98?-” pikes, guns, and beckoned me to the perilous sea - on In 1880, when Mr. Dillon entered the wrote these Two Books, which are troll worth WE DON’T swords are profusely displayed. We which J. have been wrecked, still con British Parliament, the revenue esti reading:— would suggest that Mr. Dillon’s ^not- soles, animates, and enraptures me. N o; mated to be contributed by Ireland f6r THE LADY OF DEERPARK—an exception toes, “ Expediency and Compromise” I do not despair of my poor old coun the niaintenance of the British Govern ally good no.vel dealing with Irish life. It and “ Friendly and Conciliatory,” be try—her peace, her liberty, her glory. ment was, to MaiclT 31 of that year, is well turned ont, ana nialtfes a handsome BELIEVE : ' volume. Pripe 5s., by post 5/6. fortlrwith incorporated into the charm For that country I can do no more than £7,280,856, according to the Parlia ing production to which We refer. • Of bid her hope. To lift this island up, to mentary White Paper. For the past WAY8I0ER8—Stories of Connacht. Price IN 8ELLING YOU SOMETHING >2/6, by post 2/10. „ course, Mr. Dillon may be right in his make her a benefactor to humanity in year, to March 31, 1918, it }s returned WHICH WE CANNOT STAND BY. assertion that Wolfe Tone accepted and stead of being, as she is now, the mean at £26,865,000, or nearly four times as based his policy on the presence of est beggar in the world—to restore her much, while the population has been America and Ireland, by Thomas 8. "Cuffo. An excellent historical exposition, reprinted Irishmen in the British House of Com native powers and her ancient consti reduced by one-sixth. “ The Imperiol from “Young Ireland." Prioe 3Jcf., post mons, but we rather doubt it. As a tution—this has been my ambition, and Contribution” has increased from free. matter of fact, we are inclined to think this ambition has been my crime.” £3,226,307 to £13,863,000. Ireland is Sinn Fein Flags—all sizes and prices:, 1/-, that Wolfe Tone would to-day be Meagher, like O’Brien, O’Donoghue. paying ten millions a year more tribute 170, 8 /-, 5/0, and 10/0. according to size. - dubbed a pro-German by the Apostle and McManus, was found guilty, and for the privilege of having Mr. Dillon Badges for Elections—Photo of Candidate, Silk Cut ■ spocial wording, and covered with celluloid, of Futility. Not in the British House like them was sent to Van Dieman’s gummed to a seat at Westminster. supplied to order. Prices on application. of Commons, but in the dock while Land, to expiate a “ crime” which, if While Ireland’s blood has been We hare a stock of Irish Linen Badges CIGARETTES undergoing h » trial for “ pro- Mr. Dillon’s reasoning is correct, he oozing out England has been waxing with tho words “Sinn Fern” printed on Frenohism ” (as Mr. Dillon would pro and his colleagues are committing to** stout and strong under Mr. Dillon’s them; safety pin attachment-. Prioe 1 /- per bably have said, had he lived at the political guardianship at Westmin dozen, j ost free. WILL TAKE SOME BEATING* day. The difference, of course, is that time), Wolfe Tone declared: “ To break the Apostle of Futility is anxious to go ster. Tjbe population of Great Britain •the connection with England . . . and to Westminster to expiate the “ crime ” was 29,710,012 (we quote from the Whelan and Son to assert the. Independence of my for which the Empire of which he is White Paper- No. 105 of 1918). In country—these were my objects.” Not so proud sent the ’48 men to penal 1914sit had risen to 41,707,851 (same 17 Upr. Ormond Quay, Dublin. io for Bid., 10 for 1«|d., 6# for t/t| , much promise of “ Expediency and servitude! authority). That is to say, it increased !M for t/3, 1/t| per oi. Compromise” in these words, we fear; There is very little similarity between by no less than twelve millions, or and yet, were Wolfe Tone alive to-day, Mr. Dillon’s policy of “ expediency and* more than 40 per cent., in 33 years, an Election itis ! the Apostle of Futility imagines that I compromise and the policy enunciated ** unparalleled success.” Sinn Fein wouldrcall him traitor! by Parnell in 1879 when he said: When Mr. Dillon entered the British Keep the Steam Up'- by wearing Badges, “ The man dies, but his memory “ None o£ us, whether in America or in Parliament there was in Ireland one Favours, etc. Speciality i Small Paper Flags P. J. Carroll & Co., Limited lives,” declared Emmet from the dock. Ireland, or wherever we may be, will Irishman to five Englishmen./ There supplied 'to Election -Committees with their Little thought this noble patriot who be satisfied until we have destroyed the is now but one Irishman, to nine Eng ' Candidate’s Photo aud Suitable' Mottoes-^a DUNDALK source of propaganda and of “profit-to Election was about to give up his life for his last link which keeps Ireland bound to lishmen. Take it another way. When Kuuds. Supplied in quantities only. Stock country that his. name would be asso England,” although it is very like the Mr. Dillon entered the British Parlia Flags supplied to the Tradei ciated with the policy of “ expediency policy expounded by Mr. John Dillon ment there were 159 people to the Although driven from home, "Business as I All literary communications should be ■ Usual” is still our motto. We have made a and compromise ’ ’ so much beloved by nine years afterwards when he 'said: square mile in Ireland, while there addressed to the Editor. _ “hit” this sea&on with our the man who ‘ ‘cannot withhold his ad “ I say to you, men of Tipperary, that were 445 to the square mile in Eng All business communications to the miration for the tenacity pf the British we would be untrue to our country, land. Now there are 134 to the square IRISH XMAS CARDS, Manager. Subscription Rates:— 10/8;yearly, 5/4 half- people.” “ WaffiJ only to suffer death, and untrue to those who begot us, if we mile in Ireland and 618 to the square produoed entirely in Ireland. Over 40,000 yearly, 2/8 quarterly, post free, payable in after being adjudged guilty by your rested content until every vestige of j mile in England. While Mr. Dillon already sold. 31 Designs. Wholesale Sample advance. Range, 5 /-. Private.Cards- a Speciality. tribunal, I should bow in silence and English rule was swept from the fair j sat in the English Parliament*Ireland Xmas aud New Year Mottoes (tricolour), 3d., ADVERTISING RATES. meet the fate that awaits me without face of Ireland.” Mr. John Dillon has lost 25 human beings to every post free 4d. Single Insertion ... 