EDITED BY ARTHUR GRIFFITH.
V3l. 1. No. 23. (New Series). SA TU R D A Y , JU L Y 21st, 1917. PRICE ONE PENNY.
Park, summoned by the Women’s Franchise tempt bayonet charges, without even the WEEK BY WBBK. Societies, did good work last Sunday in rivet- formality of reading the Riot Act. To Fr. — ♦ — tiug firmly the attention of the people of the Gread, C.C., who placed himself in front of A very simple and 'innocent announcement country on the effort of the discredited Par the bayonets and refused to leave the way, it appeared in the “ Herald” .of Saturday, June liamentary Party and its hack politicians in is due that blood was not shed in a town 30th. It ran thus: “ Miss Irish Caldurhead, Ireland to prevent the extension of the fran where there had neither been riot nor dis daughter of* an ex-Congressman, and Mis* chise to Irishmen and Irishwomen on the same order. The existing Government of the Elizabeth Stuyvesant have been arrested in terms as it is being extended to Englishmen country must order a genuine inquiry into the New. York. They were waving a Suffrage and Englishwomen. We understand an effort is prooedings of the Constabulary at Killaloe on banner when the President was unveiling a now being made by the Redmondites to get Wednesday week or be held responsible, not statue to Robert Emmet.” , Now, President the English Government to delay the Bill, only for what occurred, *but for what was at Wilson knows the state of Ireland to-day; he which was to come into operation next October, tempted. . knows the issue that ih being placed before the until next .year. people, and being decided emphatically by Mr. John Quinn, formerly President of the thfm in election after election; and he knows It may and probably does seem a trifle to an Kilmacduagh Branch of the U.*I.L., read an also-the significance to the Irish people-of England, which has no Christian belief, al address “ to the leaders of Sinn Fein ” on the Robert Emmet, the Separatist. What, then, though much Christian profession, that the occasion of the Gort meeting, in the couree of 'does President Wilson mean exactly in unveil bodies of the Irishmen whom England execu which it was said: “ As God is saving Ireland, ing a statue to Robert Emmet P ted last year should lie • in unconsecrated you have saved the young men of Ireland > i • ground. But, the people of Ireland, whether from conscription. . To you that credit is they be Catholic' or Protestant, possess the due. We behold fresh fields in which you Mr. J: T. Dolan, of the General Council Of belief that England lacks/ and the* burial of will still surely conquer. As you know, our County Councils Executive, writes to us:— . an IrisK person in unblessed ground, is to them country is taxed to the extent of thirty mil . I "have only now seen a c'opy of last week’s abhorrent. The demand that the bodies of lions at present; our trade and industries are “ Nationality.*’ in which a resolution of the Execu crippled, and soon our taxation will be fifty the men who gave their lives for their country tive Committee of the General Council of County millions. The Irish farmer will soon be taxed should be Christianly treated was made • at a ■ Councils favouring the exclusion of Ireland from thg out of existence, and not a word of protest ex Representation of the People Bill is commented upon. Dublin' public meeting last week. W e are cept from you. As you further know, to hold -I fell gratified at sharing^ to. however small an extent, curious to see how the Power that above all in hostile criticism from your .paper; but as it was I a Convention and offer Home Rule under such' others shouted that it was fighting for Chris who suggested this attitude at the Executive: meet conditions is a ‘ delusion, a mockery, and a tianity and civilisation will treat-the demand. ing. I think it is my duty to the other members to snare,’ whilst Ireland is having no control of seek an opportunity, if you give it to me, of stating • ## • the facts. the Irish purse, and whilst the money can be -The Franchise Bill was put- on the agenda 'of this On Tuesday at 3.30 a number of editors of taken out of our pockets. We ask what sort meeting for the.purpose of urging on the Government newspapers published in Ireland met the Eng oi Home Rule is that? W e congratulate you and-the Irish Party -the removal of two objectionable lish Premier in conference, at his request, at on refusing, to enter such Convention, You fea.tuKgs—rtl\e transfer of registration' duties from the ^•vV.jrY’ ' CVyPHyV tn tl*? th*» SliU. s a m JfT*“ uri i f j l 1 ir jTliT | Crowu, which -wouki inii<»;se oi» iu£-Councils inu'Vietea- sity or burdening tne rales with an additional salary ' X¥aCe fcorfYenrac?*,‘wfref6 vov Viii :k for the Secretaries to compensate them for this loss Examiner/* and his colleagues, will be reflec and independence for Ireland under, tlfe pro of emolument; .and the compiling* of voters’ - lists ted in future in the leading articles of the tection of European Powers, with full -control twice instead of once a year, which would« entail journals they conduct. au increase of expenditure altogether unnecessary in ' over taxation in your own country, whose tax- a country like Ireland, where so few people change ' able capacity is only 12’millions. That is the their place of abode. Mr. MoCusker, a prominent member of the reason Sinn Fein is spreading like' wild-fire, While these points were being, dealt with I re marked how contradictory it was for England to be Licensed Grocers and Vintners' Association, because, it is your wise policy, and yo.u have imposing a new franchise system oft us at the same Belfast, and a supporter of the Party, has taken y •• stand on a definite and unrtiakeable time that she was asking us to frame a new con hit upon a new method at strike-breaking. The Princi»:_-V stitution for ourselves, in which a franchise to secure vintners’ assistants are on strike to abolish the » • * representation to various interests must be one of the chief matters for arrangement: that if the Govern lmng-in system, and Mr. McCusker, whose /The Cork Sinn Fein Executive adopted the ment had any faith in the Convention they were in trade is largely done wi:h ilie Unionists, has following