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end and an excess OF riches Of
a few individuals at the other.
How are we TO increase the
wealth of ireland and ensure
that all producing It shall share
in itf That lathe question that
will be engaging the minds OF
our people and win engage the
attention of the new government.
KEYNOTE OF REVIVAL.
The keynote to the economic
revival must be the development
of Irish resources by Irish capi-
tai for the benefit OF the Irish
consumer In such q way that the
irish people have steady work at
Just remuneration and their own
share Of control.
How are we to develop Irish
resources?
Land must be freely, available.
Agriculture. our main industry.
must be improved, Our existing
industries must expand; new ones
must be created. Means OF tran
sit must be extended and cheap
ened. Our harbors must be de-
veloped. Our water power must
ba utilized. Foreign trade must
be stimulated by making facili-
ties for the transport and mar
ketins of Irish goods abroad and
foreign goods in Ireland. Inyes-
tore must be urged and encour-
aged to invest Irish capital in
Irish concerns. Taxation, where
IL hinders. must be adjusted, and
must be imposed where the bur-
den win fall lightest and can best
be borne, and where II win en-
courage rather than penalizs In
dustry.
We have now In Ireland, ow-
ing TO the restrictions put on
emigration during the European
war, a larger population Of young
men and women than we have
had for a great many years, For
their own sake and to maintain
the strength OF the nation room
must and can be found for them.
Agriculture is. and is likely TO
continue TO be our chief source
of wealth. II room is 20 be found
for our growing population land
must be freely available. Thous-
ands Of acres Of the best land lie
idle or occupied as ranches or
form part of extensive private
estates or are given over 20 sport.
While the fertile lands of kildare
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The development Of industry
In the new Ireland should be on
lines which exclude monopoly prof
It's. The product OF industry
would thus be left sufficiently
free 20 supply good wages to
those employed In It. The system
should be on cooperative lines
rather than on the old CONNER
ciaI capitalistio lines Of the huge
Joint stock companies. At the
same time I think We shall
safely avoid state socialism,
which has nothing TO commend 1t
In q country like Ireland. and in
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CEAEL COLLINS TELLS HOW THE INDUSTRIES OF IRELAND
CAN BE REJUVENATED TO MAKE LAND THRIVING AND HAP

and wcstmeath lie idle, men and
women have TO labor from dawn
TO late at night to win a bare
living out OF the rocks OF Done
gal, and families In Connaught
have to send their children TO
labor In the potato fields In
Scotland.
MUST GET LAND.
II the ranches can be broken
up. IL pressure can be brought
to bear on owners of land and
upon those who are Withholding
land SO that It may be suitably
used for procuring wealth. or CIV
ing employment. there win be op-
portunities opened up Tor all our
population.
When the so-oalied convention
sat in 1917 It was found that In
urban areas alone $1,000 houses
were urgently needed. The figure
must. at the present moment. be
considerably higher. The pro-
visionsi government announces a
grant 10 enable q considerable
number of houses TO be built.
For those who intend TO engage
In agriculture we require specialix-
ed education. Agriculture is In
these days q highly technical in
dustry. Scientific methods OF
farming and stock raising must
be introduced. We must have
the study Of specialized chemistry
TO aid us, We must establish In
dustries arising directly out of
agriculture, industries for the
utilization of the by-products of
the land--bones. bristies. hides for
the production of soda. glue and
other valuable substances.
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Everything Needful to General Prosperity and
Production of Wealth is Here, but We Must
Look TO Distribution" Warns COllinS-@We
Must Not Have DeStitution and Poverty"

