The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-11-11
WEEKLY COMMENTARY ON LAT.
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formed, the dealers profits were sew
enty per cent, enough in all conscience
to satisfy the most grasping of the
lot. But they are not satisfied at this,
and now have doubled the prices. OF
course one result, and probably the
most deplorable, will be that the child
rem of the poor will be the most acute
sufferers. Already the prices Of all
necessaries of life are at ruinous
figure, but this mean and avaricious
advance on the price of necessity
indispensable to the poor makes the
situation at once deplorable and in
tolerable.
But the scheming ringsters do not
care one jot. So long as they rake
in their miserable profits, just so long
may the children of Dublin's wretched
poor wither and starve and die and
fill nameless graves in the Potter's
Field.
Treated Like Beasts.
1.-THE men are housed in the
malt stores of an old distillery.
They sleep in four badly lighted
and ventilated rooms. They get
up semi-dazed and choking, and
on the verge of collapse. Rats
run riot in the dormitories, and at
night are particularly unpleasant.
The stencil from the lavatories
adds considerably to our discom-
fort. The food is poor
and insufficient, and the diet
never VARIES"
No! The above does not refer to
English prisoners in Germany, Bull
garia or Turkey. 1t only refers to
the Sim Fein prisoners in "enlight-
ened and progressive England" That
is the way they are treated, according
to letter received from one of them
by Alderman Byrne, M. p, and read
by that gentleman at the meeting Of
the Dublin Corporation last week. Con-
tinuing, Alderman Byrne said that for
refusing to identify prisoner wanted
for the army, the whole camp was
penalized, letters, papers and visits
being stopped for week. The men
continuously suffer from neuralgia,
toothache, colds, ETC., and their health
is seriously impaired. One man had
lost his reason; he wandered in the
fields, and for that got solitary con-
finement on bread and water.
Is not this terrible picture of the
brutal manner in which these Sim
Feiners, many of them educated gen.
tlemen, are being treated? And yet
in face of the lOathsome recital, the
Lord Mayor of Dublin peremptorily
ruled out of order resolution sub
mitted by Mr.. Byrne asking IAN am
nesty for the untried Irish political
prisoners in English prisons; pending
amnesty, that they be treated as po-
litical prisoners, and that 20 members
of the Council cooperate with the
National and Labor bodies for the
holding of an all-Ireland convention
to establish an Amnesty Association"
This man Gallagher, who misrepre-
sents Dublin as its Lord Mayor, also
refused to form one of deputation
to wait on the Lord Lieutenant and
ask pardon for Mr.. P. Mahon, M. P,
whose only offense was that he was
publisher of the Irish Volunteer" a
weekly paper edited by Eoin MacNeill.
And yet in face of this brutal treat
ment of Irish political prisoners, Mr..
Redmond and his followers wonder
why the Irish youth do not join the
English army.
Anti-Irish Crusade.
The mean and bitter crusade against
the Irish in England continues to be-
come more bitter and more mean.
Prejudice is being extensively excited
against the Irish, firstly by reason of
the bitterness with which certain Sec
tions of the Tory press are clamoring
for the application Of compulsion to
Ireland; and, secondly, because of the
cutlery against those Irishmen of mill
tary age who have been induced by
the labor exchanges to come over to
England and undertake harvesting and
other temporary work on the under
standing that they would not be sub
ject to CONSUMPTION.
An Irishman who is prominent in
London business activities is quoted
by q Dublin newspaper as asserting
that it had taken his fellow country.
men in Great Britain over a quarter
of century to overcome the old re-
buff everywhere encountered of "No
Irish need apply" but that now it was
being revived in every direction, and
II this hostility continued to progress
at the present rate, Irishmen would
find it impossible to hold their own
in the struggle for existence in Lon
don and elsewhere in England. Re-
Gently, since the fortunes of war have
taken more favorable turn for the
Allies, this anti-Irish feeling has in
3tensified. Until rather lately it was
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