The New York herald., 1922-08-06
ireland, Firmly Founded, viii
Challenge World. as Producer

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Ireland, Firmly Founded, viii
Challenge World as Producer
The process of evolution of the new
Ireland can be divided into three
stages. First the stage of 1.-The hellish
Iinterlude" of the present, leaving, after
the storm has blown itself out, the
Irish Frea State in being. although
not in its present form or in any form
foreseen by sither Irish or British
statesmen. Then the stage of taking
bearings and reconstruction. when
the schemes which have been shaping
themselves during the last three years
will take a more or less final form,
and Irelands hardest task will begin
the schooling and technical educa-
ton of the country the energies of
which have dissipated themselves
throughout 700 years of political fight
ing, and the turning of those energies
! into new constructive channels in the
face of the many failures which will
have TO be faced. Lastly, the stage when
Ireland. firmly founded upon her ex-
pertinent in ''individualist coopera-
ton" written about in previous ar
/ tlcle, will challenge the world as pro-
! ducer of commodities and, as the wri-
ter with many thousands OF his coun-
| trymen believes, will send out to the
world her old inspirational message
in a new form through her poets.
writers and artists, who even now are
showing themselves. In three words,
the periods will be revolution, devolu-
! Get it firmly fixed in your mind
tfat whatever storms may break over
''the Isle of Saints within the next
months. the emotional period of the
1916 fiashpont intensity is past for
/ this generation. The sub-conscious
mind of Ireland will still hold the idea
of independence, as always, but it will
not take form in our day and genera
tion through action. Nations, like in
divduals. have only a certain amount
of energy: it takes nature at least a
generation to bank up steam for an
other outbreak of that energy. Per-
haps the world events now shadowing
| themselves, combined with the recon-
struction of Ireland impending, will
never again make il necessary for Ire
! land to express herself through action.
\ FIOlGCIIHS lHuHStIicS ny
Keeping Workers at Home
\ The man power of Ireland is for the
first time in seventy years being held
and her population keeping its total.
/ The Dali Eireann proclamation of April
last year against emigration. making
il criminal offense for Shipping or
Emigration agents to issue tickets TO
/ 10 cynir,o m bo nd ia rt
| i-.. already having a striking effect
upon emigration. The United States
a: least must make up her mind that
she will get little labor in future from
/ Ireland. The Ireland of tomorrow
means to keep her own people. and
now the American captains of industry
will have To look more than ever 10
the Latin races for man power.
/ So far as wages are concerned, al
ready | have seen paysheets showing
that even in the poorest districts like
those of the Rosses in the northwest,
girls are earning on piecework from
4 $6- to S11 a. week for an eight hour
/ day of actual work The cooperative
factories pay on an average to the
girls IS to SO week. Laborcrs can
earn anything up to $40 and S12 a
week. Wages in all grades of work
compare very favorably for the en-
ploycr with American rates. The Ire
land of the future will be an Ireland
o. small holdings with all the big cs-
tates gone forever and the landlord
but an evil memory.
| will deal first OF all with this ques-
ton of the man in to-morrow's Ire
lend on yhe economic side, and will
! show roughly where he should stand
within the next few years.
! The coming of a strong Labor party
will certainly bring the average wage
UP TO the best standard rates in Eu-
rope, but well below the best Amcri-
can rates Within decade we shall
see throughout Ireland one Of the first
\ European experiments In national
labor supply which will inevitably
spring out OF the national power sup
ply system now actually taking form.
Under the national labor supply, we
shall SEQ an elastic system, by which
full personal freedom will be guaran-
tied (the individualist Irishmsn would
stand nothing else). but under which
il will be possible to transfer labor
\ from INDUSTRIES WHICH dft iiiiiE ~
Industries which arc rising. all with
tho full consent of the worker, and so
keep = sort Of automatic steam gov
ernor upon the market and prevent the
screws Of state from racing. The
reason these two national systems Of
man and machine will he possible 10
only because Ireland stands almost
alone in her concept NJ cooperation
with freedom. "Tndividualist coopera-
tion.' in q word.
Under this system. We shall see Ire
lands bounteous natural sources Of
power utilized to tho last unit Ire
land has no old time ncrustations to
scrap-she starts young and fresh.
She has no vested interests to-day 10
no plncated, and ss she Is going to he
literally. as she says herself. Trina
rOge. or "thc country of youth she
viii. after the usual failures and
bitches. perhaps surprise tho world, II
not heraelf--for her self-conidence Is
msrnidcent--hv installing something
radically now in production
n must he made clear that none Of
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Already she has bad an exhaustive