0s. Od. per inch/ a m upiur; but the sentence of the law might well claim to be a follower of ] square mile, and England has gained MUSIC. ,0 Insertions ... 5s. 9d. per inch. which delivers my body to the execu Parnell in 1888. But, not alone is h 9 . 173-human beings to every square 13 Insertions ... 5s. Od. per inch. tioner will, through the ministry of the • “Shawl of Galway Grey,” 1/7. 20 Insertions ... 5s. Od. per inch. not to-day a follower of Parnell, he is mile. “ Violin Selection (Irish Airs),” 1/7. 52 Insertions ... 4s. 0d. per inch. law, labour in its own vindication, to not even a follower of himself—when When Mr. Dillon entered the British . “Slievenamon," “ Jackets Green," or any (Larger spaces pro rata.) consign my character to obloquy,” said he was a Nationalist. Parnell was not Parliament that Parliament was taxing other, 1/1. Wholesale to the Trade. Cheques land postal orders should be Emmet, and he asked the Irish people far wrong when he said : “ .JJThe English the people of Ireland £1 8s. 2d. per crossed, and' made payable to “ Nationality,” not to write his epitaph until Iceland Government will sap the best Party head (.White Paper No. 105 of *1918). 6 Har court Street, Dublin. Our business (wholesale end retail) is again should have taken her place among the Ireland could return ,to the House of This year (to March 31, same autho iu full fcwingnt nations of the earth, lest “ prejudice or Commons.” rity) it is £6 2s. 8d. So that the Bri ignorance ” asperse his motives. Mr. “ To Ireland I leave an undying tish Parliament has added nearly £5 The Art Depot Dillon has not 'waited for Ireland to prayer for the absolute freedom and in per head in taxation on the head of NATIONALITY. take -her pla ce^mong the nations of dependence which it was my life am every man, woman and child in Ire 36 Upr. Liffey St., Dublin the earth to inscribe Emmet’s epitaph: bition to obtain for her.” These are land, and they have placed these taxes SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1918. “ Expediency and Compromise." “ I the words used by Michael Davitt in on them by virtue of the presence of wish that my memory and name may his will. Mr. John Dillon says he is a the Irish members and by the very animate those who survive m e/’ said follower of Michael Davitt. Do you be votes of Mr. John Dillon and his asso The Kiss of Judas. Emmet. Mr. J&hn Dillon has shown lieve him ? ciates. t^is. genetu^on-nf^ Irishmen .how the To sum up the Party, record since The Apostle of Futility, we are glad memory and rfame of Emmet animates Mr. Dilloif entered' the' portals of“ SY. to say; knows the reason why tlie Irish the Apostle of Futility. Better were The Party’s Record. Stephen’s we quote Arthur Griffith’s Republican candidates have pledged it for Mr. Dillon’s sake had he given message to East Cavan on the eve of themselves to ignore the Imperial as to Emmet the charity of his silence. his being Kidnapped by the British sembly at • Westminster. “ Siun When Thomas Francis Meagher Mr. John Dillon was elected to the Government:— Feiners,” he says, “ declare that the stood in the doek at Clonmel charged British Parliament in 1880. For thirty- If Mr. Dillon’s 37 years of service first principle must bn to deny the right with high treason against tbe British eight years he has sat at Westminster. to. the English Parliament has re of Englaud to rule our country, and Empire, of which Mr. Dillon is so What has been the resultP Mr. Dillon sulted in the loss of one-sixth of the the presence of Irish members in her proud, he did not express himself in is, indeed, a modest patriot, and still Irish population and the increase of Parliament is an acceptance of ihat the “ friendly and conciliatory” way more modest politician. He claims that Ireland’s tax-burden to an extent right.” But he goes on to justify the which Mr. Dillon would lead one to im “ the Irish Party offered the people a that now leaves Ireland the *most MANSION HOUSE, DUBLIN, right of England to rule our country by agine by his reference to the ’48 men policy which had been tried for forty heavily taxed country in the world— stating that our principle of abstention as being imbued with his policy of “ ex years, and had been justified by uro* —if Ireland, after Mr. Dillon’s 37 paralleled successes ” * (Metropolitan Friday, Dcccmbcr 16 to Monday, “ rules out Grattan, O’Connell, Wolfe pediency and compromise.” It is true years of supporting English Liberal Tone and Emmet, the ’48 men, the ’ 67 that Thomas Francis Meagher had con TT.I.L., Nov. 21, 1918). Most Na Ministers and becoming the dupe of Occcmbcr 16 men, Isaac Butt, Parnell and Davitt,” tested Waterford some time previously. tionalists who elected Mr. Dillon and English policy, has greater losses to because “ they accepted and based their He was not elected, but a few words his fellow patriots thought they were show in man-power and in money 3 to 10 p.m. DAILY. policy on the presence of Irishmen in from "his election address will serve to sending a Partv to Westminster-to ob than any nation in Europe'—would the English Parliament." That is one show the difference between his appeal tain Home Rule and come back to Ire the Irish people be a sane people land to legislate in Ireland for the bene Admission 3d. of the most blasphemous statements to the Irish people and the appeal, for to continue the policy of Parliamen- which Mr. Dillon has ever made. - Not instance, made by Capt. Redmond, of fit of their country. Apparently, how tarianism for which Mr. Dillon Season Tickets 1/6 one of the me'n so glibly mentioned by the British army. “ I sKall not meddle ever, Mr. Dillon has come to regard stands, or would they justify Dean the Apostle of Futurity “ accepted and with English affairs,” he said. “ 11 Westminster as his permanent address. Swift’s bitter epigram nTTTTTTTTYTTTTTTTTTTTTT based their policy on the presence of I shall take no part in the strife of par* He boasts now of forty years* service in “ He gave the little wealth he had HOME FROM FRONGOCH AND LEWES. Irishmen in the English Parliament.’ ’! ties—all factions are alike to me. II the House, aud gives reasons why he To build a house for fools and mad, DWYER & O'NEILL, Cycle Agents, Grattan not only did not accept Eng shall go to the House of Commons to should be kept there apparently until To show by one satiric touch 4 ARRAN QUAY. land’s right to rule Ireland, but des insist on the rights of this country to he dies. His next modest demand will No nation needed it so much.” 500 SECONDHAND BICYCLES, Ladies’ pised any connection with English poli be held, governed, and defended by Its probably be that the nation should be We leave it to East Cavan to answer, and Gent's, price £4 10s., £ 5 10s., £ 6 10s., ticians o f their Parliament. “ Your own citizens and by) them alone. Whilst insured against the “ unparalleled” but we know what the answer will £7 10s., to £ 8 10s.t carriage paid. Also 50(1 loss it would sustain if anything hap Stove-Enamelled Frames, all sizes. Ladies and legal security is not Repeal, nor Re I live I shall never rest satisfied until be. The British Parliament is the Gent’s ; trade supplied. Also New Covers nunciation, nor recognition, nor the the kingdom of Ireland has won a Par pened him at Westminster. Forty years grave of Irish hope, Irish energy, from 5s., 8s., 10»., 12s., 15m., 28s. Tubes laws of England, but the laws of Ire liament, an ariby, and a navy of hei iu the waiting room does not appear to Irish wealth, and the Irish people. from 2s. O-.l.-to 6s. 9d., carriage paid. Also land ; your security consists in that ycu own.” More than seventy years ago be a profitable occupation for a whole It has been the Great Delusion of New Machines from 11 to 15 guineas; Dunlop are not dependent for liberty on the Party. The argument of success at Tyres and Brooks Saddles. No shortage of that appeal was made to the people of the Irish mind politic for years. Cavan anything. - laws of England or the Parliament of Waterford by one of the men whom Mr. Westminster is an unconscious admis will dispel it for ever, ana by making England; your legal security is that Dillon claims to follow ! In Meagher’s sion of hopeless failure in the mission Quiet, yet Central, for Business cr Pleasure. the Irish mind free, ensure the ulti you do not require legal security in the time there was no talk of “ a reign of entrusted to him by the Irish people. mate freedom of the Irish body. FLE/WNG’S HOTEL, Parliament of England, and have no law based on the consent of the gov However, we will take Mr. Dillon on erned.” And yet Meagher was con his own method of valuation for the East Cavan gave the answer in May thing to do with her judges or their which all Ireland will give in Decem 32 GARDINER’S PLACE, DUBLIN. comments, nor dependent on the laws, siderably more: advanced in his ideas present, and see what this record of Two minutes' walk from Gardiner Street constructions, comments, power or than the men v£ho say they follow in his j “ unparalleled successes ” is worth ber, and judgment will be passed on Chapel, or Trams. Mr. 'Dillon and his Party’ s Record. quibble of a foreign land.” And again: footsteps. Mr. .Dillon__ |muy may folioioiiow __In 1880, when Mr. John Dillon was SELECT. MODERATE. CONVENIENT. “ It is not a question whether Ireland Thomas Francis Meagher—but he is a first elected to the British Parliament, STEPHEN’S GREEN DIVI8I0N. HICH-CLASS TAILORING, LAY has a right to be free, but whether very, very long way behind him. And we take the population test. Every The campaign opened on Monday when we remember that Thomas Fran nation counts its prosperity by the AND CLERICAL. Great Britain has a right to enslave night at the Mansion House, which was her. When the latter country asks cis Meaghei* was tried for high treason number of its citizens. In that year crowded. There was a strong rally in H. BOLAND ( What right have the Irish to make against the Empire of which Mr. Dillon the British Government officially re support^of Alderman Tom Kelly, S.F. laws for themselves V Ireland will not is so proud, a year or so after he had turned the population of Ireland as candidate, who denounced a Dublin (Late Todd Burns, Ltd.), answer, but demand ‘ What right has sought election to the English Parlia 5,202,648 souls. The population is now evening sheet which shouted for the 64 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET. England to make laws for Ireland P’ ” ment, we can guess how much “ ex officially estimated by the Registrar- J blood of the Irishmen members of Case It is more than a hundred years since pediency and compromise ” ran through Generai as 4,337,000.' Ireland has, ment’s Bris-ade. He said these men Grattan spoke these words. But, per his veins. From tfafe dock Thomas therefore, lost 865,648 souls, of nearly Remember.” were Irishmen, and he hoped the brave Let Erin haps, if Grattan had lived during the Francis Meagher Expressed his senti One-sixth of her population, since Mr. Bavarians would do no such thing as 4 XMAS CARDS. ments thus: “ I am here to speak the Dillon went to Westminster. In the 4 past three or four years and listened to y hand them over to England. The Irish 4 15 striking designs (6 tricolour), all the comments and quibbling of “ a truth, whatever it may cost—I am here great European war the official figure claim for Independence would be pre beantifnlly hand-coloured. Greetings 4 foreign land,” he wbuld have been as to regret nothing IJhave ever done, to of British casualties to date, including sented to the Peace Conference by De 4 in Irifh and English. Bonnd to oom- ardent an apostle of Futility as Mr. regret nothing I have eVer said—I am Dominion and Colonial troops, was an 4 mand ready sain especially during Valera in person going there and acting 4 Elections. Prices retail, 4*1.. 3d., 2d. Dillon himself! here to crave With no lying lip the life nounced in the House of Commons on with the full moral authority of the 4 Fall Sample Range 3/- to Trade. Mr. Dillon’s reference to Wolfe Tone I consecrate to the liberty of my coun November 19. The total number re Irish people behind him. 4 is as blasphemous as the use which the try. Even here—here, where the tjjief, ported killed up to that date was 4 4 S. O h-eijieArhOw members of the U.I.L., to whom he the libertine, the murderer, have .left 658,704. So that Ireland’s losses by Wo regrot that owing to pressure on our 4 was speaking,. make of Wolfe Tone’s their footprints in the dust—here on emigration from British rule in Ireland space wo are unable to publish the many ap (O. IRVINE), peals for funds and lists of subscriptions 4 6 MOUNTPLEASANT SQUARE, memory. The membership cards of this spot, where the shadows of death since 1880 exceed by two hundred thou •f surround me, and from which I see my sand the total number of British, Domi which hare reached us. 4 RANELACH, DUBLIN. that body are decorated with a drawing Our usual article in Irish has been held of the dead patriot/’ surrounded by a early grave in an unanointed soil open nion and Colonial troops reported killed" over this week. ^PTurday, November 30, 1918. NATIONALITY.