mines. development of water
power. etc.--will belong to the
nation for the advantage OF the
whole nation. But Irish men
and women as private individ-
uais must do their share TO In
crease the prosperity OF the
country. Business cannot sue
ceed without capital and indi-
vidual initiative. Millions OF
Irish money are lying idle In
banks: The deposits In Irish
joint stock banks increased in
the aggregate by 7.sis.ooo pounds
during the half year ended
December 81, 1921. At that date
the total amount Of deposits and
cash balances in the Irish banks
was 1s4,ss1. 900 pounds, to which
I'm addition there was q sum of
almost $4,000. 900 pounds in the
Post office Savings Bank.
MUCH CAPITAL ABROAD
If Irish money were invested in
Irish industries to assist existing
ones, and to finance new enter
prises, there would be an enor-
nous development OF Irish COM
merce.
The Irish people have a large
amount of capital invested abroad.
with scope for our energies. with
restoration of our confidence,
the inevitable tendency viii be to-
wards return of this capital to
Ireland. II is for the Irish
people to take advantage Of these
opportunities. II they do not.
investors and exploiters from out
side win come in to reap the
rich profits. They will bring with
them all the evils that we want
to avoid In the new ireland.
A prosperous Ireland win mean
a united Ireland. With equitable
taxation and flourishing trade our
northwest countrymen viii need
no persuasion to come in and
share in the healthy economic life
Of the country.
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Ireland has three great natural
resources. Our coal deposits arc by
no means inconsiderabis. The bogs
of Ireland are estimated a. having
100000 million tons of peat fuel,
and water power concentrated In
her zS7 rivers and iso lakes. In
the opinion Of experts, reporting to
the Committee on the Water Power
Resources Of Ireland. from the
Irish lakes and rivers a total of
6oo,o ,ooo horsepower is capable of
being developed. The magnitude
Of this is more readily seen II II is
appreciated that TO raise this
power In steam would require
100000 tons OF coal.
Schemes have been worked out
TO utilize the water power Of the
Shannon. the Erne, the Bann and
the Liffey.
MARKET FOR GOODS.
II viii be important to create
efficient machinery for the
economic marketing of Irish
goods. A first step in this d.
rection is the establishment OF a
clearing house in Dublin or the
most convenient center. II would
examine and take delivery of
goods going out and coming in, deal
ing with the financial business for
both sides. Such a concern would
require capital and able and sx.
perienced management. II would
be invaluable in helping our home
and foreign trade.
The profits from all these ma
tional enterprises-the working of
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any case is monopoly OF another
kind,
Given favorable conditions there
is a successful future for dressed
meat Industries on the lines OF
the huge cooperative industry
started In wexford-while there
are many opportunities for the
extension OF dairying and cheese
making.
MUST EXTEND DAIRYING.
The industries we possess are
nearly all capable of expansion.
We can improve and extend all the
following: brewing and distilling;
manufacture Of tobacco; woolen
and linen industry; manufacture of
hosiery and underclothing; rope
and twine industry; manufacture
Of boots and shoes; production of
hardware and agricultural ma
chinery. and curing Of fish.
There are facilities for producing
an enormous variety Of products,
both for the home and foreign mar
kets, II the factories could be es-
tablished. These should as far as
possible be dispersed about the
country instead of being concen-
trated In a few areas. This dis
persai will not only have the ef-
feet Of avoiding congestion, but will
incidentally improve the status and
earnings of the country population
and win In addition enlarge their
horizon.
Let me again emphasize that 1
am not advocating the establish
ment Of an industrial system as
other countries know industrialism.
II we are TO survive as distinct
and free nation Industrial develop
ment must be on the general lines
I am following. whatovcw tho so
luton Of the question may be wo
all realize that the present indus
trial status quo II imperfect.
And with this question of labor
and industry is. as appears above,
interviewer the question OF Land.
IL is no less important TO have our
foundations secure here.
KIND OF RESOURCES
In the development OF Ireland
the land question presents itself
under four main headings, and be-
fore referring to the utilization of
our resources let me summarize
them:
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HOW AMERICAN
PROPAGANDA

