The Irish standard., 1920-02-28
CraWfOrd'S Master
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, in that country In their effort to show
Ireland to be on the wing of pros.
perity and contentment. They have
little to say, however. about the fact
that the human population of Ireland
has dropped from S,295, 900 in 1S41 to
4,390,000 in 1911. Their own argu-
ment would seem to be an admission
that the Irish policy Of the British
Government has been to convert Ire
land into pasture for the raising Of
beef to feed Britons.
Mr.. Coote draws line of demarka-
'tion as between the people of Ireland
and the people of Ulster" saying "the
Ulster people are practical people
and have devoted their energies not to
political agitation but to industry and
commerce. Celtic Ireland. outside the
frontiers Of Ulster. has idled."
II it be true that the people Of
Ulster are more practical and indus.
trious, and therefore more prosperous
/, and happy. than the rest of the Irish
people, why Is 1t that the population
of Ulster has fallen in even greater
alto than the population of the other
hree provinces, to be exact, from g.
1856 900 to 1.5S2,000, between the years
1841 and 1911. The attempt to make
he people of Ulster seem a people
separate and apart from the people of
Leinster, Munster and Connaught is
he most unfair of all the false i'm.
pressions foisted by the British propa.
gandists upon the uniformed outside
world. The delegation has blandly set
out to deceive Americans into believ
ing that the people of Ulster are united
for British rule, whereas the truth is
that the division of parliamentary
seats in Ulster itself, gives the Union.
lists majority of only two, the figures
being Unionist %; Sim Fein (Repub-
ican) 16; Nationalist (Self-Determi-
nation) s.
The attempt to have Americans be-.
We Ulsier the richest province in
ireland is, like the other endeavors at
deception, based on a foundation of
untruth. The ratable value of Ulster
per head of it's population, according
70 the last British conducted census
Q911) was 80 shillings. The same
authority gives the ratable value per
head of the people of Leinster at 80
shillings.
Ulster is as much part of Ireland
IS the State of Maine is a part of the
United States and the people of Ulster
IRE as positively Irish as the people
II Paris are positively French. They
are historically opposed to British rule
and the very flag of the Irish repub.
lie was first uhfurled by Theobald
Wolfe Tone at McArt's Fort, Cave
Hill. Belfast, the spot where the first
solemn VOW never to rest until the
people Of Ireland lived free and indie.
pendently as q nation was taken by
he forerunners Of the present Irish
republicans; and 1t might be said that
hese progenitors Of the struggle to
establish a republic in Ireland were
not Catholics but Protestants for the
lost part, fact which even Mr..
cote and his colleagues cannot deny.
dr. Coote insinuates that Ulster is a
reat Industrial territory throbbing
With the machinery of myriad plants
and factories, while the rest of ire
land is devoted entirely to simple little
arms. The fact Is that agriculture is
he most important industry of Ulster
md that the weaving of linen fabrics
:omes second. Still another illusion
shattered by facts is the assertion that
Ulster is homogeneous, Protestant and
Jnionist, an assertion upon which the
}nfonists now are asking for a sepa-
| rate life for Ulster as a province Of
England in case the Irish Republic is
ecognized by the governments of the
'arth. Catholics compose 1877 per
:ent of the total population of Ulster
and no other single denomination can
roast of more than 26.6 per cent-this
or the Presbyterians. Episcopalians
comprise 1872 per cent and Methodists
,ut 81 per cent. AS to the attitude
II the people Of Ulster politically, Sir
edward Carson, the Unionist leader,
even at the moment of his greatest ap.
peal, the time of the signing of the
Covenant two years before the war,
admitted following of only 447,000
out Of total adult population (over
l6) Of 1,074.000. showing that 1000
refused to say they preferred English
autocracy over their own right to live
as free people in democratic coun-
try. And there is also wide gulf be-
tween the total number Of Protestants
In Ulster and the total number of
| COVonantora as will ha ah0vn nv tho