resolution “ That we tender to our viting, and if we had any faith in its possibility of issued the following bill.: — , fellow-countrymen, the electors of East Clare, success, it* was inconsistent to .have another of the our hearty thanks for their triumphant return . constitutional or social mechanisms welded by Eng “ EASTER WEEa ” IN JULY. land to fit lier own complex machine inserted -in the of the Champion of Irish ; Independence, framework of our national life, and to have our own Sinn Fein 8hop Men in Rebellion. Iamonn J& Valera, as their representative to Parliament’^ opportunity of constructing a suitable NONE EMPLOYED HERE. the National Council, now in process of for mechanism forestalled. And I .'suggested that though mation, which Council shall when formed direct it would be a pity to delay woman suffrage/ which for M. McCUtfKER. my part I have, always strongly desired, it might be in the only national way the destinies of their well to'Qur expectations to show the English Parlia Mr. McCusker’s appeal to Orange support country .here at home, in Ireland, and shall ment that we expected the speedy establishment of against employes looking for better conditions have plenary constitutional authority' to pife an Irish Parliament by proposing the postponement of or labour is a gem. If Belfast Unionist work sentand support Ireland’s claim to Sovereign franchise reform f«fi' its drafting. . This may have been a short-sighted, as it certainly ingmen can be gulled into believing that un Independence at the Peace Conference, in ac was a hastily-formed view, but I do not retracf or less ^hey help a Catholic- employer to break the cordance with, the declaration that all nations apologise for it—the assent of the other members of strike of his Catholic assistants, they will have claiming -£uie to-be free shall have fulfilment of the - Committee1, who seemed to have formed the same “ Easter Week ” in July.-fthey can have learn . tl-.at claim, and be at liberty, unrestricted by view, may have been hasty. But it is absolutely false to assert that any members of the Irish Party, ed nothing since 1907, wHjh the Unionist em alien force or influence, to select that form of or anyone in their behalf, suggested this or any reso ployers used them against themselves by in government under which they propose to live lution upon the Franchise Bill,' or that any thought of voking the old ignorance and bigotry. and develop.” • '&. . ' — . « the Party’s interests, or of the suppression of any political party’s strength by a--restriction of the fran chise, inspired my comments, ‘nor did the remarks or • During the -rejoioings over the East Clare Here is bn admirable letter from a Tipper attitude of the other members at this meeting give election at Ballybunnion a young man was ary farmer’ ■ grounds for any such suspicion. shot dead from a Constabulary barrack. A - “ The people of' Dublin have suffered prob • coroner’s jury has returned a verdict of “ wil ably more than any o the community in Ireland - Mr. Dolan’s explanation is a worse effort ful murder” against a sergeant and constable. from the scarcity, and dearness of food caused than his colleague Mr. Coen’s. Mr. Dolan The verdict, once returned, it is the business by the present war. More than any Other asserts that “ it is absolutely false to assert of the police to arrest*- the persons ih die ted. body of Irishmen and women also, they have that any member of the Irish Party or any Up to the present we hpve not heard that the made great and noble sacrifices for their one in their behalf suggested this or any reso constable and sergeants, have been arrested. country during the same period. As a-Result lution upon the Franchise Bill.” On whose But unless all law is made to be violated by of these noble sacrifices, many are now in great behalf does Mr. J. T; Dolan sit in the Co(mcih those who impose it upon this country, it is distress and poverty who before had comfort of the United Irish League and stump Louth illegal to allow these men to remain at large. and plenty. Let the farmers of Ireland come at election times and figure in election petitions to the rescue of ' these people now and show for illegal practices- against the opponents of The ugliest incident in'connection with the them, if only in a small'way, that they appre the Party. Mr. Dolan has used his* East Clare election took jlace on the night of ciate-and admire their fidelity and heroism in public position to give the English Govern the declaration of the poll. The Constabu Ireland’s cause. Here is how it can be done: ment an excuse to keep one half the people of lary authorities are being ’ asked on behalf of “ Last December a Committee was formed Ireland unenfranchised at the moment it was 1he people of Killaloetwhether it is in accord in Dublin to supply food at cost price to the enfranchising the whole people of England. ance with the regulations that a couple of families of poorly-paid labourers. This Com • • * * police officers may order, without warning, mittee has now three depots in the city; The A public meeting in the Dublin Phoenix baton charges npon rejoicing crowds and at principal one is at 4 Killarney St. The Acting 2 NATIONALITY. Saturday, July 21st, 1917.
Superintendent is a Mr. Dillon. If farmers taken off the straw, an Ulster merchant has though containing only forty pages, the writer who have early potatoes would Write to Mr. publicly Written as follow s“ My opinion is contrives to convey an immense amount of in Dillon,. informing him of the quantity they that this Co. Cork seed is by far the best seed formation concerning the position of women in have for sale, and also the probable time and on the .market this season, as the sprouting Ireland from the earliest recorded times prac station at which they could put them on rails test N clearly shows.” The only com tically down to our own. As she truly writes for Dublin, he (Mr. Dillon) could then let ment the Department of Agriculture in the opening chapter, “ The standard of a ‘ them know if his Committee required potatoes makes on this subject in its Annual Report, nation’s civilisation may be gauged by the at that time or not. 1915-1916,. just published, is the plaintive