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The separatists know that the Irish farmer, with his "stomach filled," well clad and comfortable, "tending fat cattle and himself quite fat," will send them to Chicago for the dollars, but he himself will not give a dime for "Home Rule." He may be a "sleek slave fed at the hand of the Conqueror," according to the rhetoric at Limerick Junction, but in himself he has settled down to be a hard-working, industrious citizen, not without enterprise, and with ample intelligence to make him bless the day that the "hand of the Conqueror" has advanced £105,000,000 of Imperial money to make a man of him and his fellows, and that he has been happy enough to be one of those who bought out his farm before the blast of the breath of the rag preferring politicians withered the too prosperous progress of the Unionist policy of Land Purchase.[1]
Danger: The "Irish Felon" and A General State Tax.
But the British people had better, before they hand over the executive and legislative power of Ireland to Separatism, take heed of other words of the Irish Felon. Lalor is the Bentham, the philosopher, that inspires the doctrines and economy of the new Separatism. His principles can be applied against the payment of the
- ↑ See also Mr. J. Redmond's speech at the National Convention at Buffalo, 27th September, 1910:—"Every student of history knows that if Ireland had been willing to kiss the rod, if Ireland in the past had been willing to merge her nationality in that of her Anglo-Saxon neighbour in all human probability the material condition of Ireland would have been far better than it has been for the past century. But the soul of this movement has been the spirit of nationality. Ireland would prefer rags and poverty rather than to surrender her national spirit."—Freeman, 12th October, 1910.
