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Show ERIN QUITS WORK' TO CHOSE GIF I Irish Consider It Is Their Chief Duty Now to Roil England By f C. I YON . B. A. si. ut' Oorreepomlent, DUBLIN". Ireland, Nov. 1. ' Repub-' llcan " Ireland has practically quit I work penillns the winning of si para-i tlon from the British empire It will attend to no businc;. however vital, I except the business of making trouble trou-ble for John Bull. "English rule is such an intolerable intol-erable abomination that no other suliject can rca.-h th" pi nple said one brilliant Irishman. "Ve must outwit, outstay her; wo must embarrass, bully, even conspire ami assassinate when nothing else will move her." In all my rambling! through Ireland i I've never heard any subject except Irlah politics discussed Not a word abotit horse-racing, cricket, football, or the I'nlled tSates presidential campaign: cam-paign: nothing except Irish politics, politics. mis i m i r ra i n r. The averagfi Irishman Is born a politician pol-itician and hi-. hli l r. In-: in life Just now. seems to lie talking about tho I injustice and wrongs England lias in-i in-i flictcd on his unhappy country. And I in detailing these wrongs he generally general-ly .s'.arts with the year 1171 when Kim; I Hotur) II of England Invaded In-land Slaughtered many of the populace and , distributed Ireland's fertile lands H among his English followers. j Everywhere in Ireland today one J BBBH finds vast numbers of young men 1 'H Hog Ma th sir. 1 corners, appal-- HI ently with nothing to do. i'l Th( ri publican government has ll forbidden them to leave the coun- DbbbH try during the present troubles. JJBBBI If it comes to open warfare wltV H Britain they'll be nee-" -J. hom. In an authorized Im-.-new given SBBIH the Paris Journal some tune ago, Ixrd fij I'rench then lord In-utentint of Ire- fcftjijl land, said. ""The principal cause of KfjH the trouble In Ireland is that for five JBH years emigration has praetlcully ceased jjbbI There are 100,000 200,000 young lH men here of from IS to 25 years of iH age, who normally would have left lH the IH HAT DID WE TELL YOl ?" "See wliat did we tell you?" ex- IBBH 1 lafms the irishman, pointing to this H statement by i'rench. "England ad- mils she wants to keep Ireland so BiBH much under her heel, economically and 1 politically, that there will be no op- portunltles here for our young men BBBH and they must go to other countries to 1 llvi their Uvea" Prom reading accounts day by day Americans are apt to get the Idea Irish pH streets are tlowing with blood. pBBpi F..r from it. During the day- time there are few outward evi-, pH dences thai in land is under com- SBH plete military domination. The BBH crowds : peopli that fill the ifH si reels in every tity and town are H noi sullen ami downcast, but, on 1 the contrary, good-natured, ex- tromely polite and sociable to PBH -un n. however, tell me bust- BBBH nejss Is poor. The country is practt- fH colly fn- of tourists. PH The movie theatres, everywhere are crowded oi evenings and to hear the 1 roars of laughter and applause that great th" nnta of Charlie Ohaplln 01 Doug Fairbanks on the screen, onu could easll couclude the Irish people 1 hadn't a care in the world. Hut driving the British "oppres- eor" from the country is quite an- PH other thing. A young Irishman, who has taken BBBfl his best girl to the inovle, may not 1 tarry a moment at the front door when 1 he reaches her home, but rushes awaj 1 with tills explanation: 'You'll lO excuis me tonight. BH darlin' but thore's a blackguard of a v wajf !hat we must fH Give him a wallop for me, Denny," BBBJ she may call after him as he leaves lH |