Westminster. 11. Because it has shut down our island home has frontiers which can mines, stripped our forests, crip Ireland lias been electing members never be altered. The sea is our sen pled our railways and canals, pre tinel ; the waves are witness to our sepa TH to go to Westminster since the year vented access to our magnificent 1801. The result is apparent in the rateness from Britain, and our oneness harbours, ruined our fisheries, and within their encircling arms. '(A little ruin of our country.' We. wish* every deprived our workingmen of the voter to ask liimself or herself what French boy of my acquaintance pro HEW IRISH BOOT FACTORY ability to earn a living in their own tested that he shouldn’t be asked to is the good of sending Irish representa land. learn geography till after the Peace tives to a place which has never done 12. Because it has left every Irish in Conference had fixed things up,\-as fron- I us any good. There is no argument in terest subject to legislation, and tiers were in a state of flux at present! favour of it except the salary attached better material, social, education But he-would be safe in learning a de to the argument. But there are many al, or fiscal at the mercy of a per finition of Ireland’s boundar;o«). I good reasons why we should not send manent majority exercising a nu Secondly, the inhabitants of the North«l Boots! Boots! Boots! members to Westminster, even for the merical superiority of five to one East,,corner of the oountry who pre sake of their receiving four hundred a in conflict with our interests. tend (I think their attitude is camou year. We must recall a little of our 13. Because it has inflicted upon us in flage) they want this corner cut off from Shout it from end to end of Ireland I Oar own history. Ireland first sent members numerable Coercion Acts, Penal the rest of Ireland, are resident aliens. I to Westminster under the Act of Union, Laws and Regulations, directed to They do not belong to the historic Irish Irish Boot Company is bora, and if you write to which came into force in January, 1801. ' suppress our national aspirations, Nation, any more than the sahib-lqg be the Manager of This was the privilege granted to Ire and has deprived us of the§rights long to India. They have refused to land in return for the extinction of the of free speech, free publication and become amalgamated with Ireland. Irish Parliament, which had existed for freedom of elections; has violated They refuse to have hand, lot,, oj* part many centuries. There had always been its own laws, has paid no regard to in shaping her destinies. If they threw Tht Irish Boot Manufacturing Co. a .National Feis or Assembly from the the stipulation in our favour in the in their lot with Ireland even- now at earliest times recorded, and this As Treaty of Union, which the British the eleventh hour, we would not ask sembly made laws for the Irish people. Government now proposes to aban 4 their race or creed or clan.’ We would and JOHN MALONE, LTD .. What were we doing during all the don in its entirety, and has depor welcome them. But if they insist on I ages of the world down to 1801 ? Not ted many thousands of Irishmen remaining resident aliens is it not out sending members to Westminster. Ac and.some Irishwomen for political rageous that they should claim to carve 67 & 68 NORTH KING STREET, DUBLIN cording to Mr. John Dillon,- the Irish reasons from their own country and up the country which belongs to the people followed ’ an insane policy for treated them asv convict prisoners native Gaelic race, and to those who be will reply in a way to gladden your Irish ages. They only, became sane in, the without process of law. identify themselves with this race. As heart. The "promoters are desirous that our year of our Lord 1801, when they com well might a colony of Hebrews in 14. That it did not in any degree pro people should have a share in this new menced the sending of members to the mote any real union between the France or England claim the partition British Parliament. Now, in 1800 an peoples of Ireland and Great Bri of France or England in their favour. development Act was-passed at the same time in the tain, that it has bred national'Un The people of the Southern States of Ijrish and British Parliaments putting feeling and disaffection, which is America, on the other hand, were not Sinn FSiners supplied with perfecf fitting new itato legislative enactment • the pro- growing in intensity from year to resident aliens. Thdy had been settled J teeth 75 per cent, below prices charged by vi^ions of a Treaty of Union drawn up year, and has divided the Irish in America as long as, and in many in- j N e w T e e t H . Swanky Extortionist English Dentists and in six^drtic.les, and purporting to re stances longer, than the ‘Yankees,’ and Slimy Jews. Highest satisfaction guaranteed or money returned. My new teeth never change people into factions, and is dan colour and never wear out Set* from 21/-. Others frequently charge 84/- for my 21/- quality. present a mutual agreement between gerous to international peace.' 