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What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell
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"Spinners and preparers, $7.50 a week.

"Weavers and winders, $7.50 a week.

"General laborers, $10.00 a week."

But, say the leaders, there will always be chance of disunion until the
political question is settled. Ulster labor decided to assist in that
settlement. So it killed Carsonism. And now it is trying to lay the
Carsonistic ghost.

This is the way labor killed Carsonism. I saw it done. I was in at the
death. There was a parliamentary seat vacant in East Antrim. Carson, whose
choice had hitherto been law, backed a Canadian named Major Moore. But
labor put up a sort of Bull Moose candidate named Hanna. The Carsonists
realized the issue. During the campaign they reiterated that Carsonism was
to live or die by that vote. The dodgers for Major Moore ran:

East Antrim Election
WHAT
The Enemies of Unionism
WANT
The Return of Hanna
WHY?
Because as _The Freeman's Journal_ of May 10,
1919, states:
"IF HANNA WINS, HIS VICTORY WILL
BE THE DEATH KNELL OF
CARSONISM."
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