<<r7HE Enolsh looked do,on upon Americans. One
of them aorites: The of the North Anert-
cans are too proud to learn and too ignorant TO teach
and having established themselves by Acts Of Congress
as The most enlightened people Of the ioord they od
faiy 10 reta their barbarism from regard to con-
sisterey' From School History Of the United States,
on Albert Bushnell Hart Revised 1920, P. 176.
By CHARLES GRANT MILLER.
Professor Hart in this is teaching American children
In the public schools concerning period 100 years ago
And he adds this comment:
Americans a hundred years ago were the same sort
of people as Americans nowadays'
Professor Hart is only one of a dozen and more
Brticized historians who have been recently revising
or rewriting American school histories and insistenty
presenting to our children the British impressions OF
Americans to the defamation of national heroes,
the distortion of our true annals, perverson OF our
republican principles and bettlement of achieve
ments and prestige. The purpose, openly proclaimed
by some and clearly manifest in ALL is
union.>
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/. The completion of purchase
OF tenanted lands;
2. The extension and increase of
powers OF purchase Of untenanted
lands;
8. The question OF congestion In
rural districts;
4. The utilization Of lands oc-
cupied or withheld in urban areas.
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braries, Foundation for Advance
ment of Teaching, Aid for yocs-
tional Education. Association for
international Cancellation, and, by
no means least seductive, the pen
zion funds for professors and
teachers.
EFFECT ON TEACHERS.
Direct and vital effects of the
organized influences for Britictsa-
tion are readily. detected and
clearly identified In utterances Of
innumerabie teachers' associs-
tons throughout the country In
the last few years. These are
fairly typified and summarized in
the report of the American His
toricsl Association submitted TO
the United States Congress, oc-
tober %, 1918.
Attention Ia directed to the
American Revolution I'm our
old charge that the study Of the
schools tends to promote an anti.
British state Of mind. Observing
further that this state Of mind
might oopceivably hamper CO.
operation with our British ally. It
h . natural reaction TO demand
revision Of our text books with .
view to the cultivation Of q pro
British state Of mind, and that re-
action Is now actually m evidence"
PEOPLE MUST ACT.
This reaction is now actually
in evidence" indeed, to such extent
that American school children to-
day are being taught through alter
ed American histories that Magma
Charta is the real source of our
liberties, while the Declaration OF
Independence marks no epoch IN
the evolution OF free government:
that the American revolution was
merely "civil war" between t'.s
English people and their Ger
man" king; that our forefathers
were too ignorant to know that
they never were oppressed; that
such patriot leaders as Patrick
Henry, John Hancock and Samuel
Adams were mere disreputable
characters; that the United States
Constitution and all our free tn
stitutions are borrowed from Eng
land; that the war Of 1919 was "a
mistake" and an unfortunate con
flict between the sister nations CT
the English tongue" and that
American history. hitherto dis
torted in our school books through
an unthinking adherence 10 trsdi-
tionsl prejudices," is now being
set right.
The course for q warned and
awakened public 10 take is clear:
the great patriotic organizations
are leading the way. In every oonr-
munity the people have power 20
control the tsachinss in the pub
nc schools. They must forcibiy
demand that the American history
taught be true and patriotic. They
must see TO n that the treason
tsxts are thrown cut.
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Cat Weighs Is Pounds

