The Irish standard., 1910-12-03
ELECTORAL BATTLE
Calling Out Personal Retorts From
Both Sides.

Both Sides.
! As the electoral battle progresses it
becomes more evident the American
dollar will be the loudest even If not
the most convincing cry of the cam
paign. The Unionists, from Balfour
downward, are using it for all it is
worth. The dollar bill is the chief
feature Of most political cartoons.
One Unionist paper heads it's columns
daily with huge dollar sign, and one
of the radical papers cleverly paro-
died.
Many personalities are injected into
the campaign with reference to the
English noble houses whose escutch-
cons have been regilded by marriage
with American heiresses. OF these,
the Lloyd George-Marlborough Incl
dent is the most notable. As a rule
Liberals are merely laughing at the
American dollar cry. In fact, one
sentiment that the argument because
Redmond got 100000 of Canadian
! Irish-American money the electors
ought to vote for the veto of the lords
is ludicrous, saying:
ut is an abuse of language to call
1t argument at all, but, as this is the
only argument the lords have got,
and as every orator is screaming and
screeching it, it is well to laugh it
out of court"
Winston Churchill, with perhaps a
keener appreciation of the importance
of the American dollar dictation cry,
may have on the results of the cleo
ton, treated it more seriously than a
majority of his party when he asked
whether it was wrong for 1rishmen
in Canada and America to send mon
ey to Irishmen in Ireland, and was
the Irish party the only party that
had no right to raise an election fund.
What was this 100000 compared to
the gigantic election fund of the Tory
party? What were the names of the
subscribers to the Tariff Reform
league?
T. P. O'Connor carried the war
even further, pointing his finger at
the present members of the House of
Lords, whose fortunes have been built
on rents which have been paid by
American money.
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who are not ashamed to reproach the
Irish race in America for giving dol
lars to win freedom and never re-
proach them for giving dollars to pay
i rent"
He referred to Irish emigration aft
or the famine of 1916 and 1S47 and
the subsequent outbreak Of typhus,
and to the coffin ships which carried
dying and dead. In the end between
5000 and $4,000 people were shoveled
into unknown graves without even
cross to mark the place. Who sent
them there? The landlords sent them
there, and the landlords and House
of Lords were one and the same thing,
and among the landlords who sent
them was the grandfather Of the pres
ent Marquis of Lansdowne. He sent
them not only there but to New York
also, and so common did it become in
New York to receive into hospital
from the Lansdowne estate those who
were in the throes of death wheh
landed that a ward in one hospital
was known as the Lansdowne ward.
"This," concluded T. p, twas the man
who talked of American dollars. Why,
his rent roll would not pay back the
dollars America has spent to save his
tenants from starvation"
Punch neatly satirizes the dollar
aspect of the campaign in supposed
speech by the Tory parliamentary
candidates, who declare:
Gentlemen, you understand the u.s.
sue is the new tariff question, the
constitutional question, land ques.
tions, licensing questions and educa-
tkOAoA 4u0oIlOAb. AL LueSC dA0 AOIu'
ing compared with the one great ques-
ton before the country today. Are
we to be bought by American dollars?
At other times and other elections,
we have asked you if you wished to
be ruled by Germany. We shall ask
you that question again at future cleo
tons, but for the moment Germany
sinks into the background. The ques-
ton to be decided today is this, Do
i you wish to be ruled by American"