refuses to take his hat off in a British court, sat forward on his chair.
The rich young Protestant named Robert Barton regarded the crowd through
his shining eyeglasses. Keen, boyish Michael Collins, minister of finance,
fingered the paper he was going to read. The last two men had recently
escaped from prison and were wanted by the police--both, as they say in
Ireland, were "on the run."

"England kills Irish industry," said the succinct Arthur Griffith as he
rose from the right hand of DeValera to address the delegates. "Early in
the nineteenth century, England wanted a cheap meat supply center. She
therefore made it more profitable for the landowners in Ireland to grow
cattle instead of crops. Only a few herders are required in cattle care. So
literally millions of Irish, tillers of the soil and millers of grain, were
thrown out of employment, and from 1841 to 1911 the population fell from
8,000,000 to 4,400,000. Today, Ireland, capable of supporting 16,000,000,
cannot maintain 4,000,000."[2]

What is the Sinn Fein remedy for unemployment? Industry. Plans were then
under way for DeValera to make his escape to America to obtain American
capital to back Irish industry. But money was not to be his sole business.
He was to work for the recognition of Irish consuls and Irish mercantile
marine. And inside Ireland the movement to establish industry on a sound
basis was going on. Irish banks, Irish courts, Irish schools are to sustain
the movement. At present the English-controlled Irish banks handicap Irish
entrepreneurs by charging them one per cent more interest than English
banks charge English borrowers; therefore, a national bank is regarded as
an imperative need. Decisions of British judges in Irish courts may hamper
Irish industry; so in parts of the country perfectly legal courts of
arbitration manned by Irishmen have been established. School children under
the present system of education are trained neither to commerce nor to love