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IRE SELF-RAISING FLOUR

Rises Above all Others,

The West AUSTRALIAN

RECORD

PERTH, SATURDAY, JULY. 12,

1913

With the Irish Party The Redmonds and John Dillon (By Ada Holman, in the Sydney "Freeman.")

(Concluded.) Probably the most picturesque personality of the Irish group is Joe Devlin, with whom likewise many Australians are happily acquainted. Those who have not heard "Joe" on the platform or in a social capacity are indeed to be pitied, but those who have heard Goulburn's Bishop Gallagher can claim some knowledge of his inimitable voice and methods, allowing-what shall I say?-for some thirty years' discrepancy. What a man to sway a crowd is Devlin? What

veloped, it was time they looked out another man for Belfast. An almost unanimous 'So say we all' sent chills down my spine, and I couldn't get up quick enough to explain that my, words had been entirely misunderstood. I nearly lost the election over

that," added

Mr. Devlin, with Lis best twinkle, "so now don't try to pervert me again, just as I'm living

the

writer heard only William O'Brien, as effective and brilliant as when we heard hint in Australia. He has aged a little, but "the ancient spirit is not dead"-far from it. In a house in Kilkenny hangs on one side of the library fireplace a portrait of John Redmond ; on the other that of Tim Healy. The wife has hung up the leader's (her leader), and her husband his rival's. When political discussion runs a little high in that household, one or both of the portraits is apt to disappear tempor-

to make the total this year the highest yet reached. The Unionist campaign in England, as !napped out, is more thorough and extended than any yet attempted, and it will be necessary for the Irish Party to incur a very heavy expenditure to meet it. That the Irish people will do their duty by the Party there can be no doubt, In the letter enclosing his subscription to the Fund, the Bishop of K Male sums up the situation

weighty and eloquent words. His Lordship says "We are now near the final and grandest goal of all-Self-Government; but we have not yet touched it; and the nearer we approach it the more violent and unscrupulous our enemies, or some of them, become. It, therefore, behoves our people to rally just now closer than ever around the historic little Party, that has led them successfully to so many victories, and see that they have at their command all the men and money needed to win for Ireland the last and crowning victory of a native Parin

