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.