1 they certainly looked on America as | Why be fleeced ? Extractions absolutely pa'nless 1/- each. Kcmode s 14/-. Cheapest immediate the two-kingdoms of Ireland and Great Sinn Fein asks every voter at the* their country. They loved it and served repairs. If living miles away post yoiir repairs; returned, as good as new, day received. Plate Britain. Ireland has been and is now coming elections to repudiate and de it according to their lights, unlike the broken in pieces 5/-; teeth added 3/6 each. /VIft. MULLAN (staunch Sinn Peiner for years. In governed under the provisions of that nounce the Treaty of Union by with * oaTrion-crow ’ .Orangemen. Still, Lin practice 15 years and of University training), 12 D U K E STRE ET, D U BLIN . Treaty, which was mutual in form, Ire drawing the Irish members from West- coln-considered to be the greatest land agreeing to surrender her native minster. It is the' first step on the road American since Washington—did not SOUTH DUBLIN. Parliament 'and receiving in return a to freedonf. It will give Ireland a firm say that the coercion oi the party led CAVAN DUFFY’ 8 COMMITTEE IRELAND ££ certain number of seats in the British and unassailable right to present hei by Davis and Lee was ‘ unthinkable.’ ROOMS. Parliament, which then became the law claims at the Peace Conference and to He held paitition to be .unthinkable. KING8TOWN1 100 Lower Ge:rge’s street. Peace Conference making assembly of the “ United King Sir, we have come here in the name of BY L. 0. REDMOND 1IOWABD. obtain the revision and cancellation of BALKEYi 18 Castle Street. The most arresting book of the dajr. Deals doms of Great Britain and Ireland.'* the Treaty. the overwhelming jnajority of our com b la c k ROCK 1 Inquiries may be made, for with the many phase* of Ireland’s claim to Now, it. is clear that the election of representation at the Pence Conference, and patriots, i.e., the historic Irish Nation, the present, at 8 inn Fein Club, 13 the utomcntous issues involved. Irish members to sit and vote in the to demand self-determination for Ire British Parliament at Westminster is The United States and George's Avenue. A book of intense interest to land- one and indivisible. Self-deter every Irish-born mat and woman an essential part of the Treaty then pur- Partition. mination is for countries, not for locali SINN FEIN supporters wishing to help by purported to be made between the two canvassing, speaking, subscribing, or supply Crown ira., 132 pages The New York correspondent of .the ties ; for nations, not for alienr«ettlers, ing vehicles on day of poll, December 14th, in stiff boards and kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. will kindly communicate with Sean Mao wrappers. Price 3/6— who are in, but not of, the land. ...” by Post 3/9. On sale at “ Daily News” kindly informs us that Giobuin, Constituency Director, 5 Sydney A treaty is an international contract Americans are in favour of Home Rule But why continue this imaginary de-. all Booksellera. Liberal made between two or more nations. Avenue, Blackrock, or call at any of above terms to thq Trade. (whatever they mean, it certainly does claration of rights at the Peace Con Committee Rooms. Now, every contract must be based on ference. We know the principles our THOMAS KIERSEY, not mean self-determination) for Ire Palmerston Gardena. mutual consideration and the consider land, “ but they see no objection to delegates will express. We can trust Dahlia. ation or price which Ireland received separate treatment f»r Ulster.?’ In them to state oui’ case...... Victimisation! for the extinction oft her native^ Par By the way, it is amusing to sed that deed ! Why then did the ‘.‘Yankees’*— BELTON liament was the privilege of sending the name given by Southerners to a statue is to be erected at Westminster A Word to Employers. ^members to Westminster. Northerners, and often ignorantly mis to President Lincoln, the Arch-Pro- 12 B ota n ic Road, Dublin If the Irish members instead of pro On our books are many men and women, applied by English people to all Ame tagonist of the Anti-Partition policy. Clerks, Shop Assistants, Labourers, ceeding to Westminster in 1801 had as ricans—see every objection to separate During the American Civil War Eng 20 Xmas Cards 2/6 sembled in Dublin and had refused to Civil Servants, ete., treatment for the Southern States, and land was on th.e side of the seceding P o s t Tr« t . go to "Westminster the Union could South, but as Eoin MacNeill oiice said: who have been dismissed from their positions. why did they wage a bloody civil war in I Owing to the action of the British Govern Irish Trade Mark on Every Card never have oome into effect. The con v The Englishman worships the ac tract would have become null and void' order to “ coerce ” the Southerners into ment, these, our countrymen and women,- find remaining in the Union from which complished fact.” The traveller from I themselves with hunger and privation staring through failure of one of the parties, to New Zealand in the 21st century may Gibsol Clears fulfil an essential condition.^ The elec they”wished to secede? If by “ separ ! them in the face. They are anxious to find ate treatment ” for Irish provinces was find statues of leading Sinn Feinidthe tion of Irish members to sit and- vote I employment—to find something to do in their merely nfeant the creatibn of an Irish in London, and the English will prob ] own country. tHe Skin at Westminster carries with it an ac AS NOTHING ELSE WILL. Constitution on lines analogous to that ably wax as enthusiastic over the advo Will YOU Help? ceptance of the Treaty, and binds Ire cates of Irish Independence when it is Try this famous Irish Household Ointment land to be governed oy laws made at of the Swiss Federal State, the Irish II so, wite t o :—► - people would be prepared io consider an accomplished fact as they did over for all kinds of Skin trouble. Its magical Westminster so far as these laws do not Jeanne D’Arc during the recent war. j THE SINN FEIN EMPLOYMENT healing and soothing powers afford instant violate the Act of Union. it, but we know “ separate treatment ” BUREAU, relief' and quickly cure here mean? the.partition of our country, Maire de Buitleir. Sinn Fein stands for the absolute re 6 HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN. Eczema, Ringworm, Pil.s, Bad Legs, jection and repudiation of that Treaty and to this we will never consent. We irritation, Itohing, Cuts, Wounds, Sores, are accustomed to partition proposals Bruises, Bums. Scurvy, Rough 8kin, «n many grounds, among which are the What the Party Costs the Irish CONCERT OF TRADITIONAL Pimples, ete. following fourteen causes:— from Britishers, but it is amazing that IRISH MU8IC, Americans, especially “ Yankees,” People. Every Ir&h Household should keep a Box 1. Because it was a Treaty, obtained s MANSION HOU8 E, DEC. 4th, at S. handy. It banishes skin trouble from the should be found to acquiesce in them. Favourite Singers and Instrumentalists. home. by bribery. Perhaps they don’t. We are not so Mr. Dillon said some months ago he LECTURE ON IRI8 H MUSIC BY FATHER Of all Chemists, 1/3. Or post free from the 2. Because it was not, and could not, gullible as to believe all we see in the Manufacturers. J. Gibson and Co., be sactioned by the Irish people. wanted to summon the Irish people to O’FLYNN. British Press. But if by any chance BOLTON STREET TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, Clare Lane, Dublin. 