the thing down." To which the only fitting reply was that a man who could represent Belfast, was, like Voltaire's I labbakuk, "capable de tout." Of a very different mould is T. P. O'Connor. There is no suggestion of the martyr or of the devotee about this old campaigner. His aspect declares him just the shrewd, skilful, daring strategist he is-a man of utility, a man for a tight place, a man who can say or write just what is liament." santed, in the neatest possible way. 11r. O'Connor is one of the ',Provisional Government" Difficulties group's notabilities who has not visited AusA correspondent of the "Irish tralia, and to be reminded of this News," the only Nationalist daily pamakes him very sad-on our account. per in Ulster, in a very interesting "I have been listened to in all the article, points out some of the difficapitals of the globe, I think, except culties which would confront Lord the Australian," he remarks whimsicLondonderry and his friends if they ally. ",t does seem a pity you set up a Provisional Government in haven't heard Me over there. I can't "Ulster." Ile says :tear to think there is a place I "Let us assume for a moment haven't in oien in." that the 'Bill of the Better GovernAmongst the yo t: n eer men 11r. ment of Ireland' has become the law Ilazelton taus a leading place. All of the land, and that the threatened Australia knows how he can speak. 'Provisional Government' has been ''Front grave to gay, front lively to proclaimed by Lord Londonderry and severe," searching denunciation and his Council of Five. happy similes and witty allusions all T. P. O'CONNOR, 11.1'. .10SEPII DEVLIN. 11.P. "Let us further assume that, overin a breath, as it were and, best of all, a white passion for Ireland's au- :oily. "Never mind." says the son of awed by the Provisional Army, the a man for transforming the truculent tonomy, for Ireland's freedom, for the house; "on the day the Home forces of the Crown have retired to to sticking doves! That an Irish Na- Irelands dignity, for Ireland unfet- Rule Bill is carried Iii going to Nationalist strongholds, such as Dertionalist should represent Belfast is tered anti unbound taking her due have them both set in one frame." ry, Aughrint, and the Boyne and West commentary enough. Probably half dace anion.; the nations. And they will doubtless go very well Belfast, and that Belfast Lough is his voters are "agin" his politics, held for King George by a Revenue One would like to write of all the t. igettier. but they are never allowed to tind earnest, genial, and brainy hand, but ('utter. that out. When Joe's delicious bro"What then ? low is the ordinary enzerel`leer gue and ingratiating smile and honeybusiness of the great industrial cote Echoes from Erin ed phrases get going in combination, immunity of Belfast to he carried on ? it is not the slightest use for a hearIn this connection it is well to re"Toleration" in Belfast er to call himself an opponent. What member that Belfast is living this From '' Trath About CastleJoe says, his hearers believe-they week OR what it earned last week, d.awson," we take the following simply have to and so rich is the "It is well that the British public and that any sustained disorganisabrogue and so far-reaching the smile, should know what followed. This riot tion of business would transform cerand so lasting the honey flavour, at Castledawson e as made the pre- tain Captains of Industry into 'hat they all keep effect until the text for a general raid on Roman "Weary Willies," and a lucrative e7iction is over, and Joe safely deCatholics or Nationalists in the en- bill business would be lost to the posited within that circle of which he bani-s whole e, -en in these prospereineering works at lielfast, in which is such a prized possession. But there Unionists are an o,.erwhelining ma- ous times many of the rank and file was one occasion!- '11r. Devlin lives to go thirsty several days in ;:ority. More than three thousand have to tell stories against himself, and each wee& for want of the necessary driven workmen were out of their emon that sante burning question which ployment. Many were set upon by 2d." was touched on a moment ago he has "Suppose, for instance, that Capmobs, pelted with stones and rivets, something to say. It was at a time Disor beaten and kicked almost to tain Craig's establishment at when woman suffrage really seemed d'ath. One man was five months in tillery Street wished to sLip, say, to he on the verge of realisation. hoseital with fracture of the groin 100,000 gallons, "Craigavon Three Members everywhere were wobblinc, Crowns" to Unionist headquarters in and with blood -spitting front interand throughout English constituennal contusions another had his skull London, or to the "trade" generally: cies candidates were busy explaining fractured, another his jaw broken, how would it bilk King George's how thoroughly they were in accord 'nd so on. The mobs when they at- Tax Collector with women's aims, "but the time would the 'Ulster' banks "I Ice, tacked a man, commonly asked hint not being yet ripe," etc. Mr. Devlin to prove his loyalty by cursing the maintain communication with their was making a speech in his constitubranches outside the Belfast Pale Pope. This is religious toleration as ency after an extended absence, and and how would the Provisional Govit is practised in Belfast. .vas, like the rest, infected with the Finally, the riot at Castledawson ernment maintain communications by 11.1'. WILL1A 11 O'BRIEN, revailine germ. (He has, one sadly and the riots at Belfast, led to pro- rail and sea between their subjects fears, no very sound views on feminin general and the rest of the world? 'There is Alderman secutions. For the Castledawson afism ; hut no matter, we must dis- space forbids. "Suppose an unfortunate subject of fair, which of was a casual outbreak semble.) "My speech was going beau- Boyle from Ilancheeter, a steady and the 'Provisional Government' desired men were half an hour, over twenty tifully," nerrates Mr. Devlin, " and stalwart tower of strength there is imprison- to complete the purchase of his holdthen I thought it time to get on to Matt Keating, brother to Joseph sentenced to three months' deliber- ing under the Land Purchase Act, to ment. For the Belfast riots, the ticklish subject. T told them as Keating, the novelist, one of the Kilover execute a mortgage, or to transact ately organised and extending henchk envy members, and a valued adroitly as I could why I was not was pun- any other business which, to have weeks, not person a single exactly an advocate for the woman's man there is the Whip, who, judglegal effect, would have to he done the Belfast juries obstinately ished vote but later on, everything being ing from stories told of hint-to his through an administrative office in refused case." to convict in every cleared up and all going well, there face-would have Heide an exc.411e--+ Dublin, as at present, what then? The Flume Rule Fund was no reason why T shouldn't take slave-driver in Uncle Tom's dela "In short, suppose that the peoThere are helf-a-dozen other men in The Home rule Fund for 1913 has ple ed. Belfast and the surroundine. it ne-in fact, it was just as likely ow reached the total (May 31e, of districts are a set of blithering idas not I'd he heading the Woman's the front ran''-, both s-ea'eers and oeeanisers, rank and file, one and all, 4,8,725, and font Gee resorts pub- iots-and then you may suppose that Freedom League processions, or treakine a window in Bond -street, sitting tight, subdeine individual lished in the Irish newspapers it ap- 'Ulster will fight!' The Ahercorn ominous silence! I sat down. Then idiosyncrasies. foregoing personal ad- pears that all over. the country meet- parrot tales too much !" ne of my most prominent sunporters vertisement, stolidly awaiting the ings are being held and collections "The Orange threats about Home rot ' and said that if thee* were hour of victory. organised, and that there is a deter- Rule," says 11r. Redmond. "are of Of the Indeeendent Irish members, mination on the part of the people the same kidney as the threats of the hind of views Mr. Devlin had de;

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