FROM BAD TO WORSE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1932, Page 13

FROM BAD TO WORSE

COUNTRY, FACING RUIN

A DISMAL PICTURE

LOSTDON, 26th August.

Conditions in the Irish Tree Stat* to-day are described by a. special correspondent of the "Morning Post,'? himself an Irishman, who says that ISfature has given a bountiful 'harvest, but at the roots there is canker and creeping economic paralysis.

"There is no demand for the abuu-> aaut hay and pasture, while horses; cattle, sheep, pigs, butter, and eggs are unsaleable owing mainly to the British, tariff, which falls entirely on. the producer," he says. "Land has depredated in value, farms are practically' unsaleable, and a large proportion, ot farmers are faced "with, 'bankruptcy. Shopkeepers are refusing further credit.

"The country is faced -with mm unless 'the tariff war is ended. A settle* nient is demanded by all sections witK the interests of the country at heart, but many think that Mr. de Valera does no -want peace but desires to continue the struggle as part of his avowed campaign for a republic. "Farmers who believed that he intended to abolish the land annuities now find themselves compelled to pay; him instead of the British Government. Moreover, he has failed to find any; alternative to the British, market, -which his policy is closing.

"Civil Servants' and teachers' salaries are endangered,. while banking and business classes dependent on the farmers are paralysed by their distress. "Many people sum up the situation in this way: Money is rapidly leaving the country and arms arre> rapidly, coming in."

The correspondent expresses the opinion, howover, that any attempt to overthrow the Constitution would be. fore* doomed to failure.