PoRTLAND, Ore, April a.
Miss Thelna Flint is the mistress
Of a house cat which. on his sisv.
enth birthday. tipped the scales at
twenty-five pounds. This 10 twice
the weight Of an ordinary mature
cat.
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that the Irish people will not be
crushed by destitution into living
practically "the lives of the
beasts" They were so crushed
during the British occupation that
they were described as being
without the comforts Of an Eng
lish SOW" Neither must they be
obliged owing to unsound eco
nomic conditions TO spend all their
powers of both mind and body in
an effort TO satisfy the bodily
needs alone.
The uses OF wealth are to pro-
vide good health, comfort, mod
evate luxury. and to give the
freedom which comes from the
possession Of these things.
Our object in building UP the
country economically must not
be lost sight Of, That object Is
not to be able to boast OF enor-
nous wealth or OF a great volume
of trade. for their own sake. II
is not to see our country covered
with smoking chimneys and fac
tories. 1t Is not to show a great
national balance sheet nor to
point TO people producing
wealth with the self-obliteration
of a hive Of bees"
ERINs REAL RICHES.
The real riches of the Irish ma
ton win be the men and women
of the Irish nation tthe extent to
which they are rich In body and
mind and character). r.
What we want is the opportu-
nifty for everyone to be able to
produce sufficient wealth TO en-
sure these advantages for them
selves. That much wealth can be
produced In Ireland there can be
no doubt, for the island Is so en-
dowed with so many dowries Of
nature, considering the fruitful
ness of the soil, the ports, the
rivers, the fishings, and especial
ly the race and generation of
men, valiant. hard, and aotive, as,
1t is not easy TO find such a con-
fluence of commodities.
Everything needful to general
prosperity and the production of
wealth is here, but we must look
to the distribution. What we
must aim at is the building up OF
a sound economic life in which
great discrepancies of welfare will
not occur. We must not have
the destitution Of poverty at one
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name any large book publishing
house in the United States which
Is not dominated by un-American
influences and pervaded by foreign
atmosphere. Our current litera-
ture is everything but patriotic
We are flooded with books erotic,
neurotic and tommyrotic, but
never patriotic.
Our collegiate system has no
toriously fallen into hypnotic
trance; while the public schools in
every State have adopted one or
more Of the revised histories which
teach our children that our national
annals, as made and handed down
TO us by our forefsthers, are false,
and that the truth Of the birth and
ideals of our Republic must be
gathered from British versions.
LECTURE PROPAGANDA.
The lecture platform has become
almost monopolized by imported
propa sandists and homegrown
but Apslioized syoophants preach
ing to us national pusillananimity
in the name of peace.
College presidents, distinguished
less as educators than as procur.
ers of funds, are going up a-d
down our Land extolling "rhs In
ternational Mind" and more than
a hundred public libraries already
have installed International Al
coves." where denstionslizing dope
10 dealt out on purpose to deaden
American spirit.
"Ths Division Of Intsroourss
and Education OF the Carnegie
Institute and the American Assoc
citation for international Conoilia-
tion." Or. Nicholas Murray Butie-
needlessly assures us. Is only too
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and ideals all favor, riorify and
eIalt imperialism. expansion and
exploitation; while the United
States Constitution, history and
ideals arc fiIedly opposed.
So II Ia easy TO zee why our
fundamental principles arc being
discredited, our history rewritten
and our ideals destroyed, at be-
hest Of the super-powcr, which is
neither British nor Americsn, but
knows no patriotism and recox-
nixes no country but rs subject for
exploitation.
This power. Il II can persuade
the American people to surrender
our inherited sources OF inspira-
ton, strength and guidance viii
control also the government poll.
cies Of the United States.
America is safe only II we SEQ
to it that tho historic truths, prin.
ciples, ideals and purposes that
have served us unfaitingly
through a century and n half Of
unparalleled prestige be preserved
unsullied I'm our own generation
and transmitted unimpaircd 70 our
children The antidote to the
propaganda poison lies In pa
triotic teaching In the public
schools.
sUPER-POwER DESIGN.
The educational foundations,
which have come to exercise ini-
measurable influences upon the
scholastic and public school sys-
TENS of the United States, are off
spring OF the international bank
ing power, as a glance at their in
terlocking directorstes and a ssno
thought as to the habitusl prac-
tees and intuitivs purposes Of
their founders clearly reveal.
Ehhu Root. high In the Car
negie Council, and Charles E.
Hughes, regnsnt In the Rockefeller
Foundation, illustrate at once the
direotness Of connection with and
the completeness OF design Of the
super-powsr.
The muitiform Carnegie institu-
tons were endowed from motives
which Carnegie himself never
sought TO conceal. His fondest
prophecy. which at the time OF Its
wide publication was deemed msre.
ly fantssticsl. Ia this:
Let men say what thcy Win. I
say that a. sure - the sun In the
heavens once shone ON Britain and
America united, 40 surely h u oro
morning 10 rise, .ahtne upon and
greet again the reunited states,
the British-Amevacan Union. An.
drew Carnegie; Triumphant De-
mooracy ussO Page s1s,
For reasons readily guessed, II
recently has been seen at TO with
draw from the market the 1893
edition containing this prophecy
and a whole chapter In the same
strain. But the spirit OF n cor.
tinuas to find expression and
fruitson Through the Carnegie la
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the spirit of that freedom. we want
such widely diffused prosperity
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By MICHAEL COLLINS,
DUBLIN, APRIL %.

MFR. DE VALERA in recent speech warned the
1v1 people of Ireland against life Of ease against
living practically the life of beass which, he fears,
they may be tempted to do in Ireland under the Free
State. "..- 4, ..--' .,
The chance that materialism will take possession Of
the Irish people is likely in free Ireland under
free state than it would be in free Ireland under
a republican any other form of government. 1t is
in the hands of the Irish people themselves.
In the ancient days of Gaelic civilization the people
were prosperous and they not materiasts. They
were one of the most spiritual and of the most in
telectual peoples in Europe When Ireland was swept
by destituton and famine the spirit of the Irish people
came most nearly to extinction. 1t with the i'm
proved economic conditions of the last twenty years
more that it has reawakened The insstent needs Of
the body adequately satisfied the people regained
desire once to reach out to the higher things in
which the spirit finds its satisfaction.
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EQUALIZE TAXES,
STIMULATE TRADE,
ADVICE OF LEADER

Idle Lands and Resources Should BE Made
Available to the People, and Capital Should
BE Encouraged, Says Head of the Provisional
Government of the Irish Free State.
z@" BY MICHAEL COLLINS,
Head of the Provisional Government Itsh Free State
Minister of Finance Irish Republic.
Chairman Committee NoW Drafting Consultation of Irish
Free State. .s. l
Chief of Intelligence Department, Irish Republican Army
Special Cable to Universal Service .>F
N (Cspyrixbt In Great and
lCopyrixh % 8.
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What we hope Tor In the new
Ireland In to have such material
welfare as win give the Irish
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KIND OF RESOURCES
MUST EXTEND DAIRYING.

