Show l SUNDAY MORNING API PROHIBITION ISSUE r I IN COMING IRISH i 4 ELECTIONS May F Force Sinn Fein and V Nationalists to Cooperate in Ulster nr ns nIT s McCANN United ti-d ti Staff DUBLIN April 23 Prohibition Prohibition is the issue which is forcing Sinn and nd Irish nationalists of ot the north of Ireland Ireland to get together on common ground round and probably ultimately will RIL RIC II 24 24 1921 f. f cause them to sit in the Ulster par par- While the south of ot Ireland so idly Sinn Fein has repeatedly rejected Lloyd Georges George's dual parliament scheme the Irish nationalists and Sinn Inn Fein Foin- ers In the six counties have been unable unable un un- un- un able to decide upon a policy Within the past few days dars however the leaders of these two wings of ot the Irish Catholics In Ulster have gotten together and decided to participate in the elections to be held in May Both Doth factions have agreed to advance an equal number of candidates who are to have mutual support The Sinn Fein Fetn candidate in the Sinn Fein district is to get the combined vote of the Nationalist while the Nationalist Nationalist Nationalist Na Na- candidate in another district is to get the vote of both the Nationalists Nationalists Na Na- Nationalists and Sinn Fein ix li II W. W In this way the Catholics hope to tomake tomake tomake make a sufficient manifestation of their strength in as Ulster is dubbed b by the rest of Ireland to impress the Orangemen as well as the government in London Up until the present however both Nationalists and Sinn if elected have pledged themselves not to take their scats seats According to advance predictions oJ the Catholic minority in north Ireland cannot hope for a representation that I will In any way be formidable against the combined forces of ot the Orange Orange- men On the other hand on questions orange orange-I where there is a a. divided Orange following fol fol- lowing ol t they would be able to hold the balance of FY p power I Prohibition is the one question that will drive the Irish Catholics and Irish 1 Protestants In Ulster to combine If It the Sinn J Fein eln and Nationalist rationalist members elected do not take their seats in the Belfast parliament it is conceded that the drys who have ha made great headway headway headway head head- way In the north of Ireland will have havea a clear majority The pussyfooters r have already announced d that a they will Immediately P precipitate I th the prohibition r Issue RUIN U. U According to statistics more than 90 per cent of the license holders in Ulster are Catholics and either Nationalists NaO Na Na- O or Sinn 1 Passage of ofa ofa a prohibition law wI would Ii ruin their e I business On the other hand the percentage percentage percentage per per- of Catholic and Protestant brewers and distillers is about even In numbers however they are far less than those engaged in the re retail re- re tail trade Their representation in the Belfast parliament would be negligible If the appointed da day arrives and elections are carried out and the setting setting set set- ting up of the Carson parliament follows fol fol- lows the Sinn Nationalist minority minority mi ml- will be faced with two things Either thc they will have to participate thereby helping make the dual parlia parlia- parliament parliament ment system a success or they will abstain jeopardizing abstain jeopardizing the chances of the scheme and at the same time makIng making making mak mak- I ing the Introduction of prohibition Inthe in inthe inthe the six counties virtually a certainty |