The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-26
ENGLAND'S DIFFICULTY.


 nected with what is called Young Ireland movement in the forties of the lcst century, eliminating in an inglorious collapse in AS, used to insist that England's difficulty was Ireland's opportunity.
 Not in q hundred years has Eng land been confronted with any such a difficulty as it now faces, and the time would appear to bc ripe for ac- tion along the counsel of the leadera of the AS movement.
 But much has changed since those days, and not least tho views of the Irish people themselves. They have been fed upon politics and parlia- mentarianism and the physical fore ists have been voices crying ill the wilderness of parliamentary debates
 The organization Of such an un- compromisingly radical movement as the Sein Finn, found only halt hearted support among q people whose ideals were not much different from the ideals across the water. or the peasantry who after years ot agrarian struggle which had been killed with the kindness of Land Purchase acts and other things. lapsed into the contentment of the type which is satisfied so long as its oats is harvested and marketed and the potatoes sell at q satisfactory price per bushel.
 The militant patriotism of the Young Ireland movement and the Fenians had submerged itself in the half hearted political effort tha. worked it's agricultural laborers ths limit in time and the least ill pay. while grooming because the land lord refused to it a 20 per cent re- duction in the rents they could only take out of the laborer's hide. This effort reaches it's climax at a League meeting where say, MT. James O'Toole discussed the coercion act. and after Father Kelly P. P. had urged all to contribute liberally to the Irish Parliamentary fund, the band discoursed a choice selection of national airs.
 In such there was hardly to be discerned even the embers of the fires of '98 or tho spiritual re- nascence of the AS movement. Yet withal there surely lived many d man in whom there still existed the hope that the day would come when England's difficulty would be Ire lands opportunity.
 To forecast future events however is dangerous policy. But it is al- most to be hazarded with some de. gree of surety that this revolt if it can be called such, now reported, is doomed to an even speedicr ex- tinction than that which overwhelm- ed other abortive up-risings. A cOun- try or a race fed upon the pap Ot parliamentarianism is little adapted to the violence of rebellion. It is certainly true that he national aims must have widened into a plain Of idealism in which the sordid ma terialism of political shenanigan has no part, before the people will be ready to shed their hearts blood for what is in the last analysis a sentiment.
 The men who scrambled for jobs in the Royal Irish Constabulary, for positions on petty governing boards, for the hire of Dublin Castle, are not likely to suffer from any super fluous enthusiasm to risk their necks in any chasing of the phanthom of national independence in the strict literal sense of the term.
 Every cent in savings bank in Ireland, every acre owned by mar every store well stocked, every barnyard well found, is buttress or British rule in Ireland and fost- erer of a sentiment which wonld leave we'll enough alone and deplore any instability of social things might follow an uprising.
 We know that the viewpoint ot most Irishment is entirely different to this; that long exiled or but 8 short while they have fed the emp- CTS of the fires of nationalism with the undying zeal of their hearts