... Irish labor claims no more and no less
for Ireland than for the others."
After the republic, a workers' republic? After Sinn Fein, the Labor party?
Madame Markewicz is high in the councils of both Sinn Fein and Labor. One
day, lost in one of her trance-like meditations in which she states her
intuitions with absolute disregard of expediency, she said to me:
"Labor will swamp Sinn Fein."
[Footnote 1. Figures supplied by William O'Brien, secretary Irish Labor
party and Trade Union congress, 1919.]
[Footnote 2. Census of 1911.]
[Footnote 3. Figures supplied by Department of Agriculture of Ireland,
1919.]
[Footnote 4. Figures read by Thomas Lough, M.P., in House of Commons, May
14, 1918.]
[Footnote 5. "Reconquest of Ireland," By James Connolly. Maunsel and
Company. 1917. P. 328.]
IV
AE'S PEACEFUL REVOLUTION
"THE CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH"
It was very dark. I could not find the number. The flat-faced little row of
houses was set far back on the green. But at last I mounted some lofty
steps, and entered a brown linoleum-covered hallway. In the front parlor
sat the hostess. She was like some family portrait with her hair parted and
drawn over her ears, with her black taffeta gown surmounted by a
cameo-pinned lace collar. She poured tea. In a back parlor whose walls were
hung with unframed paintings, a big brown-bearded man was passing teacups
to women who were lounging in chairs and to men who stood black against the
red glow of the grate.
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