POLITICAL PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 67, 16 September 1927, Page 7

POLITICAL PEACE

COSGRAVE'S TEN POINTS

(United Press Association.—Copyright,) LONDON, 15th September. To-day the citizens of, the Free State will choose 149 members of the Bail from 257 candidates. The result, owing to the proportional representation system, will not be known for several days. Mr. Cosgrave asks for a clear decision and a bigger polL There are no signs of a bigger poll; however, unless the seeming indifference covers a grim determination to vote. .'■

Mr. Cosgrave has issued ten points on which he ia prepared to meet his opponents with peace and reconciliation, as follow:—

Voluntary submission to the will of the people. Balancing of tho national Budget. A single disciplined army,. subject' to the control of Parliament.

An efficient police force. The collection of all arms from persons unauthorised to possess them. An independent judiciary. Entrance to the Civil Service by merit only. • ■ No truce with crime of any description. '.■.'• . Peace at home and abroad. The fulfilment of all pledges, national and international.

*i I' lt P y mto Mr- de Valera, who argued that the Treaty was accepted, on the assumption that it was merely a step-ping-stone to greater freedom, Mr. E Blythe (Minister of Finance) said- "If I could turn the Free State into a republic to-morrow I would not lift a finger to do it., We have all the powers and liberties required for the people of this country."