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.
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