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ETERNAL RIDDLE OF IRELAND
HALLUCINATIONS OF
THE PEOPLE
POLITICS ARE OPPOSED TO
· PROSPERITY
(By Senator O. Gogarty)
jexistent; but it is the tradition TF the world were run by Reason it be accepted for 32.
Were this blaff to be called,
as well as for the
that the man who has done moder- would be canalised like Mars, and ately well is paid the same en- we should be like figures in a book demand for the "Gaelic isles of comiams and lavish lip service as of Euclid with "angles at the base," the Hebrides those which precede the departure and bound on shortest distances. moon (since the cow jumped over of the man who really deserves But, illogically, it is not: it is full it, and our cattle are second to of curves and contradictions, ab-none) would be made in order to
them
cians.
It is an amiable tradition and surdities, deceptions and ambigui- stave off the awful day of judgment
of the leaders by those led. does nobody any particular harm. ties, and long are there windings.
That is why it is run by politi-| * The worst thing that can happen But the public of Hong Kong is
to a politician is to be found out. fortunate in being able to expressį
Evidently Providence believes in The inculcation of pauperism ás its appreciation of the services of
homoeopathy. Desperate politicians the chief character of the Patriot the retiring Governor without a require desperate conditions. This made the Irish people patient with misgivings that it is descending will explain in some measure the the politicians who failed to double fulsomeness which means nothing state of affairs in many places and their country's revenue at Ottawa. For there is a solid record of relieve me of that Irish convention This self-scourging, this charac something accomplished, something which would elucidate the Present teristic, which slaves share whose done, behind the five years' tenure by pre-historic history.
back is itchy for the lash,"enables
of the Governorship by Sir William So I need not go back more than the present Government to keep in Peel. His period of office has seen 300 years to account for the two power, even though the people are many notable changes of direct outstanding hallucinations of the paying the Land Annuities (the in- value to the services of the Colony Irish People. The first that a Re-terest on moneys borrowed to buy and to the general public. His Ex- public is frear or better than ajout the lands of Ireland from the cellency has not been afraid to put Monarchy: the second that the landlords and give them to those This foot down when necessary, and English are a nation of humbugs who never were allowed "to own
further, he has in one or two not and hypocrites.
them even from pre-historic times), able instances helped forward by
his three times over.. - the impetus of his own energy theị secretary Milton, wrote: bringing to fruition of public works of direct and lasting value to Against the throme and monarchy of spite their stage enemy, "Tohn
China Mail have had at least a couple of the commanity at large.
Vale
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When Oliver Cromwell, as
God
with ambitious aim
Raised impious war
Thus it is that they are prepared. to do themselves treble damage to
BallTM Actually, John Bull is in ze ceipt of more tribute from a walnu
Jseven y million gallons were A FEW of these services may be conservative, loyal and regal peo-had before."
of the severe re-
cried out to bej least some im
in Ireland, he shocked the messing Irish Government than he ever
Established On Negations: Next to a Republic, the one
Senator Gogarty, Irish doctor, poet, politician, and wit, was an athletic and Rugby player of dis- tinction in his youth. Also 3
swinner. Was ctice captured by Iregulars, taken to the Liffer, and threatened with shooting. Es caped and swam over the river. When Dr. F. Aken, LFS. Minis- ter of Defence, called him “e lazy body," Senator Gogarty challenged him to athletic contest 'în earth, air, or water.
there is
Hong Kong. Friday, May 17, 1935. supply was provided no less than
consumed. The old arrange briefly touched upon. There ple in Europe. Hardly had they ments could not have coped with seems to us to be more than ordin-recovered from devastations in the the demand at all, and even the ary significance in the fact that the name of the Queen when they ware thing which the present Govern Although the scientific his-Present reservoirs have been Budget speech read in the Legisla confronted with much worse fright-ment would be unable to deal with. tive Council in October 1931 reveal-fulness by a king-murderer in the seemingly would be prosperity. It torian, should such a rara aris severely taxed.
ed a defcit of $2,299,096, while on name of what? Milton signed it in is established on negations fever undertake to write the tale
Apart from the domestic pro- September 13, 1934, it was possible Latin of the Res publica Angliae.
