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lion is in•: in the ;>r. t am’.
*!.. -v no. h i" Hi.- |kisi v i! <l-i not
know. ’lli reports tit it d'.or" is
aro again <n eu-ring in Ireland,
however show that what.nor la.
the origin, the movement is taking
a strong hold ot the cotiiitiy anti
is displacing the parliamentary
movement altogether.
Yet it would be a mistake to
judge tliat physical force is to tie
resorted to tiecause this pr" lieiuehr
tai". agitation is falling into dis
repute.
The i 1;. inis made that throng1
the parliamentary party Ir laud has
g.tile d many 'omissions from Knap
iand during the past fifty yen. i.t
appar i.lly substantiated by th«
ret ord.
Wi may ae. pt the word ef l'r .•
feasor Bonn of Munich ITuversity,
hardly a partisan, that "Hit Irish
tenants have had condition!) a-T-urto
them more favorable than an' oth°r
tenantry of the world enjoy". The
valuable work of the Congested
District Board, of the Agrii iilture!
Laborer's act. of the local govern
mi'iit .mil county councils, «>t the
department of Agriculture urn'
technical instruction, of t'nivirs1’.'
Kiluciiiion and tin* like arc refer ra
tlin! have come with t!;e ext* wV n
of the franchise ami within tilt>
years. Tin y are all claiund l*y Hi
ji..rlinnntar> part;, as their wotk
- nei their wo''k alone.
So many reforms have in 'eea
bi eii i arrieil out. important reft rms
and very valuable that son e tf tin
leading men have claimed that
tireat Britain was trying to kill r.hi
national movement with kindrtsa.
However to credit the Irish piety
with acci inplishing the reforms
that have undoubtedly been pc
eomplislied would be to deny v
much more important local a.ilti
lion that was maintained in Ire
land.
Thus the agrarian agitation was
kept up with and without the s;t] -
port of the party. The attacks on
landlords and direct physical viol
ence were all : ‘‘ lit 1 by th
1 risk party and . e. ■ T ruel
< ommission. whose llndings afford
ed Kipling an opportunity ''or ah is
ing tin- Irish in a well known nr t
;ili aordinarily powerful v rw en
titled 'Cleared'', accepted the dis
claimer as correct.
Furthermore the plan of cue
jiaigii. the powerful boycotts. th<
moonlight outrages and other act.
onsidered lawless, and in reality
criminal attempts to fight the tie 11
v,;th fire, have been carried on is
the outraged e xpression of a pet-i ct
in desperation.
If the truth were known it is
more than likely that those agita
tions had much more to do with
these reforms above mentioned
than the making of olo']ti€ii'.
speeches in parliament or the cita
tions of members in Irish National
Conventions. These have always
greatly amused and satisfied the
British parliament. but they
brough little results,
results.
The independence aims ot Ire
land of today have been materially
strengthened by th° Sein Finn
movement.*’ it may well he quest •
tioned if there ever was a move
ment less identified with sordid mo
tives than this one. It certainly
is not based upon any desire to im
prove the British scheme- of land
taws. It may well be believed tint
these could not be bettered. It
certainly is not based upon unv in
clination to extend trade and to
cover the lovely valleys ot the if. id
with factories belching soot a id
producing a national anemia.
It is not for the acquirement c>
wealth and property andNpsssesshin
or any such material aims as anl
mate, inspit* - and direct those
movements in other lands looting
ov. ,r
i'Oi::*.! |. v. r.
Tin- . . a is to ho quite Da • < t
Oreat In. And \ ry Irani.h
l lie set Ihii is i id forward to plats
Ireland in tlis rank of imlependen.
nations, as independent as Belgium
was In fore the war. or Servia, or
Bulgaria or Rumania.
That tit’s would better 'lie Rush
people sir. may welt he eers'dSSTeo
open to question. In many re
spects Ireland today is a-- much
English ind Seoteh ns it Is Irtsli
The nsDonal distinction depends
more upon geographical position
than upon an> racial or economic
distinct ion.
!• . . ■ ' ■ w v r been e'truer 11 sa• .
Hum in spite of the arrival of Dane
and Norman and Saxon and Crom
wellian Englishman and «Rang
Dutchman, all of these became more
Irian than the Irish themselves.