position occupied by its women, the manner in “ I would suggest that the price of all such i one that In view of anticipated difficulties which they are treated, the education they re potatoes sold expressly for those of our fellow- in procuring supplies- o f imported flax seed, ceive, the influence they possess, the freedom CGuntrymen and women who are at present in the Department in July, 1915, again advised accorded them.” And judged by this standard straitened circumstances through no fault of flax growers to save flax seed for their sowing Ireland can certainly claim to hold a very their, own, and in many cases as a direct resultl requirements in the following spring, but only high place indeed, for in no other'oountry that of their love and devotion to their country, a limited number of growers acted on this we know of could a brighter record of hfgh advice.” esteem for everything that is best and worthi should in no case* exceed 1/- per stone, no mat 4 . ■ • • ter what the price for early potatoes might be. est in the female sex be produced' than is set Hitherto it has been impossible to save seed Later on they could be sold perhaps for 10d.| before us in the pages of Miss Ni QubhghaiU’s without losing tfce fibre: that is, those who or less. The Committee would pay carriage little book. Every person interested, not saved seed sacrificed a corresponding propor and pay for or/return boxes or sacks. (Early alone in the women’s question, but in Irish potatoes shbula if possible be packed in boxes). tion of the flax. By using the simple machin history generally, should procure a copy of ery for taking off the seed and balls and leav “ Fearing some may think that the writer this admirable work, which, it may be noted, ing the straw in a perfectly straight condition is 'asking too much of the Irish farmer, I may is printed in Dublin on Irish paper with Irish for retting the seed can be-readily saved, and mention that I am one of that body myself, ink and by Irish trade union labour,'- and pub there is no reason why the Department should and I am quite willing to supply at 1/- per lished at the modest price of sixpence. There be so anxious about importing seed. There stone tHe produce of a quarter of'an Irish acre .are also* several attractive drawings by Saibh is another reason why this system of the Fibre to Mr. Dillon’s Committee, should they be in a Ki Trinseach, which brighten its interest. Corporation should be adopted and enforced, position to take them.” and that is the enormous saving o f flax hitherto • • • * wasted in the retting pits. By this means a A case of international importance is that of most valuable food for fattening animals could i 1 gc6m tiA mAC-t6ijinn the Italian ship Eolo conveying iron ore froin be yielded to the extent of 40,000 tons a year, (FOR THE &yUDENT8). Melilla to Glasgow. On June 15th she wad now worth about a million of "money. This *Oo cuipeAft peApAO nA police poirfi £iorAn fired on by a* German submarine off Kinsale method has worked so well that the farmers in Head. The crew abandoned her and she was O t-Oingpig, t)A»crit4 Ap 6AtAtiAn, Agup 6 VS Dunmanway and Carrigtwohill have trebled the gAbAit cp6 Ci It OpgtAin ap a beAtAC AbAile so afterwards brought into Cork Harbour by the acreagc they have Contracted for on the same Mona Leen,' a Limerick vessel, the crew of terms as last year*. It has also been taken up CAtAip SAitibfn. ’Ha ‘OiAiti r
AN BAST CLARB ECHO be destroyed; you may force it to hide, but it Castletownroche Sinn Feiners (per --- +--- will show itself again at some-other time'and J. O’Sullivan) . ... 3 0 0 elsewhere. A clock struck three, but I still People of Kerbertstown (per Mar From early v morning tiny ripples of excite remained at the window, my eyes buried in the tin O’Dwyer) ... •... 2 15 0 ment had been breaking over the village of embers of the fire on the road. All the Villagers Kingsbridge Sympathisers 2 14 0 Riverstown—a little patch of drowsiness, of had gone home—it was only fitting that 1 A Few Leenane Friends (pter J. Mac sleeping beauty, in the South.* (I am not sLould stay and'learn my lesson. And as I Donnell) ... 2 12 6 native to the spot, but a‘ mere “ rester ” for sat there in the warm summer night I thought Maghera Branch I.N.L. (per Mr. the while, so I may. stamp it as beautiful with of East Clare, where Victory had sprung up • John Walsh) . ... 2 8 3 out being thought locally conceited). I felt from the soil of Love and Death, and there Castlegregory Sinn Fein Club 2 5 0 them fromythe moment of getting up, those stole into-'my heart with a calm, quiet, insist A Few Small Friends, 10 and 11 small ripples that banded themselves into ence, the words of the Master: “ Greater Love Hock St., Tralee 2 4 O ' waves as the day wore on. Workers were not than this no man hath. . v .” R. Williams, Kilmarnock 2 2 0 as close to their work as might have been ex J ohn F. L yons. P. H. Pearse Sinn Fein Club, pected of them by their masters; half-doors Portglasgow (per P. McCauley) 2 2 0 sang on their hinges more frequently and with Rathmore Sinn Fein Club (per T. a livelier note than usual; the gossip that fol SINN FBIN NATIONAL FUND. H. Crowley) 2 0 -0 lowed, on this song was more lengthy than on Dr. Grogan ...... 2 0 0 other days;, in all eyes shone the one query Already acknowledged ' £338 15 9 Sean MacDiarmada Sinn Fein Club, that all tongues uttered— “ Any news yet?” BrUree Sinn Fein Club (pea* E. Lavey (per S. MacGabhainn) ... 2* 0 0 * In the evening came those false couriers who Horgan) ... • ...... 55 0 0 Beann Eadair ... 2 0 0 are myriads strong in a village above all. other Tipperary Sinn Fein Club (per P. J. Ballybrophy Sinn Feiners (per Sean places, messengers whose eyes were lighted in Moloney ...... 2 . 30 0 0 0 Cleirig) ...... 2 0 0 proportion to the figures that burned behind Ilospital Sinn Fein. Club (per Messrs K. Breen, Bath, Ballybrittas 2 0 0 them in the brain. Who first brought cer Burke and Walsh) ...... 20 0 0 “ Trebor Hslaw ” (2nd instlmt.) ... 2 0 0 tainty I would not l?e sure; I only remember Banagher Sinn Fein Club (per M. Myles Hawkshaw, R.DtC., West that as the Angelus was tolled the spirit of Synnott) . r.... . 