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Vol. 2. No. 20 SATURDAY, 8th MARCH, 1924. PRICE 2d.
CONT Under =the heading
Home News . 4 BRITISH “The British Forbids
- | WIRELESS the ‘Free State’ to
Economics ~ 8 CONTROL, Communicate with the
Foreign News : we 2 utside World,’ an
Editorial we we 4 Italian paper Publishes
/ the following interpretation of
Proclamations 5 ‘Treaty The lines of communica-
Special Articles ve 5&7 tion between Ireland and the outside
The Page of the Bards... 6 world are controlled by the British
Sinn Fein Clubs § Government. ‘The ‘ Treaty of London ’
: forbids the ‘ Free State’ to construct,
Advertisements we se 3) 4p 78 even with British permission, wireless
It has now become al-
most a useless task to
approach the
papers of the week with
“anything like a light heart—they are so
filled with evil effects of a ‘ Treaty’
surrendered the honour of the
country. The list of murders, of attacks,
of robberies by members of the Pro-Treaty
forces and ex-members of that same body,
the evidences of graft in Government
the British firms
THE
OUTLOOK.
which
circles, the scandals,
penetrating into the economic life of Ire
land, the unrelieved and unnoticed dis-
tress and suffering on all sides, the un-
speakable vulgarity of the debates and
addresses of the Pio-Treaty Party, and the
legislation which is gradually usurping
all local government, all democratic ex-
pression, and even the money of the
people te give power and gre:
and more case and luxury and extravag
ance te the small ruling ascendancy class
none of these things can in any way
lighten the terrible burden of the past
years. ‘The only good they ‘hold is that
the people of Ireland, through them, are
gradually realising what the
and the men who enforce it, mee
to Freland, and that the only hope lies in
the Republican cause.
* *
er-salaries.
in of il
Indeed the only cure
for Ireland's
Bae TIONS. afflictions is to get rid
of all Pro-Treaty mem-
bers, and put Repub
many
tiean members in their places. Thc
eleotors have now a chance to do
bhis.. Every time they add another
Republican member to the list of 44
who are dedicated to the cause of Irish
freedom, they help to destroy the forces
uphap-
which are now working for the
piness and degradation of the nation, and
instead they build on permanent founda-
tions liberty, unity and national well-
heing. Vote for the Republican
candidates !
* *
The official date
LOCAL
jounced for the
GOVERNMENT general election of
ELECTIONS. Borough cour ncil
ounty: yu
W.D. Councils, Town Canty ions rs, and.
R.D. Councils has been set for July 15th,
1924. It is absolutelv essential that every
Republican name shall be on the register,
and all Republicans should at once make
sure that their names appear on the
“ Long Lists.” se
sames do not apnear should register their
elaims immedi: he last day for the
vegistration of ims in Dublin is March
kth, and other dates have been fixed
for other parts of the country. Now is
ensure that no Republican
vote shail be lost in the local government
elections.
Photo by"
“ You who vote for Sinn Fein candidates
for the legitimacy of the Republic, for trelana »asainst England, fe
Vand
slavery for right and justice against fore
EAMONN DE VALERA, 1921.
[Sean Hurley, Dublin
will cast your votes for nothing less than
against
wrong, here and everywhere.”
LORD we take this oppor-
tunity of correcting,
MAYOR for ihe legal advise
DE COURCY. to the Limerick Cor.
poration,
and ungrammatical use
He says thai yor De Cor
is null and void, 1
to accept office in the
members of the Counci
going a term of in
urey's
onment,’ ”
and "’ should oby iously have been ‘ “be
cause,” and we humbly apologise for the
legal adviser, At the same time th
tion cannot be declared null and v
those srounds, because the imprisonment
of the Lord Mayor,
tried, months aft
is illegal under the laws of the very party
who hold him. The only remedy—and,
perhaps, the Li k Corporation will
see it thenselve: for two members to
serve a similar term of imprisonment for
their country’s honour, and take the
necessary acceptance of oflice of the Lord
Mayor behind the barbed wire.