3. Because it was an unjust Treaty. assemble and forswear a Republic. President Wilson or another United Now the Irish people are assembling, ______8 UNDAY, DEC. 1st, at 8.______4. Because it was fatal to the na States representative at the Peace Con and they demand of Mr. Dillon, to for S.F. ELECTION BADGES tional interests of our country. ference ventures to suggest the parti swear Westminster. They ask him and CONNRADH NA CAEDHILGE on Tricolour, with printed inscription “ Up De 5. r Because it removed from the Irish tion of Ireland, I can well imagine how his followers to forswear £400 a year of Valera” or any other Candidate for your con* Nation the power to promote and that gentleman’s argument would be AN ARD CHRAOBH. stituency, Id. and 2d. each. 6 doc. lots. protect its trade, foreign com British gold, and his answer is to ask Wholesale only. State Candidate's name and pulverised by our delegates. Ireland to forswear her right to exis order early. Cash with order. merce, agriculture, industries, “ Sir,” they would say, “ the Gov Election Ballads, Buttons, Flags, eto. transportation, and -finance. tence as an independent nation. ernment you represent, believing the We cannot seek independence as a FLEADH NA NODLAG A. J. BYRNE, 1 C?mden Row, Dublin. 6. Because it prevented the cultural United States to be one and indivisible, Monarchy, as Mr. Dillon knows right IN development of our race and robbed coerced by physical force, at the cost of I have nothing to add to the Statement that well. We can only seek it as a Repub Round Room, Mansion House, for 25 years I am booming it of the powers of growth and self much bloodshed and much suffering, lic. Mr. Dillon asks us to surrender development in harmony with its Irish-Manufactured Outfitting the people of the Southern States into that independence. We ask him to sur SATURDAY, 11th JANUARY, 1919. natural genius and aspirations. remaining within the United States. At The 7. Because it inflicted on our country render Westminster and £400 a year, Irish Outfitting Headquarters, The United States had only risen from and yet he will not do it. He eannot TICKETS ... 5 /-and 8/6. a load of taxation, increasing year the status of a British colony to that of 19 PARLIAMENT 8TREET, DUBLIN. ly, far beyond its taxable capacity, surrender a bauble seat in the British an Independent State two generations Parliament and a petty salary even for CONNRADH NA CAEDHILGE | * T. J. LOUGHUN. and certain to increase far more previously. They were inhabited by a rapidly, and without any corres the liberty of his country and the AN ARD CHRAOBH. cosmopolitan ^population, with no an future welfare of his race in the ages IRONGOCH STUDIOS ponding expenditure to set off its cient traditions to inspire them, no ra fo r BANNERv ILLUM NATED effects. to come. Every Irish member costs cial, affinities to weld them together. England nothing. They are paid out of IRISH DANCING. ADDRESSES. fCENE PAINTING. 8. Because the taxes of our country The Southern States exceeded in size H-iLL & CHURCH DECORATING are mainly used to promote British Irish taxation. But how much does If you want to learn Irish Dancing, and wealth many independent coun every Irish member cost the Irish MURRAY & K AIN manufactures. . tries, and many were, anil are still, of Attend the Class taught by Risteard 9.. Jiecause it reduced our population people in cash, in blood, in repression, Mac Gabhann opinion that they possessed as much and commercial destruction P It is not 50 BLE88INGT0N. ST., DUBLIN. by one half, and still continues to claim to develop a separate national ex AT 25 PARNELL SQUARE depopulate our land and keep it to be cpunted, measured, or plumbed. istence as the-revolted Colonies in the It is beyond human calculation.______Every Thursday at 8.30. LIMERICK depopulated and weighed down by War of Independe.’ide had a right to le- crushing burdens. nounce their connection with the Bri You Pay Too Muoh ADMI88I0N ...... 8IXPENCE TURKISH BATHS 10._Because it has restricted Irish in tish Government. In their social and IN C O M E T A X dustries in manifold ways, has de ecoi.omio construction they differed Consult us, we know. TAXATION DOUBLED CLOSED stroyed our merchant shipping and wid. ly iiou the Northern States. The FARMERSI YOUR TURN NOW. ¥ deprived our manufacturers, mer TAXES RBC0VBRY L td. Until Further Notice. ijuestion of Slavery was not the only 5 WESTMORELAND STREET, DUBLIN. Don’t Pay Income Tax chants, and traders of access to the uiviJing line betwen North and South. . 'Phone 4745. Without Consulting Us. WATCH REPAIRS. competitive markets of the world Sinn Fein in insisting on Ireland re REDUCTIONS, REPAYMENTS. EXEMP for the sale of produce and pur FARMERS, SEND POSTCARD JOR A ll, New Parts in Stock for Walthams, maining one and indivisible is in a much ______FORM 100.A.1. TIONS, ACCOUNTS, RETURNS. Elgins, Omegas, and English Watches, etc. chase of raw materials, and has cut- stronger position than was President Expert Work. Lowest Terms. Country Work by Post Special the lines of intercourse between Lincoln and his Party. Firstly, nature A. S. CLARKIN JOSEPH MacDONAGH, and Prompt Attention :< our people and those of Europe and has defined the boundaries of Ireland FOR BEST HOUSE COALS. 58 Dame St., Dublin (late Inland Revenue). H. O’KELLY, Watchmaker, __America. for all time, beyond yea or nay. Our 203 CT. BRUNSWICK ST., DUBLIN Manager— JOHN MacDONAGH. 20 ES8EX QUAY, DUBLIN. NATIONALITY. Saturday, November 30^
