SAYS IRELAND HAS NO CHANCE Mayor of Limerick Declares There Is Practical Side to Independence Limerick, Ireland, May 30.—The Irishmen's claim to political inde pendence is not wholly sentimental, according to Alphonsus O'Mara, May or of Limerick and one of its leading manufacturers. There is, he says, a much more practical qide of the question, the desire for economic in dependence and the opportunity for industrial advancement which the Irishman feels he can never attain until he is permitted to make his ■own laws and deal authoritatively with his own problems. "Material advantages have come out of every movement of the Irish Sor freedom, but the main grievance Temains," said Mr. O'Mara. The one point is wo are heavily overtaxed. This year England is making a profit of twenty millions out of us. That is, she is taxing us thirty-five mil lions, and giving us a government which costs her no more ttian fif teen millions. These figures are not ours but hers. AVe have. England's word for it. Money Aids England "Ireland has improved its position In the past years, but we have not advanced industrially. We lack capital and we lack confidence be cause England and England's states men have told us that we are not fit to govern ourselves, that we lack those essentials which make for self government of the mass and there fore of the individual. Our farming population, absorbing this sentiment through oft reiteration, have with held their money when it was need ed by Irish enterprise. They have deposited it in banks, vast sums of it, and the money has been loaned to Englishmen, for the development of the English industry. "Limerick some 75 years ago had a prosperous mercantile marine. Now the Shannon bears not on its bosom a single ship that can call Limerick its home port. "Also wo had a fine textile in dustry, with more textile workers in Ireland than there were then in England. But that has gone the way ot' the ships. "We have here the finest river in the world for shipbuilding. We could lin-e the shores of the Shannon with busy shipyards and workshops, but the people who would take the initiative have not the money, and because we are told we are not cap able of self-government, the people who have the money will not lend it to those who could use it. Must lie-main Silent. "The world is passing through an industrial crisis. Every nation— America, England, France and even Germany, is making preparations for world trade. But Ireland is not al lowed to take any industrial step that would help her people here at home. AVhy, the British government even refused mc a passport when- I wanted to go to America to place the natural advantages of Limerick before your investors and shipown ers. So here we are, high and dry, with the ocean of prosperity all around us.. "We could only take the steps necessary to develop this country if we were assured Ireland would be allowed to make its own laws and provide its oWrr governments for in no other way could we give American investors any guarantee that Eng land would not tax their investments aut of existence. "I don't have a great deal of faith In what the rest of the world is going to do for us unless we do some thing for ourselves. We have stated our principles, and at the present moment a government of the peo ple of Ireland is in office at Dublin. Of course this government can't have any real power until England with draws her army of occupation and that can or.'ly be' brought about by pressure from outside of Ireland." Pleasure Fares Again On in Paris, But the Prices Are Higher Paris. May 30.—The coming of the armistice has allowed Paris to have Its pleasure fairs again after they had been suppressed during the hos tilities. The celebrated "Gingerbread Fair" was the first to be held and attracted thousands as it has done aince its institution nearly a thou sand years ago. An unpleasant surprise was in Btore for the lovers of merry-go rounds, which used to cost two cents a ride before the war and four on Saturday nights and Sunday. The humblest, most out-of-date affair which offered mere wooden horses or pigs to ride on demand a franc, 20 cents a turn, while the up-to-date machines offering a suspended air plane required a franc and a half, or 30 cents. These extravagant prices (to the frugal French mind) did not prevent brisk business, for even the French seem to have lost their keen Beats cf the value cf money. Cork University Is Seeking Divorce From National Dublin, May 30. The National University of Ireland is a federal Institution composed of three col leges, in Dublin, Cork and Galway. it was established to meet the claim Dl' the Irish Catholics for university education. The federal system has proved irksome to Cork, which now demands that its college should ho given the status of a separate uni rersity. The Cork claim has unitegl every lection of Munster men and the pe titions in its favor have been signed by the heads of all the religious de nominations and the leading men of the province. It involves, however, i new charter from the crown, and the hulk of Sinn Fein opinion, while In favor of the separate university for Cork is hostile to the only method by which under present con ditions it can be obtained. Arrive in Paris to Investigate Industrial Reconstruction Work Parts, May 30.—The Commission pii industrial Inquiry of the National Civic Federation of America, has ar rived in Taris to investigate indus trial reconstruction work in France is it has been doing for the past two months in Great Britain. The commission is composed of "buries Mayer, counsel for the Na tional Union of America; James W. Sullivan, representing the American Federation of Labor; A. F. Bemis, a manufacturer of Boston; A. Parker Neven, former counsel for the Na tional Association of Manufacturers, tad E. A. Quarles, secretary. FRIDAY EVENING, * ttEEEGVOCPH! MAY 30, 1919. "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" Cofy>%ht lit) Bit AhiiiriPMM| > ' ] s " ffii inflliTgili HUrt w i Do You Buy With Your Eyes Open? 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H every way—You can have your money back any time you don't feel satis- ye OUBan 8 any ° you ow rom experience how we fell fied—The brand of clothes we sell will bring you back again when you need heir" to the "good will" of our loyal patrons, simply by doing the things you I another suit. want us to do—give you every courtesy, good service and greater values. Hart Schaffner & Marx, Kuppenheimer & Society Brand Clothes Try This Dependable Doutrich Service That Everybody Is Talking About v—-tM3 Talking! Why there's more talking about this "Live T 1 Store" than any store in this section of the country—Let an out-of-town mer- '' ~ i Til TTt il frCM) f chant put his foot in Harrisburg and almost the first thing he does is come in to pay us a visit, 1 , Afh /pfi C ' r UFILUI rUHs I and when these visitors see how busy we are and hear from our enthusiastic customers the J • J * high regard they have for Doutrichs, they need no further instructions why Doutrichs are get- | ' ' ? 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