16 0 0 port 2 0 0 anxious enquiry was dead, and rampant in our Lady Members, | Templeglantine Con Colbert Sinn Fein Club, Castle- midst was the joy that comes of triumph. From S. F. Club (per Sean -0 Sioth- finn, Donegal 1 13 6 groups gathered on the road, through the open chain). , ' .... -V' 12 0 0 Baltimore.Friends (per’J. Logan) 1 13 0 doors of cottages, neat' at hand, and from a* Mr. P. Cunningham, Omagh 10 0 0 Liberty Club, Enniscorthy (per M. distance, came the magic numbers of victory, Ci'aobh. Seamus 0 Conghaile, Glas Moran) 1 10 • 0 speeding on the air with an emphasis that rang gow (per Thos. Gillespie) 10 0 0 Dunmore (Galway) Sinn Fein Glub like steel: “ Two.! Nine! Seven! Five!” at Sinn Feiners and Irish Volunteers, (per M Ronan) 1 2 0 each hearing my heart echoed them: “ Two! Castleisland (per D. J. Griffin) 10 0 0 Cumann na mBan, Cali ire iveen (per Nine! Seven! Five!” Irish Volunteers, Cloona (per M.' Miss M. O’Biordan) ...... 1 1 0 As I went homewards the sky still held Devitt) ‘ ... . 10 0 0 Jack O’Sheehan, Galway Jail 1 1 0 plenty "of light (for- which England be Duagh Sinn Fein Club (per J. P. H. Pearse Sinn Fein Club (per thanked!). There was sufficient even to see~ Lyons, Duagh, Co. Kerry) 10 0 0 Charles Finegan, Ballinagh) . r. 1 1 * 0 me to bed. As I lay there the spirits of a G. S', and W . R. Sympathisers ... 10 0 0 Collected by Mrs. Hogan (per Miss thousand things past came and went in review Ballingarry Sinn Fein Club (per E'. O’Hanrahan) ... 1 0 6 before me; | they, were there in battalions, - — O’Grady) ...... 10 0 0 A few friends in Cburtown Harbour borne in. pn those last waves of soft light* Thomas Fitzpatrick, Ballinagh, Co. (per C. M.) ... 1 0 6 that rolled through the window; for it is in Cavan ... | ... 10 0 0 Wm. Kinchella, Kilkenny 1 0 0 such light that, the'' spirits of things hover very Charles Fitzpatrick, Doi ... 10 0 ,.0 Cove Irish Volunteers 1 0 0 near, and it is the hour when one may steal Carrickedmond (S.-Longford) Sinn [A long list of subscriptions is unavoidably softly on them and gently capture them un Fein Club (per Rev. J /J . Casey, crushed out this week. Next week-we shall awares. C.C.)~ ...... 9 0 0 1 endeavour to print a complete list.] Ah ! those spirits! how many! how different! Broadford Sinn Fein Club 8 0 0 I watched them all go by: pale spirits whose P. Mac Diarmada, Carlow 8 0 0 Illustrated Advertisements, Fashion Plates, Pictorial hearts had been broken by too great a Love ; Castletownbere Sinn Fein Club ... 8 0 0 Cards, Illuminated Addresses, Cartoons, Frontispieoes, red ‘spirits with glowing swords; the spirits of Collected by Miss Bridie Whelan, Book Covers, Eto., General Design, Poetic or Literary little children who'had bees robbed of their Carlow ...... 7 0 0 Matter Suitably Illustrated. fathers; Alas ! poor ghosts ! It was •all of a iuiciieton omn eixf v/Wd (Jper Jotiii* m . b . -A largi* tupniv off the .Casement portrait is piece, my vision, and sadness was its l e i t available'. Beautifully printed on Thick Art Paper Brady) ... “ ..: 6 T 0 (10 inches by 8), 3d. Postcards, id. Postage extra. motif.” In on the shafts of soft light had Rathkeale Sinn Fein Club (per E. ' Special Terms to Newsagents, eto. come thoughts too big for me, thoughts laden J. Whelan), 2nd instalment 6 0 0 with too great a sorrow. What was the mean Kells Sinn Fein, Hurling and Foot ing of everything, of anything ? I began to ball .Clubs (per J. Morris) 5 10 0 harangue myself from the bottom. Why did Mountcollins Sinn Fein Club (per I not feed, like others, on the eternal present, Michael Kerins) ...... 5 10 0 especially when the dish was* nothing less than Ballysteen Sinn Fein Club (per D. victory ? Why was -I not like one of _thfe in Naughton, D.C.) 5 5 0 dividuals in those groups I had met on the Calry Sinn Fein Club (per R. B. road? I was thinking backwards. J was a Henderson) - ... . 5 1 0 queer, perverted fellow. I was out of it, and Askeaton- Sinn Fein Club (per Rev. I had better go to sleep...... D. F. Fitzgerald, C.C.) ... 5 0 0 At first I was not sure. Then I heard the “ Shamrock” (2nd sub.) 5 0 0 sound a second time. Voices? Yes, away Rathkeale Sinn Fein Club (per E. there south on the road. I listened in the dark J. Whelan) ... 5 0 0 ness which had slyly stolen all over my room; Millstreet Friends (per J. McDonagh] 5 0 0 there Quiet, yet Central, for Business or Pleasure: turns “ her back towards Britain, her face to the"Wcst.” And this is the message she reads FLEMING’S HOTEL, in the West—the message of President Wilson 32 CARDINER’S PLACE, DUBLIN. to the Senate of the United States:— P. H. Pearse's Works Two minutes’ walk from Gardiner St. Chapel or trams “ The equality of nations, upon which SELECT MODERATE. CONVENIENT. peace must t)e founded if it is to last, must P. H. Pearse’s Works > 1st volume) be equality of lights. The guarantees to containing Plays, Poems and Stor lish)., price 7/6, by post 7/11. 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Verses in Bpo mac a }} peis i Se^n to the Peace Conference is through the repudi the simplest of Irish, an J rWiizbiful pi 65 0 by Micheal O Riada. bj post 1 i- ation of the title of an English Parliament All literary communications should be addrested to. to bind her by its laws, as Roscommon, Long the Editor. ford,-and, most magnificently, East Clare, have All business communications to the Manager. W H E L A N & SON 8 Harcourfc St., Dublin. repudiated that title. For Subscription and Advertising Rates, ee« p. 8. “ We are governed by foreigners, and for THE SINN FEIN 8H0P, eigners make our laws, for were our hundred 17 Upper Ormond Quay, Dubiin. members incorruptible and unanimous they could not prevail against. 560 British mem NATIONALITY. bers ” — so said Dahiel O’Connell'80 years ago, T73" heating tui*cn of and failed to follow his own wisdom. But G ; &80L !;<8tanlly ban- Ireland has learned the lesson now— the lesson G 1 B S O L Ith23 the agonising ir- SATURDAY, JULY 21st, 1917. r'faiton of long-standing that it is not by admitting the right of English Efcin troubfa, and e n t The Great Irish ity oures Eczema, Ring authority, but by denying it in face of the worm, Piles,Sores, Cuts, world that Irish authority is to be restored in Wounds, Burns, eto. EAST CLARE Skin Remedy. Ireland. It is ten years ago since we wrote:— direot (poet fre6) from the " Clare Lane, Dublin. The magnitude of the victory in East Clare Once upon a time it was the wooden walls DON’ T PAY INCOME TAX has dismayed the enemies of the Irish Nation. of England, and badly we fared with those Befor# Consulting Me. Repayment* and Abfi!e?