Victory Fund. PREPAID ADVERTISEMENTS. Every Three Words, 4d. Minimum Charge, 1/4 Atl CUrtlAtin UtlflAttAlf 5AOt)AtA6 tlAtfltitlCA Wo are row open to accept orders We again appeal this week to the SITUATIONS VACANT. (Iristi N ational A ssurance S o cie ty ) noble hearts and generous impulses of JO O T TRADE— Wanted _a taster for general the Irish people for the funds necessary i - work. Apply, stating experience and 2 SAINT ANDREW STREET, DUBLIN, to carry on * to victory the great [ salary expected, to the Irish Boot, Manufac Has collected more premiums and has a larger amount of Funds than any other turing Co. and John Malone, Ltd., 67 and .68. office for a similar period. - f t 99 . cause of Irish - Independence. The Nth. King St., Dublin. I crisis of our destiny is rapidly ap 'SfflANTED— G ood, energetic general for Established Twelve Months the Premium proaching. Self-determination for Ire suburbs; country girl preferred. Apply' Income now Exceeds £20,000 per' annum E. 11, .“ Nationality.” land means the- determination of our Sow is the time for Irishmen and Irishwomen to determine the future prosperity own fate. The stake is all. It carries NOTICES. of their own country. ENQUIRIES INVITED. - STANDARD the interest of one and all. The.re ^RD-CRAOBH STNN FEIN, 6 Harcourt St. LAWRENCE CASEY, General Manager. sponse needed to meet the situation is J, Meeting Monday Next, 8.30 p.m. vital. Sinn Fein invites the Irish na- j PfiAOBH Ua Grainnaigh, Manchuin— Draw- tion to make that response in a .measure . ing Postponed till Feb. 1st, 1919. Hol ders of tickets kindly return in time. MARGARINE proportioned to the issues at stake.' It J)ERRY City • S.F. Executive— Watch- ULSTER. An Undeniable Assertion- MUNSTER. is true that the tide is rising strongly I Guessing Competition is Postponed to And We can prove it. Terms nett, Cash with order. . in favour of the issue of national inde- the 12th January, 1919. All sheets are to pendence. The meetings held all over I be filled up and returned before Jan. 8thJ 1919.. Wholesale only. the country, in-toxn and city, village I Q. CO. 1st Batt. I.V .— Result of Drawing City of Dublin Assurance Society and hamlet, on Sunday proclaim an I for Miniature Rifle. Winning No., 438. (Cumann llpjwvOAir Cacixac Daife-^Ca-Cliat). earnestness and. sincerity plain to all.H JJATHMINES T rue Drawing— Result will It is no paltry question of a victory at not be published until issue dated Satur All Funds day. December 7th. Claims DOWDALL, O’MAHONEY - tSe polls. No effort to-snatch a win HEAD OFFICES: invested i MISCELLANEOUS. for sect or party. The men who carry In Irish i and CO., LTD., the standard are seeking neither jobs, ADDRESSES, .Celtic Design, Xmas Cards, D’OLIER CHAMBERS, DUBLIN salaries, cash, nor reward of any de Badges, neatly executed; moderate. P. Promptly. Securities. *L Leander 11 Works, Cork. scription except the pricesless privilege O’Malley, Artist, Donore Avenue, Dublin. CSW Has issued more Ordinary Branch Policies to the Irish public during the paet 13 of furling our colours amongst the ^ N Y Length of Irish Suiting and Overcoat Men’s Irish Flannel Shirts, 7/11, 10/6, and liberated flags of Europe. A subscrip ing sold at mill price; Overcoats ready months than any other Assurance Society trading in Ireland established during the past 10 years. It is the largest and wealthiest Irish Life Oflloe. 15/6 each. Men’s Irish Underwear, 4/6, 6/6, tion to the Sinn Fein General Election to wear from 55s. Fallon’s, Mary St. and 9 /6 and 12/6 each. Menls Famous “ Lee’ * Fund (or Victory Fund) is a small price I Talbot St.,- Dublin. ASW Boots, 42/- and 45/- pair. Ladies’ Lee ” I QORK Cumann na mBan District Council FULL FACE VALUE ALLOWED ON TRANSFERS. AGENTS GUARANTEED Boots and Shoes, 32/6, 35/- end 39/6 pair. to pay for the liberty of the donor’s I wishes to thank Country Branches whose INTEREST IN BOOK. ______. Post orders promptly attended to. Postage’ country and the enjoyment of that I members .were so kind as to send cakes, milk, 6d. extra. I and butter for Sunday Night’s Ceilidhe. liberty in every sphere of human acti Apply: G. W . Guest, CONNACHT. QOATES' Embrocation. Best for Chest Com LEINSTER. General Manager and Secretary. PHELAN BROTHERS, vity, -in trade, commerce, manufac plaints, Rheumatism, Cramps, Sprains, tures, agriculture, in education, in na THE GREAT IRI8H HOUSE, [ etc. Irish Made. ASW 7 and 8 GEORGE’S ST., WATERFORD. tional culture and self-respect, ;iif future I M AYD EW Ointment; powerful herbal openings and enterprise, in everything remedy for skin complaints; 8d. post. Coates, 15 Brighton Square, Dublin. ASW Irish Tailors and Tailoresses’ which makes life a noble and a worthy I O ’CONNOR’S Trousers; newest designs, im- SMALL calling. The government of Ireland by ] I mense stock to select from; selling retail COMPACT WATCHES the Irish people for all the Irish people I at wholesale prices; save 4s. in the £ . 167 Union ensures an equal opportunity to all men | Capel Street. DG are much more convenient chan big and women born on this island to win I O ’CONNOR’S Overcoats, Rain proofs, Water ones. We have iust received a proofs; latest shapes; selling retail at (Open to all Workers in the ^Clothing Industry in Ireland). special lot of Nickelled Silver Lever their way according - to their ability, I wholesale prices; save 4s. in the £ . 167 Watches of this kind. They are industry and talent. It ensures that Capel- Street, Doblin. DG I OFFICES: seven-jewelled, strong, and excel thle taxes contributed by the Irish O ’CONNOR’S Suits in Tweeds, Serges, Wor ARDEE HOUSE, TALBOT STREET, DUBLIN. _ lent timekeepers. We are offering steds ; latest shapes and designs; selling them at 82/6 each— a very low price people^, amounting to many millions for a good watch just' now. Get one yearly,, will be spent in Ireland by the retail at wholesale prices; save 4s. in the £ .