This would be incredible were it of Hong Kong, would take the gress, which is the part of 3
not for the fact that some hundreds various movements and institu-Governor's work which takes to announce a surplus of $12,501, the English Republic.
of thousands of the Irish people do. tions separately, and give each a most of his energy, it is natural 259. This improvement, it is true,
not like their country because it is: chapter, there is a sense in which to look round the political scene would no doubt have been brought
not Brooklyn, Boston, or Philadel it is appropriate to subdivide the in this Far Eastern world which about in any case by the natural
phia. They consider it a prison be record according to the Governor is big enough to have life of consequences
cause they are no longer able to- ships; and in that sense one of its own, vigorous and changeful, trenchment which
emigrate into a country with the our periods may be said to clase scarcely realised by the part of introduced, or at
highest standards of living in the to-day when the Empress of the world from which most of us provement in the financial position
world. So far from emigration Japan carries away Sir Williamcome, and to speculate whether of the Colony must have been dis-
from, say, a 20 acre farm (and 80- Peel. Whatever weight must belwe are drifting towards the closed when the Inevitable cuts dis-breakers or have found a channel were made. But we feel sure that
per cent, of the holdings in Ireland given to his own modest
are less than 40 acres) being a claimers of Tuesday afternoon into fair water. When His Sir William's memorandum to the there can be no doubt of the Excellency arrived the star of M. Retrenchment Committee ordering
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desired that those who cannot get painstaking care with which he Borodin had already set, and the drastic cuts in the personnel of the
out care little what the fate of their has controlled the finances and Bolshevist effervescence was in a Civil Service, firstly, gave the driv Judge of the effect of regicide on SPECIAL OFFERS
the sympathy with which he has fair way to be no more than a ing power for that retrenchment to a people who held firmly to their Frison may be
From thousands of these discon- was belief on the divinity that doth per sq. ft. $105 helped all the good causes. The memory so far as South China be exercised, and secondly,
tents the Irish Republican army is "strong" man, in the sense of a was concerned. Nothing re-largely instrumental in effecting hedge a King. And here was the Doz for $ 6.40
recruited: This army has, so Com Iran who goes his own way with-mained but anecdotes of the the remarkable improvement in the murderer of his Monarch goins munistic side of it goes, been large- Doz for $ 215
out consulting his neighbours straits to which Hong Kong had financial position which the figures around canting about God and spar- and assistants, is tumbled off his been reduced in a boyless" three years later revealed. A dif-ing neither woman nor infant. Is tapped by Mr. de Valera's “Case pedestal so far as the: English world. But that march of the ference of some $15,000,000 between it any wonder that the Irish wish-eat Brigade." But communities are concerned. It Japanese troops into Mukden the adverse and favourable balances ed England what that middle-class enough left amongst those who re
sist even the blandishments of seems to be a period when mis-started a chain of events of of the Colony's Budget in such a Englishman gave it a Republic?.
uniform to make a decided and dan- takes are easy to make and diff-which the end is not yet. Hong short space of time is no
The Politiciaus. Of Ireland -
gerous Communistic Party, "Already- cult to avoid. His Excellency has Kong did not escape scatheless, achievement, and His Excellency But if that be true, why do the the exchequer of the fattest coun- always chosen the middle of the and there were days when the deserves a large part of the credit Irish want a Republic for them try in Europe is running out road, and he leaves a number of nerves of all those who were in due to those who helped to accom-selves? To get the answer to this The reservoir of our livestocks: useful schemes well planned and responsible positions were
of plish it. begun, with all the conditions edge, more particularly during favourable for successful comple, the extraordinary Shanghai
Water Supply |tion.