«enti The mission of the renegade O’Connor, whom same walls. Now it is the paper walls of Effected. Forms Filled. Exp«rt Work. the English Government >sent to Washington Englafld, and with them we fare a thousand JOSEPH M2CD0HACH to intrigue against the liberties of his country, times worse. For the English have built a (Late inland Revenue and ExoIm), has been blasted; the Partitionist Conspiracy wall of paper around this island, and upon 88 MOYNE ROAD, DU3L1H, is dead,, and the insolent Unionist Swash the inside they have written their- opinion IRISH COAL I cannot supply yet (owing to want of bucklers who only the other day were breath of the outside world, and upon the outside Railway facilities), but Bright and Good Lasting ing threats to march their Covenanters “ from they have written their opinion of us. And HOUSE COAl an d SLACK Belfast to Cork,” across the presumably bowed we on the inside read and believe and the at Lowest Prices I can. necks of the Irish people, are tuning their unprejudiced foreigner on the outside does A. S. GLARKIN, Coal Mercian. 208 Gt. Brunswick St. tongues to a language of peace and goodwill. the same. And hence an estrangement Special Quotatlon BNFR ANCHISEMENT AND THB m Ireland forced Catholic Emancipation, pro per cent, oi its total tax contribution of ceeded to take his place in an English Parlia £16,311,000, and its direct taxation 34 per "MBMBBR FOR IRELAND.” ment, he committed a national blunder which cent. England’s total tax contribution is we are now only just beginning to repudiate. stated at £243,115,000, of which £97/442,000, There is no hint that until that election the or 40 per cent., is by food and drink (indirect) On June 24th at a large Convention held in Irish Nation had taken any interest in What taxes, and £146,673,000, or 60 per cent., by Mullingar the constituents of Westmeath called were really English elections. The only Par direct taxation. It is thus seen at a glance upon their two members to repudiate the liament in which the Irish Nation had been how inequitable is Ireland’s taxation: its food English Parliament. There was an important concerned was the Patriot Parliament of 1689. and drink should not produce proportionately .distinction in the nature of the summons to Grattan’s Parliament was a Parliament of the more revenue to the Government than Eng each of the two. While Sir Walter Nugent, Ascendancy, into which the -intrusion of the land’s does: but whereas only 40 per cent, of the “ representative ” for S. Westmeath, was ancient nation would have been regarded with England’s contribution is.taken from food and invited to retire into private life, in order that horror. The grant of the Forty Shilling drink, 66 per cent of Ireland’s is so taken. a more virile and truer type of Nationalist Franchise in 1796 £ave to a verv small portion This is, of course# a gross violation of the might take his place, the representative for N; of the nation a voting right. That right was Treaty of Union, 1800 (and extorted treaties Westmeath, Laurence Ginnell, was summoned never available in a Parliament sitting on Irish are just as binding on the extorting Power as to withdraw fronv Westminster and to take his soil; but even had it been, such Parliaments voluntary treaties); because that treaty lays place and work in the Nation. Needless to were foreign to the Nation’s elder polity, and down fundamentally that the Irish taxpayer say, Sir Walter Nugent, in receipt of a monthly were not regarded as any part of the national as a whole must never be treated worse pro cheque from the English Government,' very expression. Not being part of the Nation’s portionately than the English taxpayer. S " > naturally preferred profit to honesty and n'eg- own political thought—being, as they were, The injustice becomes all the more glaring lected the summons. However, ‘ ‘ the gods the product of another nation’s 'idea of a when it is considered that, were Ireland not wait long, but when they strike they strike -Polity, imported and implanted—the Irish oppressed industrially and its workers allowed exceeding hard.” On the other liana, Laur people simply neglected them. In the election to earn more, Irishmen would inevitably both ence Ginnell at once heeded his summons, and that took place a few years after the Union it eat and drink more, and thus pay more of the displayed the distinction (a somewhat import does not appear that any of the Forty Shilling food tax. The Irish labourer has frequently ant distinction!) between “ representatives” voters troubled to exercise their right. It ii’ been refused work, even in his own country, and “ unrepresentatives. ’ » Last Sunday, the was O’Connell who taught them and aroused I on the ground of bodily inefficiency resulting l&th July, he summoned a large meeting at them to use the alien machinery. And the ! from want of food. This is not altogether Mullingar, at which he moved the following Nation became so deeply stirred by the new what England desires. If England oould in resolution:— • feeling of power, that Catholic Emancipation vent a special food that would nourish Irish “ That we*deny the right of affy nation to was granted—not by Parliamentary action, bodies without stimulating Irish brains, ft suppress by military might the sovereignty but by a threat of force would soon have its idea] Irish subject. Un>* of Ireland., That we affirm our determin •Then O’Connell made the great mistake. Had fortunately, food goes to th£ head as well as ation to declare and maintain that sovereign- he used the representative capacity he won to to the limbs, and a man who is well fed is - ty at all times before the world. That inas make his.Council of Three Hundred the As enabled not only to do hard labour—which is much as the Nation’s honour, contentment, sembly of Ireland, nothing could have stopped useful—but also to- think—which is awkward. and prosperity