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SATURDAY, 28rd FEBRUARY, 1924.
“PRICE 24.
Hame News . wet
Economics . wee 2
Foreign News we v2
Editorial
Prociamations
Special Articles
The Page of the Bards
Sinn Fein Clubs
Advertisements
WIRELESS The revelations in wire-
GRA
less graft come at a
FT. © oddly arranged in
world by a trick of
he
fate to be perh naps, the worst moment that
they could pave appeared. France, and
especially A ica, have made just such
discoveries ar graft in their own
le
ruling
ranks, and have disclosed them with utter,
almost absurd, publicity. The Pro-Treaty
arty, on the other hand, contrary to the
redeeming way of facing such
velations, has hushed it up, and hushed
it up until it is the whisper on everyone's
lips, and the scandal for which aews re-
porters far and wide, clamour. If the
guilty ones feared to risk their reputations
an publicity, and hoped by virtue of safety
in numbers to squirm out quietly under
each other’s coat-tails, their disappcint-
ment must be acute
* * *
First and foremost it is now clear that
they have overstepped their
which in
vy" (and, as one journal
» Who can say ‘ must” to. the
2) be present at Commnrittee meet-
econd it has become apparent that
n Pro-Treaty official had ‘ formed
t model (of the British Broadcasting
Constitution,
Press ‘
it
Co.). 2 composite company to take cver
the work of broadeas' sting in and
because, in his opinion, it was the onl
means of setting up a broadcasting sta-
ti It may not appear
honest to ‘invite others to
into a broa
that course because there was no alter-
native. He knew the Treasury mind well
enough to know that if he asked for tens
of thousands he would not get the money
Moreover, the * proposals that
holders should deposit a sum of
Savings Certificates? was inserted” Sith
good justification Re
jTejects other t
sha ‘
7
not to sive
committee decide
sion to the ec company. These * revels
tions ’? were ejects of an indust
und financial kind
of public loans.
regarding the flotation
the building of a casino
to replace those so Popular on the con-
tinent, with ‘‘ the a of one kind
nother of the Government.’ All this
far outside. the realm of wireless
_ if possible, it i ape the dan-
t which ion lets
xe ons
into the proceedings of the Commit e
* * *
What all references mean i
re than to fathom at
stage of the nee of spies
the lobby ‘cneaged by one me mber: to
the admission that ‘ at
were d
the other
one dares
in-
compani
much
Th
volved in the electrical busin
wer
tha :
“ the
couritries
fact. that
agents of foreign
all they were;’’ the
Marconi Co. was not out o!
M. bet scheme,’’ and
eemed to concern
puty but the whole Da Ve
affair is one of those evil festers yatural
y governnient founded 0 on dsonesty
and Built on lies, that show g rd
urther one them,
interesting point is: what will the
realy authority do about. it, and what
those countries whose leaders have
words
ne only a
Ry
The
y worst kind of Govern
think the‘ Free
ers if they do not do something, and
do it quickly?
conquerati. The sp irit of
destruction of the last of our people.’’
Pro”
* With the will to pa all things rather than abandon their feat. {he Irish people are un-
e who march to the scaffold wi
ir the highest huma in ideals, with
and for the country on their lips, is the spirit of ail Irel
PRESIDENT “EAMONN DE VALERA.
ith the
en only with
FALSE Even if the Press
NEWSPAPER ene eae
REPORT. a matter of
speculation how much
have told of truth with the
ave. This week a particu-
larly vicious report has occurred in. the
which
they could
habits t
hal
very journal shric
publicity for the wireless s
Sean OCeallaigh, T.D., is reported
us having said in the Cerporation mect-
ing that he ““ would do double the amount
of damage again.” What he really said
was that “he would ao double that amount
of damage again to kecp Ireland cut
the British Empire.” It is another
to admit to a circulation as
that Treland
is a part of the
righ, T-D., and the Trish Re-
publican Army have been fighting for is
to prevent the Empire connection. ‘The
base treachery of such newspap
makes the Pro-Treaty
our most formidable ‘opponents
Another
flagrant
BRITISH- example of with
IRISH holding the truth
IMMIGRANTS, from the — Irish
people: is in this
week's papers.
that a certain steamship company has
agreed ta, pay of the
of immigrants to
Britain and Ire
say that “‘ the
pay 20 per cent.
