The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-12-02

shortage of food Ireland must starve
to feed England.
Agriculture Not Taught in "National'
Schools.
An Ireland educated to the para
mount Importance of scientific and
economic farming might be alive to
the danger of another English made
famine, but England, with a fiendish
thOrOughness, made the schools of Ire
land her first care.
The curriculum of the National
schools" in Ireland includes no sub.
ject that can assist in any way in
making the study of agriculture profit.
able or interesting, and so the Irish
farmers have acquired sort of hand,
to-mouth fatalism, gambling with their
products whenever and wherever it
offers. England at this moment is
dangling big prices for his products in
front of the Irish farmer.
Patriotism is not lacking in Ireland,
but thanks to England economic edu-
cation is, and the farmers continue
shipping their stuff to England be.
cause English prices tempt them. Ire.
land will be once again the Robinson
Crusoe' she was in Al with a large
supply of hard cash and nothing left
to buy on the island. No organized
effort has been yet made to hold the
harvest in Ireland other than leaflet
by the writer for distribution through
out Ireland, telling in simple language
the danger of famine and suggesting
what should be done by the individual.
| give the following extracts from the
leaflet mentioned above:
Money, money everywhere, and not
a bite to eat"
Irish Women and Men Prepare.
1t takes year to raise harvest
it takes but week to starve.
Cd Secure and hide enough food,
bacon, potatoes and pre-
served eggs to feed you till next har.
vest.
(2) Cure more bacon, raise more
ducks, fowl and pigs. Keep your cattle.
90 Lay in a supply of canned,
dried and preserved foods, especially
milk for children.
"a Remember that in AZ people
died of starvation with plenty of cash
in the house.
60 Remember that you can't eat
cash.
60 England needs your food and
cattle to feed her troops. England
will let you starve to feed herself.
CD The Canadian government al
ready reports that more than half her
wheat crop has failed. We use her
flour, so THIS MEANS DEARER
BREAD AND FLOUR FOR US.
50 Remember our dead leaders
words and HOLD THE HARVEST.
The difficulty and danger of printing
this leafiet can be appreciated only
when it is known that it is now ell
Legal to possess private printing
press in Ireland and that without a
search warrant any person can be ar.
rested, his house ransacked, and he
can be kept in Jail for an indefinite
period, without any charge being made
against him. This leaflet, or one of
a similar nature, should be widely
distributed in Ireland before the har.
vest is all in. A few of the intelligent
women or men released from prison
for participation in the rising should
be sent quickly all over Ireland to
organize emergency depots. The first
to suffer in food shortage will be
the poor Irish laborer and small shop.
keeper, most of whom have large fam.
lilies, and are entirely unorganized.
AS there are no funds available to
pay an organizer. Instantaneous, in.
terested in the fate of their country,
might set this useful work on foot at
once.
1t is mainly the Iaborer and small
in Ireland who have sup
piled the brain and sinew that has
built up the great American republic
and in his fate America will conse.
quently be most interested.
The Boer men fought undauntedIy
against the flower of the British army
them at every point, TIL the
British rounded up the Boer women
and children in concentration camps
The tragic story is we'll known. TWEEN
ty-two thousand of them persisted and
the sight of their starving families un
manned the Boer men. They surren
dered to the cries of their little ones
as they never would have done to the
British bayonets.
England knows how to use fam
inc.
Let Ireland beware and be on he1
guard.
ST. CLARA COLLEGE, s,NsINAwA
WISCONSIN,.