are involved in the re-estab- the onward march of the Nation. But he went However, if Irishmen got what they should lishment of its freedom, there cannot be, to the English Parliament, and so cancelled have in the way of nourishment, the figures and there ought not to be,, peace within the the separate identity of Ireland that it lay in would probably show the injustice of the country until that freedom is first secured. his power to establish. ~ His acts there be method on which Ireland is taxed in an even That the alien and militarist rule by which came corrupt, as the acts of his successors stronger light than at present: the proportion the country is' held in subjection must be there have been corrupt. But that was in of tax “ contribution assigned to its food broken; and that we jud^e the present time, cidental. .The real and permanent error was ccnsumption would be far more than 66 per when the rights of small nations to freedom that he disfranchised the separate national cent, of the whole, perhaps 80 per cent, or more. and security are universally proposed, to be identity of the Irish Nation—the Nation that singularly meet for the ancient Nation of had not been committed to Grattan’s Parlia It takes figures to show this up properly. If Ireland to assume • these inalienable attri ment, and the rights of which, therefore, had Ireland were now treated equitably with Eng butes of its Nationhood.” not actually been affected by the Union—by land, as the violated treaty of 1800 demands, making its representation part of the repre its food and drink tax would be, like.Eng Having mov'ed that resolution, he called sentation of, as it were, a larger England. land’s,-only 40 per ceut. of the whole. If the upon the meeting to declare whether he should That error has now been cancelled. It was direct taxation of England’s superfluous wealth or should not finally withdraw from the Eng- cancelled by N. Roscommon, by S. Longford, to the extent of £145,673,000 be accompanied ■ lish Parliament and repudiate its right to legis- by E.Clare. These things rightly neglected the (in. 1915-16) by an indirect taxation operating ■ late Tor’ Ireland i The gTe&at assemblage replied ea'rly blunder. They did not deliberately re through its mere human necessity to the ex at once, calling upon him to “ .Withdraw.” call- it; they did not actually 'smudge it out. tent of £97,442,000, then a direct taxation of There, thus only remains the final act by which The recalling of the man who of late years has Ireland’s exuberance in 1916-16 to the extent Laurence Ginnell will appear at Westminstei earned .the title of “ The Member for Ireland ” of £5,478,000 should be accompanied by an to make Ireland’s demand for independence, does what those other acts could not do. It indirect taxation of its poor humanity to no and on its rejection finally and absolutely to re deliberately revokes -the first mistake. Clumsy greater an extent than £3,664,000. There is nounce a “ foreign and hostile Parliament.” or crafty thinkers speak of it as disfranchis no escaping from this logic, nor from the The act is historic, and significant—more sig ing N. Westmeath. Actually and truly the mathematical exactitude of this proportion:— nificant in some ways even than the results of w ithdrawal of Laurence Ginnell, taken to England’s Taxes. N. Roscommon, S. Longford and E. Clare: gether with the return Of Count Plunkett, .Like these other acts of the nation, the im Jo$epK McGuinness, and Eamonn De Valera, Direct £145,673,000 pulse came directly from the people. It was means that the Irish Nation is setting about to Indirect £97,442,000 not a machined result; nor did it require enfranchise its separate estate. And it is on Ireland’s Taxes. prompting or urging. Moreover, it was the the basis of that .separate estate that Ireland withdrawal of a man to .whom the people of Direct £5,478,000 will appeal to the Peace Conference of the * Indirect £3,664,000 ‘Ireland had in their affection given the re Nations for the recognition and establishment markable title of ■ The Member for Ireland.” of .its Sovereign and Independent Nationhood. I£ this be true, a6 it undoubtedly is, then .Alone in an assembly of 670, he had, in the # D a b r e l l F i g g i s . Ireland’s total taxation (direct and indirect) teeth of hatred and derision, upheld the hon lor 1915-16 should figure out at no more than our of Ireland,' a lone and distinctive voice; —— ♦>------£9,142,000. No honest Unionist, to whom while the rest of the so-called Irish members the violation of treaties is not a matter of in of that assembly pulled the tails of Ministers’ difference, could consent to Ireland’s paying coats to get jobs for relatives and supporters, HOW IRELAND IS TAXED more than £9,142,000 for the year in question, .and helped an Empire to oppress the world, —— as it is fair and equitable contribution under Ireland included. * Few names have been as Two reasons make it necessary to focus at the stress of war .taxation. Instead of that execrated in England in our day as.the name tention on our indirect taxation. The first Irishmen were both deprived of proper food •oi Laurence Ginnell;-and it requires moral is, that all such taxation is devised to elude and drink and ms}de to pay £16,311,000, or ..courage of a very -high order to live through attention; and the second, that this particulai £7,169,000 beyond what wgts just. Thpse such execration while steadfastly upholding taxation is designed to make us subscribe seven millions sterling were robbed from Ire the flag.