The Irish standard., 1906-08-04
The Support Given to Douglas Hyde in
America Has had aRefex Influence
on People in Ireland.
Some Revelations Regarding the Conditions
AExisting' Among the Working
Women in Donegal.

cause or, at least, apathetic. pause and
reflect, and has shamed them into sup
porting the cause of their own lam
guage. His laborious work in America
did not, as We had feared, affect the
doctors health. He returned strong.
hale and hcarty-buoyant, in fact. For
this gratifying fact. America and Amer
leans have to she thanked
English writer's. as a rule even those
That are friendly to our country. are
ludicrously informed regarding our
country's status, and especially regard
ing it's financial relations with theirs.
Now. Ireland pays in taxes 10000, 900
per year, and 1t receives back ,e7OOO.
900 per year The other three go into
the imperial pocket. Yet, strange to
say. even sympathetic English writer's
actually think that England is support
ing Ireland at great Inconvenience and
expense to itself. One of the most sym-
pathetic of these writer's. Mr.. Massing.
nam OF the Daily News, discussing the
other day, the new Irish I.aborers' bill.
fnterjected. II confess to NV belief
that Ireland usually stretches out both
hahds for the receipt Of Saxon gold.
anu that her attitude today hardly
forms Il precedent" 1t is the egreuious
shslishman still coming through the
best meaning of them. If any few
thousands are ever granted to Ireland
out or the general exchequer every
Englishman in the empire really he-
l'eves that England has been again put
ting her hand in her pocket to dole a
charity to Ireland. The Englishman's
memory Is as short as his Judgment is
detective. If 1t were not he would re-
member how. about ten years ago, Ire
land, firing Of listening to this contin-
u"us cry from England demanded a
royal commission upon financial rela-
tions IN order to set at rest once and
forever the vexed question Of whether
or not England had been doling to Ire
land out of her own private purse
| wa" ~" i'ueH SIG Ilau dOled. The
royal commission then appointed was
composed mainly of unionst Protest
ants. and the report Of this commits
sion, which was signed by four British
unionists. one British liberal, and one
Irish nationalist, showed that since
1883 England had taken from Ireland.
annually, G2,25O,00O over and above
lrelands equitable share Of taxation!
Englishmcn gasped when the royal
commission found this verdict, and
when they were told that the full sum
now overdue by Britain to ireland be-
Ing the amount Of excessive taxation
with interest, computed at the British
legal rate, totalled 1898, 400, 900, thew
threw up their hands in horror. It was
the finding of their own people-people
chosen by themselves. The Irish rep
resentatives, unionists and nationalists
combined, demanded the restoration OF
the plunder to Ireland, but the inner
'al pocket was Immediately buttoned
up, and England said We'll let In.
cones be by-gones.," Within ten wears
England has forgotten the finding of
her own commission, and is once again
beginning to harp upon the benevolent
string. The Englishman's sense of the
ludicrous is ever chiefly remarkable
for it's absence
Extraordinary revelations regarding
the conditions existing among the out
workers in knitting socks and linen
work In the north of Ireland were
made before the Home Office commit
tee on the truck acts. Miss Rose M
Squire, factory inspector stated that
IN Donegal she found that poor women
walked many miles into towns. where
WOOL was given out to them, which they
LOOK back to their squalid cabins and
knitted into socks or stockings or
gloves, receiving no payment except in
tea or groceries. the former charges
against them at 3s Cd per pound. The
men of the families were away harvest
ing in Scotland, and the women sup
ported themselves in this way. They
were supposed to earn the value of one
shilling and sixpence per dozen Of long
golf stockings, and nine pence or ten
pence per dozen pair Of short stock