The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-15

ration of responsible government. H
continues: The Irish demand is il
= plain and popular language, that tn
}. government of every purely Irish af
II fair shall be controlled by the publ,
= opinion Of Ireland, and by that alone
- We do not seek and alteration of thu
= constitution or supremacy of the i'm
I perial parliament We ask merely
! to be permitted To take our place il
. the ranks of those other portions o
the British empire-some twenty
eight in number-which in their owl
= purely local affairs are governed by
free representative institutions OF
their own. The moderate. even mod
est. demand has its root alike in his
j toric title and in the utter and disas-
! trous failure of the attempt since
1900 to govern Irish affairs by Brit
ish majority at Westminster. Historic
title may count for little nowadays
against superior force. but it is a po-
, tent influence in the hearts of IRISH
! men and accounts for the passionate
enthusiasm which has enabled them,
inspite of suffering and disasters
perhaps unparalleled in history to
preserve unimpaired the sentiment of
/; their distinct and separate nationality.
History proves Irelands right to
seif-g government" Mr. Redmond de-
clares, but aside from chat her de-
mand for home rule also has its root
her"
in the failure OF England to govern
What greater test Of good govern
ment is 10 found than the tast OF
population?' Mr.. Redmond asks. "In
! Ireland since 1871 the population has
diminished by SO per cent. In 1915
Ireland had three times as many peO
pie as Scotland and half rs many as
England. In fact, Ireland had one
third of the whole population of the
/ United Kingdom. In sixty years her
population has gone down by four
millions. Ninety per cent of those
who left her shores we're between the
ages of ten and forty-five."
! The census figures show how Ire
4 lands industrial prosperity was
checked by the act of the union. The
following is quoted by Mr.. Redmond
from the report of the last census
commission for Ireland: The num-
Der Of persons engaged in Ireland in
the production and distributor of
textile fabrics has fallen away very
considerable during the past thirty
years. The totals recorded were for
1871, 19S.S64 and for 1881. 129.7S7.
In 1891 there was practically no
change at 12g.SS4. but in 1901 the
numbers employed had fallen to 1O9,-
SIS. Referring to the returns for the
later year, the commissioners OBJ
serve:
In this marked decline of over 1879
per cent the males diminished by
S,S64 and the females to the extent
of 11,432. Looking at the principal
textile manufactures, we find that by
far the most important industry in
the country, viz, the flax and linen
industry, has lost over 1900. nearly |
one-fifth of Is workers. while those
employed in the manufacture of
wooden goods have suffered a cores
pOnding reduction"
Education in Ireland. Mr. Redmond !
says, is admittedly so per cent below |
the standard of every other European |
nation. Taxation per head has dou-
bled in fifty years and the civil gov
eminent is the most costly in Europe, |
as is demonstrated by the following
figures:
The total civil government of Scot
land with practically the same pop
was in 1900 e2,447.OOO. or
SIP, $500 The cost of similar gov
eminent in the same year in Ireland
was f4,547.000 or $22, 1885 600. Ire
lands judicial system cost goo, 600, /
or $1,000.000 more than the Scotch a
year. The Irish police costs exactly
three times what the police of Scot
land costs. The number of officials
in Scotland $ 963, with salaries amount
ing to G311.00O, or $1,555,OO0 The
number of officials in Ireland is 4.539
with salaries amounting to f1.412.52O,
Or $7O62,600 Per head of the pop 7,
ulation the cost of the present gov
eminent of Ireland is twice that of
England and is far higher than that
Of Norway, Holland. France. Den
mark, Portugal. Sweden. Italy. Spain.
Bulgaria, Greece, Belgi-
I'm, Switzerland, Austria Hungary,
Germany or Russia. In other words,
Ireland, probably the poorest coun--
ry in Europe, pays more for her gov
than any other nation The
secret off the inefficiency and the eX-
ravagance is identical namely. the ,
act that it is a government not r
BASED upon the consent but main
aimed in actual opposition. to the
will Of the governed
The extension of the English poor I
aW, which was devised to meet cases
where there was plenty of employ
nent, but where the people would not
york, to Ireland. is cited by Mr. Red Z
nond as an example Of outrageous
english misgoVernment. Ireland OBJ
'osed the measure with every means
n her power. and now, seventy years
fter the law was put in force com A
mission appointed to investigate its
'orkings declares that the poor low
5 unsuited to Ireland and that it has
cen g faialure during all these years f
he system is eXtravagant, ineffi-
lent and demoralizing. The cost is
normous Mr. Redmond declares
he last figures that we have show
nat the cost was E1.224S,496 ($6,242,- 7
so, or. in other words, at the rate
+ IS sd ($125). per head of the
hole population
There are II the thirty-two coun- S
IS of Ireland 159 unionst159 work.
Ouses-and there are inmates in
lese warehouses; numbering 1915.
mates of all kinds and descriptions
ow, within these warehouses; all
Drts and kinds of inmates are
'owded together under the same ~
sick, the aged and infirm, n
lildren, the helpless mothers of Il
pung children. the insane, the cas- -
ais and tramps, and other able-bod- ~
d paupeIs-all crowded together in ,,
e same institution, and all tainted a,
ore or less with the hateful stigma ~
the workhouse pauper. SO far as -,
e larger number of those inmates hi