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The Repiihiic
--Not to repeal the Union, but the Conquest;
not the Constitution tVoife Tone died to abolish,
but the Constitution Tone died to obtain.”
-Fizztan Lalor.
VOL. 1.] January 31st, 1907. [No. 8.
Dungannon Clubs. . . .
A meeting of the Executive Committee
was held on Friday last. john MacDermott
was appointed organiser for the Dungannon
Clubs, and will commence work through
Ulster by the first week in February.
A scheme for the insurance of members
against interference with their liberty by the
English Government was discussed, and it
was decided that it should be put into opera-
tion immediately, and that after 1st February
members of any Sinn Fein organisation can
effect insurances under the scheme. All com-
munications respecting the scheme can be
addressed to the Secretary Dungannon Clubs,
114 Royal Avenue, Belfast.
An article dealing with this matter appears
in this week's issue.
The “ National Democrat.” . .
A ce.m nme pmtce to any paper working
for national Democracy. The “National
Democrat” has just been started in Dublin,
as a penny monthly, and its first number gives
promise of good work for Ireland.
‘We are sick ofthe z'nlrrmzlz'omzZ democrat,
who has little effect on Ireland except to further
Anglicise the country, and make her more
dependent on England, the man who wants
Irish social and democratic movements to
amalgamate or affiliate with English move-
ments, and become so many tails wagged by
English committees.
VVhen democratic movements in Ireland
recognise that they must be national--and if
it is a case of conflicting interests, more
national than democratic-tlie democratic
idea willfire the imagination of I reland, and
Ireland may lead the world in founding a
genuine democratic Republic.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee. .
The two parties who made such a desper-
ate fight for Irish nationality, in Falls and
Smitlifield VVards, at the recent Belfast
Municipal Elections, are hastening to give
proof of their nationality. The organ of the
United Irish League, which is printed in
Glasgow, in order to show its advocacy of the
Irish Industrial movement, has in its adver-
tisement columns a notice inviting tenders for
contracts to the British army ; and the Vz'mz’z'-
azlor, the organ of the Catholic Defence Asso-
ciation, rejoices exeeedingly over the appoint-
ment of one of its own party, Dr. O'Connell,
to be the first Catholic High-Sheriff (called
by some the assistant haiiginan) of the
County of the City of Belfast.
lVe can promise both parties, in spite of
their loyalty to faith and fatherland and
Edward the seventh, that at the next elections
they will be swept aside by Irish Nationalists,
who are not to be bribed with army contract
advertisements, or positions of “respect-
ability."
King Stork and King Log . .
It is not a cheerful task to wade through
the piles of English newspapers, but occasion-
ally gleams of unconscious humour light the
dark way, and, at the worst, one is usually
repaid by some notable discovery about Ire-
land. The last thing one expects from a
certain side of journalism is consistency’; but
it is rather staggering to find people who,
twelve months ago, hailed Mr. Bryce as the
right man to rule Ireland, because he knew
the country intimately, and had helped to
frame the Home Rule Bill‘, now proclaiming
that Mr. Birrell alone can read tlieriddle of
the sphinx, because he knows nothing about
Ireland, and can approach his task with an
open mind. IVe may dismiss English com-
ments as amusing, but the tone of that large
section of the Irish Press which is content to
live on scraps flung from its master’s table is
calculated to fill us with disgust. It has
heralded the appointment of the new Chief
Secretary by references to his book “ Obiter
Dicta"-literature of the type aptly described
as “Chatter about Harriet"-as if it werethe
outstanding work of the .CCI1lUrY.5‘"d Cmms
its columns daily with paragraphs clipped from
society’ journals detailing his favourite break- .
fast dish and his manner oflcnotting his neck-
tie, It aggcns its belief in his honesty and
good-will, while it is a matter of common
