IRELAND BORED BY CRISES

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1927, Page 7

IRELAND BORED BY CRISES

POLITICS USURP BUSINESS SETTLED RULE DESIRED MR. COSGRAVE’S CHANCES By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 13, 7.30 p.m. Dublin, Sept. 12. “Rainbow chasers and flappers, as the Irish describe vague idealists and young, unthinking voters, may be impressed by de Valera’s promise of a new heaven on earth and the ridiculous fable that British Imperialists are financially supporting Mr, Cosgrave,” says the Times’ Irish correspondent, “but the Labourites and the Redmondites have lost prestige through their support of de Valera. “Two minor parties hostile io the Government have been eliminated. De Valera’s casuistry over the bath has caused many defections and. he is denounced from many pulpits. If there is a 60 per cent, poll, Mr. Cosgrave is ensured of a substantial victory, but if, owing to the harvest, electorates are .-pathetic, and there is only a 50 per eent. poll, the Government majority may be narrow.

“It is hoped that the result will be decisive, because the Free State is tired of political crises and wants to settle down to business. Mr. Cosgrave desires a respite from high politics to enable him to tackle the urgent economical problems, notably the high taxation and the lack of capital organisation from which industry is suffering, resulting in much unemployment in Dublin, Cork and the other big towns with a high cost of living. Agriculture is also depressed, owing to the low prices and lack of organisation, giving Denmark and New Zealand the advantage in the British market..

“The old doctrine of hatred and distrust of England has lost its appeal, the majority realising the folly of quarrelling with Britain, with whom 84 per cent, of Irish trade is carried on.”