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movement withput ,; being:, ,cUiven into it have already done much. Re's isting , the counsel ~f those who w0'll1d have turned it 'i rito , il' debating society, <41 their efforts, were directed towa:-- dsbuildlng- tip an ~~i- ' dent military " mov~!,llent, ~nd , it i s oO;ly that the work lS bearing fruit.
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They endorse wholeheartedly the
but am'mu'n iti6n will have to 'be used freely present policy of th~ ' Parli~entary Party
to train ,w ith, and we shauid makece~a:!n that supplies will . be alvia:ysforthCO~'i~g. '\Ve believe >that this could be ' done, by' ,'e s-' tablishing a cartridge factory, "!laid ' that the n~ssary capital 'fur ,.so doing would be aTailab'le by the corps everywh~re cooperating ' to' ra:se the necessary ' fn~ds. ' We hav~ been informed that for ,t he ma,D.u,:' " -facture of ' regtilatioil ~ammunition 011 a re-
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e~deavau,r as far as they can to prompte :the efficiency of the corps. They have ~,~ed ~egisters 0f the members, and are also keeping themselves ppsted in de'tails of eqU Ipment such as th,e ' n,u mber of rifles in the, d~trid and the names of those ~ who keep them, In a- few places, too, they ha~e .. gJu~c.:~ved _in getti~g the rifles into ~ifles -their::posse;;si6n for safe ,keeping, and the The Executive is n~w in a position to mun,e rative sca~~ ' the initial capit~l would pfl~s will h~ kept s;fe-:-for England. ,supply any number of rifles to affiliated not)Je very l,arge, but whe:ther ~his , is so Vol'll~teer ,Corps, and, ,there ' is no lox,ger or , not, s00!:lcr or later ~he __ Irish Voluna,n ~cuse for any ' member to .be unar!Il;ed. teers must see to it that the stu,ff is made Tl'aining ~ith the :tifie is the all-impor- iil Ireland. jantwot:k . :1iefGie ::the ';ID0'\~,, <".a:nd ~:it While the politicians are ,busy minding ,s h'o:tild , be ::Stalite<! wit hdul delar~ :: J~ ' will : , ' :th~ i)usiness ,pf :'every nation under the :tfke .;~ohilisto." n:ia:ke '~en ,really ' ;;seful '" . .. ,# VoluntaryU CoriseriptiOfZ " . '" . . -S;U,n Some'w.here tHe ' SUIlI never : se,t s', ri.fl'e shots",;>,b ecau,se '-even ,thetugh a " V01unand haTe discovered new countries to be teer may be quite a good ma-rksman after Eng'land has still hopes thst it may not a few shots with a rifle, i t takes a con- be necessa;ry to resort 11:0 compulsory ser- proud of and to Itelp and succour, our sider.a,ble time to give him that confidence v,i e.e; for compufsory service would not -be business is to look " aft~r Ireland and to in the weapon which is essential for effec- popular in England, The m~dest maf. see that Ireland's $Oldiers who fight for There is no time to be iost in fickers "there woul~ refuse 'even their pre- -E ngland wm 'be the "free gift of a free Though ,w e 'believed that the rifles, and now that they are sent help of cheering English victories if people. " available we may reasonalJly expect that there was a ,possibility that some day they presence of Mr. Asquith attne recruiting the difference' between the Irish Vol\.m- might have to 'fight: B'ut' the hope of stav. meeting in Dublin was an :affirmation of teers and the resoluting Volunteers will ' ing o ff compulsory service is ~uoye:l up the Act of Union rather than an e."'Cpresbe 5t,rongly a,c centuated during the next by expecta:tions from Ireland If one en. sion of the reality of Home Rule, we have f,e w weeks. thusiast'i c meeting could be got up at sufficient belief in him to see that his ~ whi<:h ,half a hundred yO'llng Irishmen wishe~ are carried out and that they will be • \:.1" free gift of :i free would offer themselves as a blood s.a cripee,ple. He did hot go to fice, the example might be followed elseAustralia, Canada, ~o uth Af.rica or Inwhere throughout Ireland, and