■ pELLOW WORKERSI In sddressing you those of any other Trade Union. Special pro 167 Capel Street. DG while the stock lasts. Irish people for the benefit of the Irish I on behalf of the above, we desire to draw vision has been made for those transferring to gH O W CASES, Kiosk and Panoply, suitable our ranks, so that they shall suffer the mini GANTER 'BROTHERS people, and not for the benefit of a no- for Aonach, for Sale by Irish Cutlery Co., your attention to the conditions that exist in mum of loss in the transfer. Its funds are 63 80UTH GREAT GEORGE’S 8T„ ther people. It ensu-res the develop- I 17 Merchant’s Quay. - ERW our trade in this country. ■ While workers in growing stronger day by day, and are solely DUBLIN. ment of the industries of our land and I ^TRICOLOURS— Brooches with names of any every other trade and in every other country used in Ireland. their protection against unfair or undue S.F. Candidate or any name in Irish or have been improving their 'conditions and ad As Irishmen working for the uplifting of our URSULINE CONVENT, SLIGO English, 1./-. Edward Healy, Brooch Manu country end our class, we appeal, therefore, vancing their wages, we in the Tailoring Trade Pupils prepared for'Matriculation, competition. It guarantees the open facturer, 128-129 Francis Street, Dublin. to the workers in our trade to rally to the in Ireland have been content to stand stilL University Scholarships (14 won in ing of the resources of Ireland’s wealth 1£MAS CARDS, Presents, Toys, etc.; genuine support of this first Irish Trade Union in our Irish Xmas Cards sent on approval; trade Neither our wages nor our conditions have last two years), Intermediate, Bank, now closed by a jealous hand, which been improved within the last three or four Trade in Ireland for many years, which caters Commerce. King’s Scholarship^ In would not permit a shamrock to grow inquiries solicited; all orders and correspon for all classes of Tailoring Workers within its dence answered by return. M . J. Farrell, decades to-any such extent as'would bring corporated. Society of . Musicians. them up to the standards obtaining in other ranks. Workers 1 Join up, and prove your in Ireland if it could stop it from grow Manufacturer, Publisher and t • ^olesaler, sincerity to the principle of self-determination Residential School of_Domestic Science ing. It ensures the utilisation of our Roscommon. _ DSW trades and industries, and one of the reasons, Attaohed. 'in our opinion, directly responsible for this and your desire and- will to battle for the- good mines, the creation of national forests, | is that forty years of Trade Union policy of your class and your country— problems THANKSGIVINGS. which we in Ireland will have to deal with BUY the harvesting of the seas teem J ACKNOW LEDGM ENT for favours received, directed and controlled by an English organ Irish-made Shirts. isation, with all its weak vacillation and in along our own lines in the immediate future. ing with fish, the provision of fuell to Sacred Heart, Holy Family, Blessed Sections for Male and Female workers in alh Irish-made Underwear. r to warm our firesides. It ensures the J Virgin Mary and St. Patrick, and preserving eptitude,^ have left the worker in the Tailor Irish-made Socks (Blarney Wools), Hand and ing Trade in Ireland little better off than when branches of the Tailoring and Clothing In opening of our great harbours to trade I me from serious illness. - dustry are in existence within the ranks of Machine Knitted. he adopted its policy and banner as the limit Irish-made Collars and Braces. with the world. It ensures to our mer- t)eA ■ nacc trxSpU* C|toi'6e |i6-t1acjhcA fo file ip of his desire and the aegis of his condition— the Union, and all who require information as an tliai^om Oeannai^te Ajuf* le DlAidn fof* Irish Poplin Ties. in fact any advances that have been gained to how to become members, or to form Bran chants the commerce of the seas. It I at ufrc a pua|t4|' —*"Oc6ji#ip>.’* ches; or as to the general administration of Prices 25 per cent.. under any other Store. ensures (o our manufacturers the mar- in his wages or conditions have been secured QRATEFUL THANKS to the Sacred Heart by the worker without the assistance of the the Union, are invited to apply to the Secre kets of the world. It ensures to our of Jesus for favour received.— A. J. F. official portion of his Trade Union. _ But apart tary or any other official of the Union at Ardee L U K E B U R K E workers the chance of winning an inde- I QRATEFUL THANKS to the Sacred Heart, from this, as Irishmen, are we consistent? We House Talbot St., Dublin. 105 Patrick Street, CORK. pendent livelihood in their own innd the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, and the proclaim aloud our right and our ability to On behalf of the Irish Tailors’ and Tailor- under fair conditions. It ensures the Saints, for favour received. govern ourselves in our own oountry, and its esses’ Union. QRATEFUL THANKS to the Mother of right to self-determination, while all our Stationery, Religious Goods, utilisation of the savings of our people [] God for favour granted; publication pro interests and ideals are bound up with and Edward Murphy, President. mised.—Maria. Books. stored in Our banks, and their sppiica-H centered in organisations which, to say the William O'Brien, Pres. Irish Trades tion to useful public works and trans- QRATEFUL Thanks to Saint Anthony and least, are foreign to us. Workers! We who Congress; have studied the wants of our class and their John Clinton, John Kivlehan portation. I t ensures to our fannersr[ limtion premised. Gael. | ideals have erected en Irish Trade Union which Trustees. the existence of competitive markets •MOST GRATEFUL THANKS to the Little will maintain and control its own Trade Union 2 O’CONNELL ST., LIMERICK uncontrolled and not liable to be closed Flower and Our Lady for favour received. policy and funds. Its policy is to uplift the Dermot J. Stewart, Secretary. by embargo without notice or. con — New Believer. workers at our trade to.the same standard of IRISH-MADE GOODS. wages and conditions as obtain in other Bankers— The Irish Wholesale Co-operative sideration. It means the freedom of Society Bank, Thomas St., Dublin. For Men’ s Shirts, Hosiery, Caps, &e. trade, the freedom of enterprise, and ACKNOWLEDGMENT. trades. Its scale of benefits are on a par with the free employment of national wealth UA —Da riiAic le miceit Ua TA,S *Sur lmjinctjt a rise fa c*8ean o ti&ttrnufiAin and resources. Curl^n bui-diaf-oo s<»tiAitte nasciijt-oc -oft- No middle course is now open, no fe Ifonnutud cu«ji let- pea^a.a^uf cel0 5 |t«ma FERGUS O’CONNOR’S F E RGUS O’CONNOR s.tt&it) H aiti 10, Umiine^C. position of half-servitude, no measure cuca as ■oeuno.m cpua?; leoma m-buAiitc ttoiji* DUBLIN. IRISH PRIVATE CHRISTMA8 of half-freedom? is now- possible. It is agar ri r^il «ca 5 0 im-bei-6 a gciijroe fift* Manufacturers of . , . leip an af>m*«l feo6 cajiIa nac p6«t)iji ppetisfa CARD8 FOR 1918. Pictorial Publisher to the Trade. ALL CHURCH REQUISITES. absolute independence' or the complete f£ leic cabai|