incidents. Cool heads and
was also largely Sir William obvious preparedness brought was also largely Sir William us through with far less disorder than might easily have occurred force which helped to solve the Few of the men in power in Ire years to establish the cattle trade- form of the old Town Hall on his
of question of the Colony's water sup- life either at business or in the God's help (the voice is the voice of land to-day succeeded in privat as we know it to-day, but with arrival, and listened possibly bitterness
to leave a lasting memory plies, and it is tting that one of arts. Thus they began public life of Cromwell) it will not take with some anxiety to the long
Our period under review will list of things to be done which
with a resentment against Life in hundred years to kill that system.” general. PARTICULARLY would provide a programme for also be noteworthy for the deci- ten years at least. Some of the sion to tie our fortunes to bars
A statement such as this coming This explains why Irish politics from a failure in private and public been items have been delayed simply of silver that have not
are opposed to prosperity. The life would be amazing, were it not because it is not possible to do found to float too well in Two little boys were talking about people, too, tanght that a tight remembered that Ireland is politi- President Roosevelt. One of them. once; others troubled sea Quite possibly the My father thinks, he has belt and negations are the way to cally the largest open-air lunatic everything at await more flourishing trade; but new administration may recor- lot of good.
the Republic and “freedom,” asylum in Europe. it is really gratifying to count sider the silver policy, but it
The other boy replied: “Oh, I don't cept their politicians as their "own how many have been tackled must be admitted that so long know he hasn't, closed the schools dead selves," and endure priva- These were enumerated by Sir as we have to wait for decisions yet.".
tions in the present so that a re- Henry Pollock in the course of of statesmen who refuse to tell
public in the future will come with his farewell address, and there is us what they mean to do, neither
Lady: "Now, James, are you no need to review them. Most experience nor good intentions you've got your license, tax receipt
sure greater relief.
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insurance, driving test record, and ticians is to make them go about as
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question we must examine, not the was valuable enough to bring in as. people but their politicians. And annual income of about £14,000,000. the present politicans of the "Re-This has been deliberately ruined public represent less than half the by men, one of whom thanked God! population of the island.
"that it took about an hundred
had been allowed to hang fire for His Excellency came to us that you know all the stop lights gloomily as souls in a Rotarian reasons which do not seem to us from many years of work in the built-up to have been conclusive was the Malay States in accordance with supply of water, and His Excel the policy of Lord Passfeld lency's administration will alwho himself started life as a ways be coupled not only with clerk in the Colonial Office in the completion of the subsidiary London that the highest posts reservoirs but with the big un-in the gift of the Department dertaking at Shing Man. Noth should be reserved for those who ing could more clearly have de had made Colonial Administra monstrated the need for storage tion their life work. It is, as a jon a large scale than what hap matter of fact, a profession in
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bespeaks tolerance), in a state of
·Camerer “Yes, ma'am.”.
perpetual mourning for the future. Lady: "Then we will proceed at 7as if circumstances were forever miles an hour
against them.
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The Demogorgen Arises The shopper had reason to com- Thus it is that between people plein
"This is a small loaf for 15 and politicians, a strange Irisa cents, she said a 1031 for
"Well, you'll mos have so much to Demogorgon has arisen the pat- carry,” replied the shopkeeper, smil riot. The Plain Man" whose plainness becomes more important
pened last week. We were in itself; and is likely to give us gly, we be replied to than his manhood. A ghastly figure
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of intolerance and blind hate of England and without enough belief m a “republic" to demand a "show
dated with an influx of many men who know all the pitfalls
"You'll not have so much ||shapper. thousands of guests for the and how to avoid them The Comm Jubilee celebrations who were outlook for Hong Kong is not a bound to form their idea of vista of roses, roses all the way, may be. Hong Kong very largely from the but Hong Kong history has in In presenting the valedictory down provision made by us of so very its annals many ups and downs address, Sir Henry Pollock hap The pre-requisite: therefore, of important an element of comfort and there is no reason to suppily expressed the general good an Irish Republic is that it be u
an
Purveyors Of Bankruptcy From the first to the fifth century England had the best classical mas- ters in the world: Ireland never (Continued on Page 11)
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in those hot and strenuous days, pose that we are not entering wishes, with which we associate attainable. Thus, when it might the pack with his mecom One would think they must all on an upgrade, slow though it ourselves and our readers. The Ead for 26 counties, it will only