Moreover since the ltltli Century
when Ireland first came under Brit
ish rule and notwithstanding oc
casional uprisings whit it gave more
or leas a short glimpse of scpaia
tion, Ireland lias been pari and par- , -
cel of British dominions during],.
I those eight hundred years. Kveti j jj
so. many ot the proudest names in £
i Irish history, from Silken Thomas jj
down to 1’earee and Plunkett, have 8
been men who came to Ireland with 1 a
the conquerors. 3
How completely the great na- ] jj
t ionsli t movements were bomiuat- S
ed b; •: Saxon settl< rs is - en in >
tin names of Kimm-tt and Wolfe 3
Tone and Napper Tandy. Mitchell |
and Bavin Par.e l!, Biggar ami 8
Sexton name.' associated with w
the Saxon dominance beyond any j
question. 8
H
When the Irish parliament exist
ed in the latter end of eighteenth j
century and it was identified with
radical steps to create its own ab
solute independence of the British
government, the names almost with 1
out exception identified with that
movement we"e British. Grattan,
Flood, Curran. Foster. Barrington
all ot them might be as well
'taken from the pages of English i
iti dory. j
Furthermor. over sine, the tri- j
! uni oh of King William, the Irish
ini. aei opted the do nina i ol
j th» King ot England without
demur, and until the rebellion o'
•'IS follows in 'lie wake of the
I’nited Irishmen, the struggle has
i not been before that identified with |
' absolute separation.
Students of this interesting his- >
torical question will face the fact <
that it was after the Union had
been effected with Great Britain’s
parliament that the idea of Ireland
a separate nation and a republic
took root with any degree of firm
ness.
They will be well advised to re
member that following that Union
the economic status of the Irish
became wholly one of dependence.
And the reason is to be found ini
this economic basis for discontent.'
Before the union landlordism #as
a (rushing evil; after * lie union it
was no lees a crushing evil but
identified with absenteeism. Before
the Union Irish trade had grows
| by leaps and bounds', after the
I Union laws were passed which were
| calculated to reduce Irish trade to
j a position of abject impoverish
ment. Before the Union Ireland
was a manufacturing center, after
t ho Union Ireland twain-' an
nortirg nation with its i -pita! leav
ing (■■:>!n n* !v to 1- - expended in
I London on Londcn pleasure or I.
,n ; u It insular t
that fr- irate ami the repeal of
the corn laws v hi h built up Urit
1
i n -
iiu. ;ri• s in Ireland m w ■'! an ■/->
J-iroying , 11.• value ol" Iri.-li agricul
! :«r,.l < art. Ac onlii.g'.y we r.i.iy
| :r.-tile goii. :-is of S.-in Finn <1 i- [
rectiy through tin- years back to,
th‘> economic results of the Union
of the Irish with the British ]>ar!ia- j
mont. Whether Irish agitation took !
on the form of the Emmett revolt,
or the Young Ireland movement, or
the Fenians or the Irish parlia
mentary party or the Sein Finn,
we ran demonstrate without little
j trouble that these arose from the
i evils, the economic evils that fol
i lowed to Ireland from the passing
of the Art of Union.
It might well be said that the
Ireland today is a hotter, more
prosperous and more intelligent
Ireland than at any period for sev
eral hundred years. And reason
: ing from this it might be argued
itliut Ireland lias less cause to com
t plain of British rule than at any
! time within the past hundreds
years. Nor would it he incorrect.
But the fact remains that whatever
Ireland has got in the way of re
form, the small nation, now so <
much in the world's eye, got them
through the unaided effort of them
selves alone which after all is the
motto of the Sein Finn movement.
If there has been anything calcu
lated to invest the Sein Finn move
ment with confidence, however vi
sionary may be its ideas, however
impracticable its aims, it is the fact
that the Irish themselves, through
themselves and for themselves
wrung by unending, tireless amt
ceaseless effort from the British
parliament what gains they have
made and what reforms are theirs.
It was tho British themselves who
taught them to rely upon the Irish '
themselves alone. Truly tho evil
that men do lives after them espe
cially in the case of those short
sighted statesmen who believed
that government by bayonets could *
stand and that when the hayone.. -
had been removed they would be
f agotten.
omen t of the Onnrrhip. man
aaenicni. circulation, etc, i.-.i. l:. t
h; the Vt of August 'J*. HHfh
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