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Asserting that the position in "Two lady clerks, enjoying The Minister of Health toki the Ireland to-day is graver than it cigarettes and reclining at saso | House of Commons recently that bas ever been before, and that, on a couple of chairs sach.” by ona mathod which has recent- despite all the measures and This was a description of Mr. by been brought to his notico a afforts of the Government, the Trevelyan Thompson, M.P-given|couple of workmen in Leeds country is on the verge of freval-to the Labour Exchange Inquiry "began two houses at 10.30 in the Intion and bloodshed, Mr. Horatio | Com-oittaa of a recent visit he|morning and were up to the first Bottomley-who expresses his paid to one of the Government floor joists by 230 in the after- own independent view in the Departments,
1,300. Dr. Addison described following article in the Sunday Mr. F. G. Bowers, Accountant-the system as “the doublə alad Pictorial,—makes a final appeal Genaral to the Ministry of Labour:| method," and said he proposed to for paste, and propounds his own | These ladies are no doubt among encourage it as much as possible. proposals to that end-
those to be discharged. (Laugh- The method can be seen in Poor Ireland! Poor Erin! Ailter.)
practice in the Meanwood dis- last "the Day" has come. We The Committee is inquiring into trict of Leeds by all who may be are, indeed, at the parting of the the cost and administration of the genuinely interested. It is a ways the one road leading to exchanges, and in bis evidence method that has been worked out Saparation, under a Republic, and Mr. Boweradisclosed the fact that by Mosars. William Airsy & Son, the other to Union under the the Ministry of Labour carries on who are adopting it in fulfilling ♣ British Bag. No longer can the ita duties in over 2,000 buildings contract into which they have decision be delayed. It is Now Mr. Bowars mentioned this as an entered with the Leeds Corpora ar Never unless we can find a illustration of the difficulty of tion to build 800 houses in the third ronte. Can we? Or are giving the actual cost of a specific district referred to. wo to reconquer Ireland by the Government service. sword?
They began the actual work of erection a month ago, and not- It is my present purpose to dis-
withstanding the rainy weather. cover tha: third road-in the land-British Ireland remaining, they bare practically complated hope that both of the sections as at present, under the Imperial two of the Ministry's type "A” into which the Irish people are at Parliament, with, bozavar, huuses, bave just roofed two more, present divided may be induced local Legislature of its own for and have canied twelve houses of to take it. A vain dream, as purely local purposes; and In- the type "B" up to the first floor doubt, but one well worth indulg-dependent Ireland having its owa joists. The plan involves certain ing in. Only the other day I was form of govemment, subject per- novelties of organisation to which talking, on the Terrace of the haps to the provision that it workmen must be accustomed, House of Commons, to that blut, should
be permitted otherwise the progress would eloquent and
2 of either
standing army or have been quicker. When a population Ireland, Mr. Devlin. I spoke of a navy.
bonest
1706
Lot
HOW IT IS DONE.
the hopelessness of the present on our own shores openly declares
The walls of the houses consist situation, and be paid me the itself our enemy, it is not reason- compliment of asking: Can't abla that we should allow it to of a double row of concreta slabs you think of some way out?” arm sgainst us, or to establish erected with a hollow between. Well, I have been thinking bases for the convenience of and supported by pillars or very deeply, and the more I base hostile Powers; but, subject to stanchions. The process of erec- thought the more convinced have that stipulation, I would give Siuntion is very simple. 1 become that the one and only Fein the greatest freedom to ran First of all, a slender woodea solation is one which I suggested the anti-British portion of Ireland skeleton of the house goes up,
this skeleton consisting of tim montbs aga. It is based upon entirely on its own lines. the fundamental principle of And here 1-t me roiterate what bər shatterings iD which recognizing facts. What an the I have more than once poistad the stanchions are moulded, facts? This is how I put it at
(out-namely, that we must not and A light framework the time and certainly what besmirch the whole of the Sion to guide the slaba into posi- said is not less true to-day. Here Fein movement with responsibiltion as they are put one on the is the position..
its for the terrible crimes which | 10p of the other. The ends of the Inlandia thurooghly out of hand are now of almost daily occur-slate are splayed, or bevelled, so The great majority of her popularence. I was recently looking as to form a key into each pillar, tion is sick acd tired of British over the names of some of the and as the slats are placed in rule and is determined to end it. Sinn Fein leaders, and was struck position concreta is poured into It may be that all serious crims What is the good of blinding our That is to say the stanchions are with their characterand position. Įthe shatterings for the stanchions. and anrest at present existing is the result of Irish-American and eyes to the fact that, however moulded in site. The timbering Bolshevist propaganda; but that much the Sina Fain movement is removed when the stanchions does not alter the fact that on theists, it was, in its origin, and is, sizes, it can be used over and over has been captured by the Bolshe-set, and as it is all out tostandard principle of "self-determination
even to-day to a large extent, a fagain in the building of other about which we bave all mouthed 90 eloquentlySinnhoroughly honest and sincere houses,
agitation, but it naturally con- The outsides of the houses are Fein tolds the field-except institutes grateful soil for those staccoed, and the inside plastered the Northern provinces, where Irish-American and other re-in the ordinary way.