In the development OF Ireland
the land question presents itself
under four main headings, and be-
fore referring to the utilization of
our resources let me summarize
them:
The Washington herald., 1922-03-02
TWO WOMEN Held
~AlDING" PRISONER
Charge of Carrying Liquor
Placed Against Friends
OF "W. B. Johnson"

b, While on their way to assist a
friend who was locked up at the
Eighth precinct. station early Mon
day two women were arrested
and taken to the precinct station.
where both IL. we're charged with
transporting liquor.
They gave their names as Betty
Eva wiley, IS years old. and
Blanche Herman. 20 years old. both
of 2sl5, Fourteenth street north
west. and are said to have been car
ryipg more than half a gallon Of
liquor between them. -
The friend. Warren Bryan john
p son, who resides at the same place.
was arrested at his home on charges
. OF assault and carrying concealed
weapons, Police say johnson. ac-
companied by the two women. drove
into the Liberty garage at 4 o'clock
yesterday morning and Sattempted
to hold-up Shirley Cladswell, an en-
'ploye. They left after failing to
obtain. any money.
An hour later Johnson's machine
was found IN front of the Four
teenth street home. The police en-
tered the place and arrested him.
Half an hour later the women
started out to: see, IL they could
help him. When detained at Four
teenth and U streets northwest.
they told Policeman J. r. Leach
they intended delivering the liquor
after which they hoped to assist
Johnson Johnson, II is said, will
be taken, to court this morning.
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DEFICIENCY BILL 3
CARRIES Al0,s6s
DISTRICT RELIEF
Estimates Cut s72,S5O
But $4,000 Allowed for
Clearing OF Snow.


In the second deficiency bill for
1922, reported to the HoiSse yes.
lterday. s4io.sss.3I Is included Tor
the District Of Columbia.
This Is s72.sso less than thu es-
innate. The Federal goyernment
estiTates were cut S7s,5os. ssl.3a.
The total amount for the FEDERAL
establishment IL s1os.4l5,zsTI3.
Appropriation recommended for
the District include $4,000 for
maintenance and operation of sew
ers and $4,000 for sewer assess
ment and permit work.
Allotment of $4,000 to the street
department TO defray the expenses
tcaused by the recent snowstorm In
removing snow and S1o.5l2.se for
fuel. gas. and electric light def,-
ciepcies for 1891 are items.
sspreme Court AIIewaire.
The Supreme Court will KeksIo,-
| 900 for jurors fees, $1,000 for bal
liffs. and $500 for witnesses Cen
eral advertising in 1891 Is to re-
ceiye s1.746. Maintenance, trans
portation and support Of convicts is
allotted $4,000. An item of 1000
for Jurors in Municipal Court and
5000 for contingent expenses In
1921 and 1922 is allowed.
For the Washington Asylum and
Jail for 1920. 3i.3e7. and for 1921.
S1.244 are allowed. Maintenance Of
the National Training School for
Boys will get $3.50 for 1871
Commissioners' estimates Of Ss,-
500 are cut to 5000 for the present
fiscal year and s1,17o for 1921 for
the Central Dispensary and Emer-
gency Hospital. The Eastern Dis
pensary and Casualty Hospital are
to receive s6.7o0. The board of
tenance OF feeble minded children
Is given $500, and for care and
board OF children. $1,000 is provided
Lodging House Fu.d Denied.
Rejection Of estimates of $1,000
for maintenance and $33.00o for
erection of new municipal lodging
house. is included by the committee.
INDECENT insane support will receive
sl4S.000. For audited claims s1,s15.
and for the payment OF, judgments
s1.4oo are carried.
Extension Of the water distribu-
tion system Is to get $4,000 as a
part appropriation.
No provision is made by the COM
mittee for $4,000, 900 asked for by
the Shipping Board for the compile
tion of vessels now under construc-
ton. Also in the reductions Is 3s0.-
1ss,82l.s6 for naval establishment.
No direct appropriation is provided
for by the committee for naval es-
tablishment