leave" EngWith' a reasonable num ber of rifles; such dia, self-governing colonies, as he knew land saf~ at the looms making khaKi for as the num'ber now in the country, and the sta_tesmen there were able to look after the fools at the front. But however well plenty of pikes the arms' question is s olve(!, their ~-own business. He came to Ireland If the EngEsh soldiers find the bayonet machined the meetings were, ~d however beca1l,se he had given Ireland Home Rule. great the e,nJ!iusiasm and deep the confi· one-thousan<:lth par.t as ,e ffective as the ofand Ireland should, therefore, fight for dence in the speakers, the Irish VoIunficial despatches state the d ay of the bayoEngland I according to Mr Redmond, beteers ' stopped at home. To be su're they net is back with us again. A:ud if the cause Ireland h,ajl not got Home Rule and are a €lis grace ,and all the rest of it, but bayonet is <1)f any use, the pike i.s c~r won ' t get it unless she fights for England, they say, "W,e 'Won' t deny eight miI1~on tainly of much more u se in actual war. according to Mr. -O'Brie n. AnyhO\v, though EnglisIimen the chance of covering them· Any of our readers who have Italian J:ifies the politicians differ on a question of selves with 'glory." So the th in end Gf should have them tested immedi,ately, prefact 2.S ' to whether we have 0r have not the conscription wedge is to be i:n:tro<iuced ferably by an armoQ!rer or gu'nsmith, begome Rule, they agree on the question of immediately. It will be a harmleSs' form cause from recent happenings there seem:' policy. to be a sinister .desire on ,the part of some asking for ' certain particuLars as to the ~ of the gentlemen who were in- mel! in each household, and there is no If terested in these rifi,e s to l{eep compulsion to fiiI up and <return it. this form i s l aid down in Jreland it will ll'eland unarmed. F OF instance, an A' number of peop~e have written us letextensive order for th e ' ma nufacture of sc;ilcely be ret urned, for ev,e n the Unionters very indignanHy commenting on some. a ce rtain Ir ish ists show no particular inclination to fight pikes which was g iven to thing .an English paper, The 'Globe~ wrote for Mother England just now. firm w as r,efused at th e :,pst igation of <: erabout suppressing Natio!1 alist papers so as lain politici ans, although 'the fi~m .had at to he lp recru iting in Ir,e land. It is the fi rst, consented to m ake t he weapon s ' in any pi:opagati.on -of .opinion like that which quantity . the [-ea'v es the Englishman in war tim,e,S skull!:~~ . ing behind I rish and Scottish sold iers, and Already that census is b eing quietly pr,e- ,i f the op:nicn wet,e o:her .th an merelY typip ared i n Ir-e:.illld by a d ifferen, method, cal of Tory papers, and 'if we 'W anted to Some t ime in Ire land the sihl-ation will so t hat wh eth"r t he forms a r e re turned or keep Eng1 a~d O'ttt o f ft;rther 'trou ble, we b e dominat ed by the fa ct whether ther-e not may n ot matter so much. In many would suggest that the Gov,e rnment supDr is not a -.snff tcient ' supply of a mmu- cGlrps of the seceding Volunteers are' gentle- ' press The G lob-e :lnst ea,a o f .being as conu itio)'! available. At the m oment the Vol- men wh o t :lke a d eep inter,est in the move- t emptuons of it as' we ::"e.
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ntpost Soldiers' '~J I rtland. The pomp and p ageant ry that was a~ocia ted with the Volunteers all thr01,lgh the summe l: is gone, and the iVolunteers are, thankful. It is now time :flor real wO,r k,' and all the 'show and glitt.er t hat attracted the un'thinking has given :place to preparation for the real work befor e Itel and. It w:!s a fine thing t o be abl.e to march in parade , to be r eviewed by glib' tongue, t o 'be wonderful p rogress carry ,a wooden now that the
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