* The title had been nobly earned; against our will to the maintenance of foreign land last year in violation of the Act of Union. and it had been spontaneously accorded by one rule in our country. I t keeps us in ignorance. This 8till goes on. We each surrender, of those sure instincts with which a people It is commonly said that if horses knew their under the constraint of cruel necessity, a frac describe by a pet-name r. relation which .foi power it would be impossible to man -to keep tion of the just property of the Irish, nation them has become full of meaning. It was not them in a state of servitude. In human affairs every time we now drink a cup of tea (tax 1/- .Ginnell the challenger of. the fraud of the money is power/ but a power useless to a sub a lb,), or coffee (tax 6d. a lb.) or cocoa (4Jd. a Party Funds that was remembered, nor Gin ject race that does not know .how to apply it to lb.), which we probably sweeten with sugar nell o f the hazel-wand, who sought to restore its own, not its conqueror’s purposes. The (tax lid . a lb.), or accompany with bread and the land of Ireland to the Irish Nation by weapon of its freedom is its available monetary margarine (tax as “ cocoa butter” or “ copra” Lieaking the. hold of the capitalist grazing- surplus. Without this, it is like the starved 4^d. a lb.). Every time we partake of any rancher; but Ginnell who upheld the distinc animal-—too weak to kick. It can only drag food prepared with sugar, sweet’ dish of any tive right and honour of the whole nation in'a on an existence that does not deserve to be sort, jam, marmalade, or confectionery, the lone and bitter war against that nation’s op dignified with the name of life. That is sugar present is taxed at the above rate. A pressor.- The local things were forgotten and the way we are in Ireland. barmbrack or bun adds the dried fruit tax il&d. the National fact remembered when people be According to the latest Government state a lb.). Our poorer people are great patrons of gan to speak of Laurence Ginnell as “ The ment on the subject qf Irish, taxation, Return 3V estle’s Swiss milk for their children, as they Member for Ireland.” Therefore, when the of Revenue and. Expenditure (England, Scot can afford it better than fresh milk, and it makes people on their "own initiative withdrew from land and Ireland), issued by the Treasury 16th cakes, puddings, etc.,- without the addition of the English Parliament a man whose work August, 1916, Ireland * contributed ” in 1915- sugar: . they do not elude the sugar tax: there had earned him such a name, they did a 1916 by indirect taxation of food and drink Nestle’ s and similar sweetened milks, home or vqpy significant thing, which is worth while it cannot refrain from using £10,833,000, and foreign, pay lid . a lb. on the sugar present in examining a little. ,. by direct taxation (Estate. Duties, Stamp Duty them. If, when weak or faint, we venture to When Daniel O’Connell in 1829 won the on business transactions, Income Tax, etc.) drink a glass of fairly matured whiskey or Clare election, and, having by the threat of war £5,478,000. Its indirect taxation is thus 66 other spirits we pay an excise duty of 2fd. 6 NATIONALITY. Saturday, July 21st, 1917.. per glass, the equivalent of -14/9 on the proof ANNOUNCEMENTS. ANNOUNCEMENTS. gallon; and if we drink an inferior sort we pay a fraction under 3d. a glass tax (15/9 a gal.), tiA ffAtinA sAomse. ^ if the whiskey is less than three years old, and a fraction o f over.3d. a glass tax if the Aeni’oeACc rh6n whiskey is less 'than Ttwo years old. If we IN ST. ENDA’S, OAKLEY ROAD buy an ounce of tobacco to smoke and stave (Kindly granted by Mrs. Pearse), Oireachtas ofi hunger we probably pay 9d. for it, but On Sunday, July 29th. of that Td. is excise duty, which goes to. the FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS LATER. Government, while the Irish tobacconist—the tobacco manufacture is, of course, a great Irish industry—gets 2d.! The excise duty Aem’oeACc rhon on manufactured tobacco is .now 9/4 a lb*, In CASTLEPOLLARD, Sunday, July 22nd. Sunday, August 5th, to Friday, 10th. which 'makes 7d. an ounco» or about ^d. a Commencing 1.35 p.m. (Irish Time). pipefull. Every tinlfe an Irishman lights his The Opening Address will be delivered by pipe he “ contributes-” £d.*to the Government, P IP E R S ’ BA N D S, A. GRIFFITH, Esq. to assist it in governing him against his con HURLING MATCH, THE GLEE SINGERS ALIVE, ALIVE 01 sent.. If he drinks a'pint of ale or stout GRAND CONCERTS. (excise duty 2.4/- per barrel of 36 gals.; i.e., Several Bands will attend. 8d. a gal. or 2d. a quart) he “ contributes ’ The National Education Fund and Gaelic League will SOLO SINGING, CHOIR and VIOLIN benefit by proceeds. ld i to the sajne detestable object, over which COMPETITIONS. DANCING CHAM most o f the nations of the world/ are now Admission : : : • 1 /-and 6d. fighting. PIONSHIP. 3 ORATORY, RECITATION In short, if the man who earns little were I Alt tl4irij3n £6in O&pTf. and STORY TELLING. DRAMAS BY io reckon up his spendings, he would be as -An 5aet)luinn .aOfi. DISTINGUISHED AMATEURS. HOME tonished to find to what an extent his food is made dear for him by politicians who have INDUSTRIES EXHIBITION, dinned his ears for ages with such dishonest GAELS I LbOK OUT FOR cries as “ A Free'Breakfast Table!” “ Hands Season Ticket, 10/-. off'the people’s F ood !” and so on. Accord-1 A Real Irish-Ireland Day ing to the British Board of Trade (in 1907)1 .A.dmission to Reception of Ard Fheis Delegates-' the average working class family in England! IN CLONAKILTY, spent about 22/6 a week in food, of which 9d.| Three Sbillings. On S U N D A Y , A U G U S T 12th, 1917. " went in taxes 'thus-tea, 3Jd.coffee andl cocoa, i d . ; sugar, 2£d.; jam, l f d . ; dried fruits, SPEND YOUR HOLIDAYS IN WATER ^d. To this was added the taxation for. stimu t3ev6 Ceol, tlmnce Agur -Arhjiiin 50 leo|t 4541 nn. lants and narcoticsbeer (3 quarts), l^d. jl FORD. spirits (3 glasses), 6£d.; tobacco (3 ounces),I PARTICULARS LATER. ,<3£d. Total taxation of the family’s food and PILGRIMS TO THE REEK. GOOD MORNINGI HATS ONII! drink, 1/11 per week, or £4 19s. 8d. per year. The quantities of taxed groceries taken P’s & C’s , REMEMBER seemed to be:— tea, Jib coffee or cocoa,„ Jib.; .; . ~FRED LEO begs to announce that as Mrs. sugar, 41bs.; jam,, lib .; currants and raisins, f Sheehan has decided to conclude the Tour on peis rh tn 5 e o |lb. At the present. rates of taxation such July 22nd, he intends to continue running the Opens in Westport on July 30th, 1917. consumption would entail taxation as follows: Company, Consisting of— 1.—Carroll Malone, Dublin’s Youngest Tenor (late of —Jib. tea, 6d.; Jib. cocoa, 2Jd;. (coffee would -Don’t Miss be the same as tea); 41bs. sugar, 6d.; {lb. Frongoch and Stafford). 2.— Miss Sheehan, Mezzo-Soprano and Pianist. SENIOR HANDBALL TOURNAMENT. dried fruit, £ d.; 3 quarts beer, 6 d .; 3 glasses 3.