The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-29
BOOM IN INDUSTRY ONE
 RESULT OF EUROPEAN WARFARE
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 a MT. Brayden says:
 or the minor circumstances of the great European war none has been ireland Political faction has been interested in minimizing it, while the military authorities have been reluct- A.ntNto give the exact measure of Irish eo-operation- Yet it has been plain that of the smaller European units none has counted more significantly In the great cataclysrn than the island behind an island in the west
 It has been made clear that a British embarrassment in Ireland was one of the fActors in the calculations of-the German diplomatists- The last Belgian Gray Book proved this defi- nitely. Sir Edward Carson's bluff although it left Ireland itself undis- turbsd, had imposed itself not merely upon English apprehensions, as was made 50 strangely evident by the Kings invitation to the Birmingham Conference, but upon the Berlin ChanceII0rship, which had been rep resented at the Belfort reviews
 Fortunately the Irish question had 90 far appr cached a settlement that it freed MT Redmond for that bold
 
 ed the British Empire and toppled over the German house of cards on the eve of the declaration of war. when the Irish leader declared that the Irish National Volunteers were prepared to stand by the Ulster Vol unteers in defending the shores of Ireland from. aggression, and that England might withdraw every train ed soldier from the land. there was an end to any chance of effective German intrigue with the elements of Irish diecontent.'' ?
 An evens more courageous advance of Mr. Redmond's was his address to the Irish National Volunteers a.dmon- ishing them that the defence of Ire land was being maintained on the fields of Flanders. It was more cour- ageous because it reversed the whole tradition of Nationalist politics in the conflicts of the British Empire.
 Handicapped as his statesmanship has been by the British party spirit, MT Redmond's lead has neverthe- less, prodt1<sed great results. Irish opinion was assisted in coming to it's conclusion aHs-to the soundness of his 8; ;rategy by the manifest eagerness of the opponents oftheI Irish cause, to beHttle the results achieved. 9he strange spectacle has been witnessed in Ireland of a. patriotic propagandas in favor of the maintenance of the British Empire and the defence of the cause Of the Allies being sneered| at by the organs that had hitherto I-sade their loyalty and imperialism their prime boaSts-
 The old hand in Irish national poll tics was indeed not surprised by the strange union of the Irish NationaHsti externpist with the organs of Orange ism in be1itt1ing the fruits achieved by the constitutional leaders; and very soon the rank and file of Irish Ma tiona1isrn began to point the nor ni The policy SO clearly disliked by the enemies of a friendly settlement pfith England upon the basis of na-' tsoEfa4 right was plainly the policy that they should follow. According- Ir the figures of Irish recruiting be- gan steadily to grow Very soon an Irish division was Iharshalled and ready for the field, drawn from the southern provinces
 This was the Tenth Division, which u ent 4froih the Curragh and the bar racks. around Dublin to storm the slopes at Suvfas Bay, troops to whose hef0isrn Justice has yet to be done. and the causes of whose failure have yetfto beafuIly unfolded- Enough is Known, however. to justify the asser- tion that Aot even the sAnzacs'' have done greater things than those accom- ryIfshedNby the lads from L.eipster and sC1nnAught who had never before been under shell fire. The remark b4e thing was noted in Ireland that tfis gallant division was ready for the field and had done it's bit'' before tfe Ulster division had left its train ing camp
 Then, when at last the military au- naturally, are but poor politicians and may be excused for not realizing the importance of consulting senti u1ent in a crisis like that which faced them-at length con- Fented to take MT. RedTnond's advice and call for the formation of an Irish brigade, the Tanks were soon willed. Under the impulse of this recognition Of Irish nationality recruiting flour fined. In April and May the mum bers reached from a thousand to two thousand a week
 Then came the triumph of the Northcliffe intrigue and the dissolH- ffon* Of the Liberal Ministry. The event brought the number of Irish recruits down with a rush, and the party politician had accomplished an other stroke for the German
 It would not have been surprising if with so many b1unders and so much Encouragement the Irish rally had proved failure. But the average 7rfsfi4nan is sound politician and nattona1 interest He shas been pro- foundig stirred by the crucifixion of Belgium. q q The burning of 1Louvain, with dts recofds and 4ztaonurnentsa of the Irish exi1es of another day. re- xrainde him piercingly of his debt to that hospitable shelter of his fathers. Hut the ruling motive. with him is his convictiop that Tn taking his part tn the war he is strengthening Ire- land itself; he is sealing with double md intangible seal his own charter of liberty; he is destroying that curse of Ireland, the play of the British party spirit in Irish national affairs he is in fact securing s'Ireland's place among the nations of the world" and he Is in the last resort forging a spear head for her volunteers that may convert a civil muster into a national military resource that will give Ire. land its one weight in all unsettled. controversies. Accordingly American statistfcfans will not have failed to
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