Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-17
BY James NJ. Tuohy.


Staff Correspondent of the Albuquer-
que Journal and New York World.)
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
galway Aug. 16.--I4ike most other
Irish towns, the most conspicuous
structural endowments conferred on
Galway by the paternal foresight of
the government are the Jail and the
workhouse. The natural pendant to
these is always imposing military bar
racks to catch the percentage of the
ablebodied young men to whom the
economic and political conditions pre-
sented the alternatives of the work
house, the JAIL emigration or the Brit
ish army.
The standing army has always in
cluded--uAtil recently--an Irish ele-
ment immensely out of proportion to
the population of the country, COM
pared with England and Scotland.
Irish soldiers have won renown on
every battlefield where Great Britain
has conquered; their blood has flowed
freely for the expansion of British
power and wealth throughout the
world, while their own country has
been benefited, least of all England S
possessions from that sacrifice
1t may be argued with force that
England has traded in this respect on
the results of her neglect and misgov-
ernment of Ireland to extend and
consolidate her wealth. in every quar-
ter of the globe. In return Mr.. Lloyd
George requites the Irish in 1919 by
sending them Mr.. Ian Macpherson,
with the coercion act in one hand and
the defense of the realm act in the
other. And yet, such is the monumen-
tai ingratitude of these people, they
actually venture to look this gift
horse in the mouth. y
Ga.way has a population a little
over $4,000, showing a great shrink
age since the union, although it stands
at the head of one of the finest navi-
gable estuaries in the three kingdoms,
one whose development in the nation
al course of things by a government
having any real interest in the coun-
try would have long ago made it a
great port of transshipment for Trans
Atlantic trade. Numerous schemes
have been brought forward by private
promoters TO avail of the immense
natural advantages of the port, but
the government has never given them
interests of Liverpool and other Brit
ish ports, combined with the govern
mental indifference to Irish require
ments, have proved fatal to them all.
Best Lands Grazing Tracts.
Galway county is one of the irish
counties where since the union the
tents have been cleared periodically
off the best lands to turn them into
grazing tracts, driving the peasantry
to exist upon uncommon holdings
that is. holdings which cannot pro-
duce the rent and even the barest
subsistence for their occupants, who
are obliged to eke out their meager
livelihood by sending their men and
women to England and Scotland to
assist in gathering the harvest every
year.
These areas are now scheduled as
"congested DISTRICTS and law was
made some years ago-after the men
who had agitated for it had under
gone the usual experience of being
slandered, prosecuted and imprisoner
by the British press and the govern
men under which the congested
districts board is given power to
take, IL necessary compulsorily with
adequate momentary compensation
parts of these grazing ranches tc
split them up among the tenants who
cannot extract even the meanest Nv
ing out of their uneconomic holdings
These are the kind of shifts By
which the successive governments
seek to mitigate the consequences o.
neglect, parsimony and maladminis
tration when they have failed to per
petuate them by coercion and misrep
resentation.
Sufferings of DIR. Walsh.
1t is not surprising to find that Gal.
way Is q strong Sim Fein center, ant