20 per cent,
Canada
and. »The
British
of the fares,
c
from Great
London papers
Government will
ete., ete.
A plot with Mr. Cosgrave to help him get
those famous postal orders by cmptying
Ireland !
The Irish papers report.
HARD TO 1
CONVINCE ?*
Dr. White, to con
bre Ng bs oath to the Republic,
his hea’ to try ‘to get people
those who differed from them—to realise
that w ree, As if they would not
Wwe
know it without effort if the
Is this not another typical example of the
‘al dishonesty t has come on the
* Free Perhaps the
Father thinks ‘the shouts loud
that we a free he may
into believing it. Per-
Rev.
cnough :
mesmerise us
haps
* x *
Dr. White was alluded to as
“ THE the Gem the Waterford people
GEM.” mud, not appre-
Gating privilege vof “sup-
porting him, , which was. theirs
same gentleman said that ** Waterford
had a filthy record,’’ havin also
neglected Thomas Francis Meagher. But
he conveniently forgot that Waterford
was converted to the tre i ions al th
in 1918, and will not r bec
Dr. White has broken faith. we pre fer
an honest convert any day to a renegade
and apostate.
* *
The election campaign
the © Pro-Treaty
party in this election
MUD.
SLINGING. fin every other, con
sists wholly and solely
in refuting charges ainst its actions,
and personal remarks about the oppo-
nents of its candidates. In more than
the attacks have been of suc! h
a character that libel is a wor
removed front the
might be mace.
s like Senator O’Farrel
ELECTION
icEntee’s excellent points about the coal
resources of this country—a) attacks which
it lous.
'y made public place the
collieries y at so high a
refutation figure, in the case of the known
exposed coalfields alone, as at
Republican meeting, the trickery and lies
and deception of the Pro-Treaty position,
the continual Pro-Treaty tendency away
from the rights of democratic govern-
ment by the people and for the people,
and towards the imperial bureaucracy
which the ‘‘ Free State”? is ferced to
maintai every occasion these
‘es are met by personal slander and
cks which have nothing to do with
nd serve enly to condemn the
party ‘whic h uses them on an electi
platiorm. An expert authority on elec
i once niade a careful study of
ss and loss of parties .ia the
long run of sovernments, and discovered
that case whe or ted
impe Nona
sm of the methods and lati orm of
its opponents, it failed ultimately
failed miserably. So will ‘the fey
State
” Party fail.
* *
THE The Independent is
very much worried
EX-SOLDIER about the non-at-
GRANT. ten lack
of of the
on Dublin Cor-
supporters
nm. It is owing to their absence,
rged, that the Corporation had
a majority against using the relief of
unemployment. grant in dole-wages of
week for ex-Frec S$ soldiers.
basic argument which would have
influenced any reasoning” and far-seeing
member of the Corporation is ignored—
that this dole would und-reut and place
in an unfair position the ordinary wage
arner. The Dublin Corporation was
right. There is no doubt of it.
can only be thankful that the Pro-1 Treaty
members, whose habit has become one of
seeing no further than their party noses,
were not present, for wherever they or
others like them appear, in Dublin or
Donegal, the city and the county and the
country’s interests ‘ go by ard.”
Let the Dublin Corpo ation in
demanding a fair re and that the un-
employment relief grant shall not be used
ve it. ven
> State’? soldier must be taught
pride and refuse to become a tool to break
down the economic wage for which Irish
labour has so long hop Vhy not
their own exesoldiens?
* *
But
poration is not
alon hi
CONDITIONAL Dublin Cor-
GRANTS AND
one in this
BRITISH business of con-
PREROGATIVE, ditional
for the
good. The British policy, begun years
ago, in withholding local grants and pre
ver al
and for the same
Wexford Coun
cut its roadworke: per
and will probably. ‘be “denied the g :
Ac large sum of money lies idle i
Tirconaill because the County C
cannot obey the conditions imposed upon
its d ptance of the y
easy way of avoiding exper nditure, but the
people of Ireland will not always allow
themselves to be so soc! ked | and starv
anti-n
has
week,
nd
Meanwhile the‘ Irish
“FIDO.” Labour Party " is ‘assum-
ing the role of ‘Watch
the Empiri proposal
meeting without opposition.
born creature is to be. called
“* Tido,’? and we have been told t
is that of a soft, pampe:
fed by hand, whose
is only made known by his ys appi
he is ‘stepped on,
