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Irish Revolt Over Taxes;
Government Party Splits
And Breach Is Widening
NO CHANCE OF RECONCILLIA
TION BETWEEN NATIONALISTS
AND COSGRAVE FACTION
DUBLIN, Feb. 18.—Whatever chance
there may have been of effecting a
reconcilliation between the National
Group (the supporters of the Free
State Government who disagreed
with certain actions of the Executive
and broke away) and the Govern
ment Party, there appears to be none
now.
The National Group is led by Sean
Milroy and Joseph MacGrath, both
upholders of the Anglo-Irish Treaty,
but they disagree with the present
administration and say that the Ex
ecutive’s policy is not national
enough, and that the officials of the
old British regime, and not the Cab
inet, rule the country.
The result of this attitude is to
spread confusion in the Government
supporters’ ranks. Everybody recog
nizes that President Cosgrave’s Cab
inet has done wonderful things to re
store order and confidence in the
country, but there is an unending cry
for less taxation and more work, and
any criticism in this direction which
would help to spur on the Govern
ment to enlighten the people’s bur
dens meets with general approval.
Government Losing.
Hence it is that, while the Nation-1
al Group has much sympathy, if not
actual support, in the country. Gov
ernment supporters are getting less
and less enthusiastic every day. Peo
ple do not worry to go to the polls J
to cast votes for their candidates.
This neglect was responsible for the
defeat of two Government candidates
at recent bye-elections. The National
Group, is now threatening to run can
didates at b> e-elections, and if this
policy is persisted in, the Republi
cans are bound to gain seats of a
three-cornered vote. In a word, the
Government’s stock is at a low ebb.
By this I do not mean that in the
event of a general election tomorrow
morning. President Cosgrave’s admin
istration w'ould not again be return
ed. One of the chief Republican
organizers admitted to me the other
day that the De Valera party does
not even hope to win the general
election to be held in two years’
time, nor the general election after
that—that is, six years from now.
But will Ireland continue to ap
prove of De Valera’s policy of ab
stention all that length of time? It
is hardly likely. Already there is an
ever-growing demand that business
men, not politicians, should be elect
ed to the Dail. De Valera and his
followers are being subjected to
every bit as much criticism as is
President Cosgrave. In counties such
as Cork and Tipperary—where twro
or three years ago one dared not
say a word against the Republican
leaders without danger from the gun
—nowadays one continually hears
even much vulgar criticism of the
Sinn Fein party as a whole from its
inception. People are beginning to
say that neither Corgrove nor De Va
lera can deliver the goods and make
a businesslike policy in Ireland.
May Join Republicans.
And, again, lately there appears to
be a move on the part of the Na
tional Group to join with the Re
publicans. Sean Milroy, who can be
regarded as the chairman of that
party, writes:
“Does the anti-treaty party face the
possibility of remaining for years in
the wilderness, giving nothing to Ire
land but pious hopes and the weak
ness of division, standing aside from
the practical work and duty of help
ing to lift the people out of poverty
and helping them to get their rignts
in whatever liberties and opportuni
ties the present position gives us?
But let us suppose the people elect
that party to power. Does such a
prospect fill the antis with unalloyed
satisfaction? Do they see their way
to making good their pledges? (They
will be involving Ireland and the
Irish people in the gravest risks.)
They will be be able to establish
Ireand as a completely separate coun
try, with a Republican Government
operating over the whole four prov
inces. That they will be able to ov
ercome the opposition of England,
convert Sir James Craig and our own
pro-British minority! Or, failing to
make good their pledges, beat all
these combined powers by force of
arms? Those who have been coming
of late in contact with people from
different parts of Ireland know that
the thoughts of the majority of the
Irish people are not directed at pre
sent toward heroic patriotism. A
great effort was made, a certain po
sition was won; what the people
want now is to reap the fruits of
that effort. They want to share in
those fruits; they want that share
to be expressed in material advan
tage.”
Asks Coalition.
Mr. Milroy goes on to make an
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Repairing
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Orlander, J eweler
appeal to the Republicans to join
with the National Group and make
lor a more practical policy than
their present one, but it is gener
ally feared that his appeal will come
to nothing.
Rut the great chance of the Gov
ernment again securing the enthusi
astic approval of the people lies in
the introduction of its new budget,
which Ernest Blythe will read to the
Dail in the first week in April. It
is generally agreed that his effort
of last year has been responsible
for the Government’s present unpopu
larity.
Income tax in Ireland stands the
highest in the world, as taxation
stands all around. The people de
manded relief and got none. The
Irishman has to pay twenty shillings
more per barrel for his beer than
the Englishman because of the ex
tra taxation.
Nothing has been done to check
the food profiteers. It is curious that
though the price of foodstuffs was
never as high during the past quar
ter of a century, the price paid to
the farmed was never so low.
Services Are Bad.
Furthermore, the public services
are not nearly as good or efficient as
in the British days, and people are
beginning to say so.
The Postal and Telegraph Depart
ment is an example of this. It was
one of the stock cries of the old Sinn
Fein Party that Britain neglected Ire
land’s commerce for her own benefit.
But Britain gave a better postal and
telegraph service. There were more
punctual, cheaper and more frequent
deliveries in the old days. For exam
ple, it is possible to post a letter in
London for delivery in Cork at an
cheaper rate than it is to post a let
ter in Dublin to be delivered in that
city. Yet delivery of the London let
ter will involve a great deal more
labor and expense.
The issue for the Government is
the introduction of cheaper and bet
ter services and less taxation if it is
to save its face.
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