Galway In Days Gone By

1921

Appeal to both sides

In an address to the electors of the six North-East counties the nationalist candidates say while it is their issued determination not to enter the North-East Ulster Parliament, they will labour outside with all their might to secure the unity of Ireland.

They point out the dangerous finance of the Partition Act and make an earnest appeal for elected representatives, North and South, to come together in a genuine constituent assembly and by mutual concession, fashion out a scheme to solve the Irish problem.

There is, they say, no thoughtful man – Nationalist or Sinn Féiner, Southern Unionist or Ulster Covenanter – who does not realise that the setting up of a legislative divorce between the six counties and the twenty-six is fraught with evil alike to the North-East corner and the rest of the country.

Ireland is a small country whose vital needs are largely identical, are closely co-related. No one knows better than the Unionist merchant of Belfast how intimately allied are the interests of the northern trader and his customers outside the six-county area.

The banking institutions of Belfast are vividly cognisant of the value of maintaining friendly relations between the agricultural and industrial portions of Ireland.

The country’s social and economic problems may differ in detail, but it is manifest they can only be properly dealt with by a Parliament representative of all the interests that are concerned.

The whole Partition Act is in its essence a fraud upon Ireland. Even before the “appointed day” its finance had already gone smash. Government propagandists had held out the glittering prospect of a surplus of over £7,000,000 to be divided between the North and South Parliaments after the appalling burden of an annual tribute of £18,000,000 and the cost of the reserved services as well as the cost of the new Parliaments’ own services had been deducted.

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