—Miss Flossie Dene, Soubrette and Dancer. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, PIPERS’ BANDS, spirits (cheap), 9d..; 3 ozs. tobacco, 1/9; total 4.—Fred Leo (the Originator of the P.s and C’s). taxes per family per week, 4/2J; per year, 5.—P. J. O’Brien, Advance Manager. WAR PIPES, ETC. Come to see £10 10s. 5d. The high wages in England Five of the Original P's and C’s who were at new, as compared with 1907, may enable the Loughrea. THE BOYS OF THE WEST. English workingman to consume and pay in N.B.—H FRED LEO, am the originator of the P’s and C’ s, having produced same^in 1912, later in part For particulars apply-to:—1.^- taxatipn iorrfar. more than the above, and to nership with Jack SHeehan. ' I also supplied the do itMu ease and comfort. But how many Comedy. 6^monn m.&5 ptonn^in, families infl Ireland are there reared on a Look out for New Items, including the funniest of 6 tinT mAC Mmt), father’s earnings of 15/- to 16/- a week, not Sketches— Tlun.dit'i OtiOitA.6. to think of spending 22/6 on food alone! They " Wanted .a War Bonus,” Written by Frank O’Donnell, Killarney (Ireland’s are first starved and then robbed of the little, coming writer). “ WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF— M they have got. I want a good Soprano and Baritone, start at once; Anything Else but The good salary and, long tour. Write— Letters and telegrams of congratulation on the F R E D L E O , East Clare victory have reached us from Belcoo Sinn Post Offloe, KENMARE. Fein Club, An Crathach, Sagart, “ Amicos,” Black- DrumshanbOiFels moor; Goresbridge Sinn Fein Club, Clydebank, Por- * Which will be held on tadown, Dumbarton, Moynalty Sinn Fein Club, Mass DROGHEDA NATIONAL CLUB. meeting at Westport, Nurses Rosingrave and Morgan, Sunday, July 22nd Cork, Glasgow Cumann na mBan, Tomas MacCurtin, Cork f Wm. Biggar, Belfast: People of Whitechurch, A RECEPTION Commencing at Clock Sharp (Old Time}, Kilgarvan Sinn Femers, Milltown,. Galway; Gaels or Ballymote, O’Rahilly G.F.C., Dundalk; Mairef Ni IN HONOUR OF THE RELEASED LOUTH VOLUN Competitions in Irish History, Dancing, Irish Con Chumhail and family, Ballyferriter. Doon Irish Volun TEER PRISONERS versation, Instrumental Music, and several interesting. teers, Drumbaragh -Sinn Fein Club. Mullinabreene Industrial Competitions. Sinn Fern Club, Manchester, Birmingham Irish Girls, Will be Held in MAYORALTY HOUSE, DROGHEDA •War Pipes Competition, open to Connacht; also two* Crossmolina Sinn Feiners, Glasgow Irish Volunteers, On Sunday, July 22n3, at 9 p.m. other Competitions in Instrumental Music. Lismore Sinn Fein Club, Tom Clarke Club, Glasgow; ^rish Conversation, etc., open to Connacht Native; Kildorrery, Ballybrophy Sinn Feiners, Roger Case Speakers. ment Sinn Fein Club, Magherafelt; Cavan Sinn Fein Tickets (Gents 5/-, Ladies 3/-) may be obtained from Dancing Confined to Counties Roscommon and Leitrim.. Club, Urlingford Sinn Fein Club, Boys of Wexfond at JOSEPH CARR, Hon. Sec., For Syllabus apply to Secretaries— -•Ring College. P. MacHugh, London,.; Oldcastle Sinn SEAN O CINNEIDE, Feiners, Tullow Sinn Feiners, Castlepojlard Sinn Blaok Bull, DROGHEDA. MICHEAL S. Mag. CONAFRAOIC. Feiners, Gaels of Cove, People of Ballinagh, Cavan; Crossna (Tom Clarke) Sinn Fein Club, Inniskeen DRUIM-8EAN-BQ, Co. LnVTRODROMA. National Club, Monaghan; Waterford City Sinn Fein Club, Cork Sinn Fein'Executive, Louth National Club, colAisce An ’OAinsm LOOK OUT FOR THE GRAND Granny, Co. Clare.; Mullo, Mayo; People of Askeaton (Dingle Irish College). and Ballysteen, Wolfhill; Leix; Carlow Nationalists, FEIS Bantry Sinn Feiners, Herbertstown Sinn Fein Club, 1917. Limerick; Dungarvan Sinn Fein Club, Clondrohid. Sessions, To be Held at BALLYLANDER8 r (We regret it is impossible for us to print in full Sunday, July 22nd, 1917. the messages received). First Term.—July 2nd to July 28th. * w • * Second Term.—July 30th to September 1st. Addresses will be delivered by . On Sunday, July 1st, the day’s Masses in the Cathe Classes to Suit all Students. EOIN MacNEILL, EAMONN DE VALERA,, dral, Waterford, were offered up for Thomas Francis and Others. Meagher, being the 50th anniversary of his death. The members of the Thomas Francis Meagher Sinn 8PECIAL CLAS8ES FOR BEGJNNER8 and A PIPERS’ BAND WILL ATTEND. Fein dub, numbering 180, attended the 11 o’clock BI-LINGUAL TEACHERS. Competitions in Singing, Danoing, Recitation, Violin,. Mass in a body. Eto., Eto. football—Bally landers v. Mitchelstown. NEW CHURCH PORTSTEWART. Unusual Terms to all Students attending College. Fo nSaefllutnn Stan. The beautiful New Carpets and Furnishings for Altars were supplied by For Prospectus, etc., write to :-r- .* J. Connolly &* Co. P^T)TtA15 <5 COtlCOR’OA, ORahilly Sinn Fein C l u h 59 Upper Arthur Street, Belfast. 1lun<\it>e ColAirce An t)Aingin, (NORTH CITY OF DUBLIN). *a3i.iiNans s3j.vwij.s3 Dingle, Co. Kerry. A MEETING for the purpose of enrolling, members to participate in furtherance of the De Valera Badges, Brooche^ Sinn Fein Novelties aims and objects of- Sinn Fein, and for the After East Clare. of all kinds, and at Cheap Popular Prices (Supplied solidifying of the movement, will be held in .to Trade Only). Send 1/3 for Special Sample Offer, Value 2/6. gg T H E B A N B A H A L L , General Printers, Publishers. Phone Or* Tuesday, 24th July, at 8 o’clock, p.m.. Wholesale Newsagents and THE GAELIC PRESS, Stationers, 30 Up. LiffeySt., Dcblin.' 7 8 SEAN T. Q’KELLY will preside. Saturday, July 21st, 1917. NATIONALITY. 7 SINN FEIN. ACCURACY. Prepaid Advertisements. Accuracy in a watch i3 of more importance than appearance. We do not recommend Bocallod Lennon, D.C.; Treas. C. Gallen, Sec. pro tem. ‘ cheap” watches, because accuracy ia often J . S. O Gallachobhair, 13.A .; Midleton, J. J. O’Shea sacrificed to appearance. For really dependable gANBA PHYSICAL CULTURE CLUB__ Raffle for Pres., Sec. P. Stanton, Treas. J. Brady; Mount Col- • Thatches—good in appearance and workmanship, Jins (Limerick), Chairman J. Reidy, Vice- Pike-heads postponed until July 28tli to facili and'moderate in price—came to :: :: tate retfurn of duplicates. Result published in Chairman D. Lane, Secs. J. 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