The joists
on balance, public sentiment is solutionsries whose activities, as and floors are of wood, and the [overwhelmingly in favourof main- taining the Union *ith Britain. Sir Edward Carson well put it the roofs are tiled or slated. Wood However, Ulster is bot a portion ther day, are not se auch pro- or steel window frames of the standard size are fitted, and the of Ireland, and your whole doctrine Irish as anti British? of "self-determination
You see, the difficulty is to re-doorways are made of the standardi goes it,
concile our present attitude to width. wards the sister Isle with the
in order to adapt it to the interests of Britain you exclude its applica- tion from one particular part of the country. Ireland is either one or she is two countries.
Working on the basis of these measuremer.19, the doctriars we have been proclaims andard
ser since the war. How can investors of the methods bave we, in the eyes of the world, rid fixed 3 fr. 7 in. by 8 io. as the Essentially she is two, but the urselves of the suspicion of insin- size of the slats, and though slab is made to this difficulty of dealing with her on cerity in regard to the precious every
no culling is necessary bat basis is that you cannot theory of self-determination? Just size segregate the whole of each of reflect. At the General Election at any point; each goes home as the two nationalities in distinct over seventy Irish seats were won into an appointed niche. They areas. Consequently, any scheme b Sion Feiners, and if there are fairly easy to handle, weigh- 500 devise for either all or awere another election to-morrowing not more than 35 to 40 lb. portion of the Ulster counties the number would be greater still. each.
Such is the faith of the builders must of necessity leave a large Surely, after such a demonstra- part of the popolation at the tion, it was manifest that, for in the system that they are pre- mercy of its racist and religious 5ood or evil, Sian Fein bad won pared to guarantee houses so the day and that, with the excep built to be constructionally sound, tion of the Ulster Loyalists. Ire-[waterproof, and free from com- To some extent the Home Rule and had definitely thrown over densation. Bill now before the House Teber allegiance to Britain.
What will strike all who ex- cognises this principle, but it does Well, eighteen months bare amine it is the remarkable way not go far enough. It is proposed passed since the election, and in which it economises effort. to establish & Parliament for six We have seen nothing oi only of the Northern counties.bose seventy M.P.'s at West-
enemies.
and another Parliament for the minster. They have confined Executive with all kinds of
the scheme
rest of the country. I am sure their activities to their own power-probably superseding the
of
will
Ulster towards
not work.
existing legal machinery and country, and today we are Whatever may be the altitude witnessing the result. All the practically smounting to martial ber six-old flames of fanaticism which law. But-and there is the rub county-Parliament, it is when all is said. is not fundamen-has the Government the mean3 certain that the Southern Par-tally distinct from patriotismo enforce such & measure? I liament will return an over-have again broken out, with the dont believe it bar. It is difficult whelming majority of Sinn Fein result that Britain bas to-day to to obtain recruits for the Trish members, who, as in the case of face a situation in Ireland infin- Army, whilst the constabulary is our own House of Commone, will, itely more serious than has not likely to grow in strength in after the election, treat the whole been the case since, by methods view of the terrible risks to which thing with contemp: and decline as to which the least said the it is exposed. I am afraid, there- to have anything to do with it better, she was annexed to Great fore, this new Bill, like the one They cannot take their seats Britain & hundred and twenty now before the House, is but a because that would involve the
measure of despair, and that it years ago. oath of allegiance otherwise I
rather ban aggravate How alarming the situation will sm sure their first measure would really is is not fully realised by ameliorate the existing grave be to introduce Bill for the the public. No man's life is safe, situation. establishment of an Irish be he soldier, policeman or civil. And so I come back to my Republic. The latest Home Rule an: Do juries can be empanelledown proposal Let us face the Bill, therefore, will not work, and to inquire into any crime: no facts. Do not let us further con- every day spent upon it is a day arrests can be effected. The Law tinue to treat me one that which wasted
Courts are being superseded by is essentially two. British Ireland What we have to recognise la Sinn Fein tribunals, whose de-for the Loyalists, Independent that there are two Irelands, as cisions are loyally obeyed by the Ireland for the Sinn Feiners distinct in obaracter, in race, in people an Irish Republic has and, as the vestrym in said of the creed, and in natural aspirations been actually proclaimed with 800dolas, leave the rest to nature. as any two peoples upon the face de Valera as its President, and At beart we all love the Irish) of the earth.
They will never this gentleman is officially on people. There is charm about blend and they will never work tertained by the Mayors of New them which neither England nor together. The question, there-York and other American cities Scotland possesses; and some The Undersigned AGENTSfore, is, can some scheme be the freedom of which is conferred bow or other I have got it into
devised under which they may upon him, whilst the papers my head that slier's few ve live their separate existences? I think it can.
national publish appeals for funds for his practical experience of separation
Republic!
from Britáló, Sinn Fein will pro- My scheme is that Ireland Such is the situation with bably come to the conclusion that shall be divided politically into which the Government has to we are her natural allies and two countries, as she is in fact, deal. And, how does it propose partners, and will wish to rejoin one to be called British Ireland to do so? This week, we are to the family. At any rate, isn't the and the other Independent: Ire have a drastic Bill sening the experiment well worth trying?.
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