The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
SEDITION TRIALS
OVER ALL IRELAND
Grown Prosecutors Fighting the
Growing Movement Against
British Recruiting.
BY Timothy J. O'Connor.

BY Timothy J. O'Connor.
Journal Special Service.
Dublin, Nov. 1S-Just now the crown
prosecutors all over Ireland are engaged
in the attempt to obtain from Irish
.urles, more or less packed, convictions
who have engaged in crusade against
mllltarism and enlistment: They are be-
ing indicted for an attempt to persuade
young Irish lads that they would better
be engaged at home than in fighting
England's battles: Up to the present
time the result of the prosecutions has
been to increase the difficulties of the
recruiting officers, and to reduce still
further the number of recruits from Ire
land and the Irish population of Great
Britain.
Education for Ireland.
Lady Rachel Dudley, president of the
Irish Central Bureau for the Employ
. nent of Women, is interesting herself in
campaign in the interest of practical
education for the people of Ireland. In
recent interview she said:
'sExperience has shown that there is
no lack Of openings for the employment
OF women in Ireland. but that the sup
ply of trained workers fails entirely to
meet the demand. The great majority
ing''
Accordingly the bureau established
small! loan fund to enable applicants to
obtain the necessary training for them
selves Lady Dudley suggests the de-
velopment of this branch of the work,
for which more ample funds are needed.
Meantime the question arises, what has
the technical education department,
apart from it's Kildare street school,
been doing thru the past five years for
the training of women workers? Large
sums OF money are being spent all over
the country by committees for this pur-
pose.
Irish Mace and Chair.
The provisions in the will of the late
sViscount Massereene directing that the
mace OF the Irish house of commons and
the chair of the speaker of that assem-
bly, should be heirlooms in the posses
sion of the holder of the Massereene
peerage recalls significant incident in
the history of the union. The last
speaker, Mr.. Foster, determined anti
unlonlst, refused to surrender the mace
OF the Irish house Of commons to any
but the constituted authority by whom
1t mad been lntrusted to his keeping.
and consequently, it descended to his
great grandson, Lord Massereene. Mr..
Foster, who had been chancellor of the
exchequer in the Irish house Of commons
before his election to the speakership,
was afterwards, in the imperial house of
commons. chancellor of the Irish exche-
quer, before the, fraudulent amalgama-
tion, in 1916, of the British and Irish
exchequers, which the Irish allege sad
died Ireland with the interest of a pre-
union British national debt.
Rev. Richard Lyttle Mourned.
The late Rev. Richard Lyttle, of
Moneyrea, whose death will be deeply
deplored amongst nationalists of County
Down and of Ulster generally, was best
known in connection with the Ulster
land agitation. He was, however, a
genuine nationalist and worker in the
nationalist cause in many other spheres.
He attended and spoke at the great
Leinster hall convention, over which the
bishop of Raphoe presided in 1897. In
Belfast he has been known to attend and
recte at an Emmett anniversary celebra:
it should be mentioned that, tho toe
busy to take up the study of Irish, he
was from the outset an enthusiastic ad
vocate of the Gaelic revival. He made
a stirring speech at the first Gaelic
league conference in Belfast in April
1896, and again on the occasion of DR.
I Hyde lectures there; and tho resident
in a country place distant from the city
he, was present at nearly every public
Gaelic function Of Importance. He was
\ however, at his very best as an orato
and public diplomatist in the pulpit of hi
meetinghouse, where he has been known
| to preach 18th of July anniversar,
thru the countryside by orange placard
headed with the usual picture Of Kin}
William on horseback. He also preached
I political historicala sermon on the oc
casion of Queen Victoria s diamon'
Jubilee. When the, pulpits all thru
Ulster were resounding with talk abou
King William and Queen Victoria
] topic should not be considered at Money
4 rea tho what he had to say was some
\ thing different.
u Peerage for Saunderson.
y The rumor is persistent that Colone
Y Saunderson is to be raised to the Iris
= peerage. It is not at all unlikely, tha
4 will accept a peerage of the Unite
4 Kingdom. It is extremely unlikely tina
he will be offered peerage of tn
b United Kingdom, which, with the sol
Il exception Of Lord Curzon in 1898, ha
not been conferred since 1868, when Nj
I McCintock was raised to the Irish peel
| age as Baron Rathdonnell, having re
gard to the fact that Irish peers az
| without seats in the house Of lords ur
II less they are elected Representative
3 rs, and are not eligible to electio
4 to the house of commons for Irish col
s stituencies. Colonel Saundersn woult
4 on other grounds, probably be reluctar
to accept an Irish peerage which
1900 was offered to, but Declined by h:
& grandfather, as an inducement to vot
for the union, and having regard to h
knowledge of the circumstance that tf
+ history Of Irish peerages is. as M
Lecky declares, associated with meme
ries not Of honor but of shame.