Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-03-08
BAN ON ANARCHISTS
Preacher of This Cult Given Warm
Reception in Belfast.
FINALLY RESCUED BY POLICE
He Says Ireland is Not Yet Ripe for
the Propaganda.
SIR HORACE PLUNKETTs APPEAL
Landlords Asked to Stay in Ireland
and Identify Themselves with 1t.
GREAT WEALTH IN IRISH BoGs
Ammonia, Paper and SOAP Are Being
Made from Peat-some strik-
ing Complaints of over
taxation.
GREAT WEALTH IN IRISH BOG

DUBLIN, March 7-tspecal.) )-Ireland is
evidently not a fruitful soil for the propa-
Eanda Of anarchism, and one Of the Preach
ers OF disorder and violence who invaded
the country a few days ago met with a
reception that surprised him. He was
called Mara. At least that was the name
he gave and he came from Scotland, where
there are a good many anarchists. He ap-
peared one Sunday morning on the Belfast
custom house steps. which form free
forum for cranks of all sorts who think
they have a message for the people. The
usual crowd listened with the usual lam
guild interest, thinking that Mara was
only a new brand of crank, but when he
began to justify the assassination Of the
king and crown prince of Portugal some
one threw a brick, which narrowly missed
his head MARA lodged and declared that
in his opinion all rulers ought to be killed.
A shower of bricks followed this remark
and several of the audience began to dig
up the paving stones. Now Mara was
stranger in Belfast and he did not know
that when a Belfast mob begins to dig
UP the paving stones serious trouble is
likely to follow and he went and at
tackled the priests and Protestant clergy
impartiaIy in the most disgusting Ian
guage. At this point some one rushed into
the police barracks close by and begged
the officer in charge to send a strong force
Of police to lock M Ara up before he was
thrown into the Lough. The police arrived
Just as the crowd had decided that the
Lough was the best place for him and was
proceeding to put its decision into effect
The police rescued him after several heads
had been broken. and the next morning
he was sent to prison for three months.
h. Loft he no
that Belfast did not seem ripe for the
anarchist propaganda
Sir Horace PIunkett's Appeal.
hopeful sign of the times is the issue
OF an appeal by Sir Horace Plunkett form
crly Vie president OF the Board of Agri-
cgi.I.a and himself one of the landlord
cess 60 l. members of his class to throw
IN si.c &C. with the people of the country
Ti.e' a. t.i,.t 49, yalilei is entitled 'Noblesse
Obi'ge, IS aGdi esscd TO the many Irish
gentry who are now considering whether
they shall leave the country OF their birth
or shall remain and identify themselves
with the national life. Sir Horace points
out that now that the peasants Of Ireland
are becoming the proprietors of their own
holdings. ali couse for bitterness between
them and the aristocracy of the country
is removed. and he calls on the aristocracy
TO fulfin It's true function, that of leading
the people to the attainment Of their ma
tional aspirations. He declares that for
the rehabilitation of Ireland more than the
mere material prosperity which will come
from peasant proprietorship is needed.
The social and intellectual life which an
educated and leisure class alone can fur
nish is also needed example and in
spiration to the people and the trained in
tellects which only men of leisure can give
Ion aN no anRlm
and industrial problems which the country
will soon be called upon to solve. 1t is
hopeful sign that an increasing number OF
the younger Irish gentry deserting the
unjonist party and throwing In their lot
with the nationalists, while many more who
are taking active part In politics are
dovoting their energies TO nonpolitical
movements for the regeneration of the
country
OvertaxatIOn of Ireland.
Some very striking figures of the over
taxation of Ireland have just been pub
lished here. A royal commission recently
reported that in proportion to the other
divisions of the United Kingdom. Ireland
was paying about si5,OOO,oCO year more
than her share OF taxes. One instance
alone Is typlcal Of all the rest. ireland
maintains 1900 members OF the Royal
Irish constabulary at an annual cost of
SI5OOOOC, while Lancashire, with about the
same population as ireland and vastly
more crime gets along very we'll with 6,75s
police, which cost the county about $780,
COO year. In addition TO this there is the
Dublin Metropolitan police force, which
costs $4,000 year, while Manchester,
with more than double the population. gets
along with police force which only costs
$6SO.O00 a year.
One OF the most recent suggestions which
has been made on the subject and which
has received the approval OF individuals
and public bodies OF all shades of polt-
ical opinion in Ireland, is that England
should give back. as a beginning 5000
900 year to be devoted TO the upbuild-
ing OF the Irish industries which were
ruthlessiy and deliberately destroyed by
England for the benefit Of her own manu-
factures.
~ wealth in Iriah BOEs.
Every Irish-American no doubt has seen
a neat fire, but few know the wealth that
lies concealed in the Irish bOgs. Until a
few years ago no one thought that peat had
any use except as fuel, but In the last year
there have been great developments in the
chemical examination of the Irish turf
snd companies have been formed TO make
ammonia, paper and soap from peat The
latest development is the establishment
OF an extensive plant at Carnlough, County
Antrim. for the manufacture OF ammonia
dyes and other chemical by-products from
the peat which abounds in the bogs OF thai
part OF the country.
II Is common saying In England thai
the two chief exports OF Ireland are whisky
and members OF Parliament Both are OF
excellent quality, but they do not con.
stitute a large enough trade for the natior
20 flourish on. and the Ulster Agriculture
society Is just beginning determined ef
fort to capture the egg trade of Grea
Britain. Large quantities OF Irish egg
used 10 be consumed IN England, but th'
trade has been gradually captured by IN,
Danes and Russians who paid closer at