Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-12-19
Says England Will Always Re-
main the Sole Enemy OF
Ireland.
Emergency Measure to Superin-
duce Recruiting For Brit
ish Army.
GERMANY FOR IRISH FREEDOM


Mayor of Syracuse and for years
prominent in the United Irish
League, objects to Ireland enlisting
against Germany, whose Govern
ment, through the Voice of the
Imperial Chancellor, declares for the
national freedom of the Green Isle.
England will always remain the sole
enemy, of Ireland, he declares, as
economic and industrial pressure
make her the natural and logical
destroyer of Irish industry and COM
merce. Contending that the home
rule bill will effectually stop devel-
oping foreign trade and subject
Ireland to increased taxation from
the burden of an office-holding
brigade, Mayor Mcclure presents the
following:
Ireland contains $4,000 square
miles, England $4,000. Ireland is
more fertile than either England or
Scotland. The population of Eng
land is close to $4,000, 900, ireland
is stripped down to 1000, 900 of in
habitants and ought to be able to
support in comfort 100000 of
people. The island contains coal,
iron, marble, copper and various re-
sources not possible of development
because of English control and op-
position. Her industries are con-
fined to a small section of the
Northeast, held in hand by the
descendants of invaders. fortified
originally by conquest, and rarely do
you find a pure native holding any
important business station in any of
the thirty-two counties of the
island. The prevailing fashion is to
class the natives as lazy and incom-
petent without scrutinizing the his
toric and economic reasons which
have brought them to their present
plight and left them at the mercy OF
the conquerors. Few of her critics
take into account the repressive COM
mercial codes of centuries. lifted too
late, in part, to restore industry. The
English Parliament enacted laws
which ruined the once prosperous
manufacturing industries of the
country. AS soon as Ireland devel-
oped an important direct export
trade, England crushed the life out
of II by export tariffs, hostile duties
aimed at Irish exports solely. At one
time Irish woolens were the first in
Europe. The output of her looms
found their way to all the cities OF
the continent. The cloth makers OF
England successfully petitioned the
Parliament to place an arbitrary
preferential export duty on Irish
woolens which annihilated the indus
try That trade never recovered
from the blow England gave
bounties to manufacturers in various
lines, subsidies 10 ships and none "a
ireland. After bankrupting Ireland
she removed these restrictions In the
midst OF the continental war ex
actly as she promises home rule now
as an emergency measure TO super.
induce recruiting for the British
army. The Irish Volunteers OF 4
hundred years or more ago we're or
ganized as the result of the suppress
sion OF Irish trade. They forced ths
Government to supply them arms II
the same manner as the Irish Volun
teers Of today. The great wars OF
the continent frightened Englans
into granting an Irish Parliament II
I1762. which was taken away from
Ireland twenty years later. Pension
ers OF the Government and traitor
destroyed the national cause exacti,
as they are trying TO do today. Tha
brief period Of a free country wa
the one bright epoch Of modern irisl
history. The factories we're occupie'
and increasing. the harbors file
with ships. and immigration ex
ceeded emigration. Irish independ
fence and growing commerce arouse