* * *
Vhat haprened to ‘J.
vroé-obair J.) during lunch hour?
AZ HA CROS- What strange spe came
boitre over him between the time
when he left the ‘* Free
State Parliament ” in white heat because
his mysterious motion about broadcasting
publicity had been thwarted by the
“ Sreaker, and sniffed at by his ‘“* Ex-
ecutive,” and the time when he returned
with a written paper and read in a docile
hardly discernible voice an apology ‘or
his motion, for his words, for his anger,
and indeed, for his very being alive at all?
If. only the formula of the so effective
meral drug could be made public, or the
‘ Executive ’? could publish the name of
the inventor, and tell us how ach Js
ficial Free State Silen ”
we might at vast understand how it is that
at Leinster [louse no one with the excep-
tion of two or thre at most, dares even
‘peep ”” to th “Ek xecutive,”” lest
stiff do: >
* * *
he ge
GOVERNMENT The Press _ ane
nounces th
CONTROL almost certain that
OF FOOD. some sort of Gov-
ernment ri
of food prices will soon take
already one paper is publishing
scheme tried in Australia—a case which
i rallel to Sreland,
labour in or out o
power thas a ruling
crore
hand—of Gov-
control of food. Will there
g left to the people when the
aty finishes its legislation?
Will thes leave ‘any sphere of life intact
from their dictatorship? AWhat will un-
doubtedly happen in the reaty con-
trol of food, if one judges ‘Trem the pratt
and usurpation which has characterised
their laws so far—will be that the farmers,
at present pressed almost to the breaking
point with the enormous rates and the un-
relieved agricultural distress—will be
pinched more, the middlemen. will be
abolished altogether, and the benefit will
‘0. to the coffers cf Merrion Street. A
pleasant prospect !
stations having sufficient power to trans-
mit news to France. The ‘ Free State’
is only allowed to organise a ,ravincial
system of wireless communication with
the interior of Ireland and to receive
news from foreign parts transmitted by
the T.S.F.” >
* * *
abe Irish papers report
when a member of
British
IRISH a
PATENTS. the
patents in the mae Free State,
told that legislation was pending
present time. } n said the same
thing—promising a bill after Christmas.
But the whole story was not told in the
irish Press. Mr. Sidney Webb,
British Parliament, really did say
British law of patents at it h
Ireland. He added also that ihe legal
position is not perfectly clear!’
* * *
GERMAN Appearing out of
GOODS question in the British
* House of Commons is
AS IRISH. the fact that German
s brought into the
vital s there. “Such
foreign goods and blanketting of Irish
trade. should be “ferretted out, and would
have been long ago, if the ruling party
had cared tuppence whether
ged or not.
spee lating in
factures were encour
all—the eaceful ©
tishers, the contracts plac ed i
this speculating with foreign cheap wares
this lack of protection—if they had the
wisdom and the I—stop it at once, by
returning to their Republican allegiance.
* * *
“THE GAEL ”’ The Editor of The
CHARGES US G#¢l—the
Irelander ’’
WITH
FALSEHOOD.
in particular cases been instructed to play
the ‘ role of G. men. Our authority is
unimpeachable, © Editor will cease
dreaming, and look about hint, he will
find undeniable proofs in various parts of
the country. The recapture of Gaffney is,
we believe, a very good case in point.
* 8 #
We have watched the
ANOTHER | pickerines of the various
SCANDAL. commercial concerns of
the film world in the
Press—their indignations and their refu-
tations, while the powers that be are
silent, determined not to let the treth leak
out about this sec
about the wir reless..
reason or other they have this time against
them an organ of the Pro Treaty Press,
which has beeun to attack them with a
persistence that we wonder
may hone, that my truth ii
be broucht to lieht, as it il be i in the
case of the broadcasting.
