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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2158, 26 May 1914, Page 6

HOME RULE FINANCE.

Sfry-*-The< ''Pister Soot" svlio signs si ■totter in tliis Dpmikio.n- remarks that wo in m Sw iJea'Jaud kii*)» '. iit'tlo About 'Home liule, lid's, may bo qtiilo triisj Wt-- is. liavid'ly aii cfscuso for him to givs a false inipreKskin on the siiblcot. |lo speaks of.t'ho "financia) absa.rd(ty' ;! of iiome. Kule, aiuj t makes one :of his cliicf -points out of tie fact that itrp-tittrds 'of Ireland's Customs rffs'eftt}© is taken a 4 Belfast. This sounds father a big item, bti6 whim w* consider fho fact ''that Ireland is almost <a Fr«64trad.o country, and tTiiifc nraeti-* cfttty the oriVy commodity paying, dirty is tojMO-r, wo begin to wonder'if t%'J,torts» '. i-iti I*arira-raei>t would., after all:, fed tlie Tjettasfc Customs, a .parajprng loss, if tj-lster : -kc.pt alopf from -Saiiie. KttltK It is true that Eiiglaud 'Wis malic- up for a year or two (;»s she lias (tone 'i.u the past) fiku one-and :fl halfHiiillidii deBeit ill Irish, rewqimc;.; but it is a:ts.o~tnj<? ' that 'th.o-. .pi.-ese'ui, iGoverii'njmJt of/ Ire* knd is thte most' e-xpefijivq 6'o'V*)f'ni>ieiit '■ m the- world fair ti'io -sizeaftd -po-jixila- ■ Mon of *he caunti!y» lioiiwrt, wiJib. 1: -bei- teal family, troops,, eta.-, spends ' four and a half' iwilfen on ©3s!e'M:ifieii!;> '' ixeiaild so-voii and a ka : l{*mi.tiioii. Sttfe--1 fy a I'aftiamotit w-i't : h it's hea-ft iii t'ho ■country it te .goyoniiiig c.aii. cut il.oW ' : osptfu'ssjs until there is itp ■.deficit iii. |. revenue. And "t'lsW Scot" complains d the h:alf w.fflfeft which is $6- bo -giveit as" the direct subsidy ti> -irGTanc},, '. but as the. litt-if-e-i'iai Partianiettt keeps I ' tile pOrsfe, where else is I'rdafld to get '. -{lie money frojh.? ' : Ireland,, -as soon its she is firmi'y oii ' I'iCr feet, is to bo s-espausibie for lief share of l.im>ciial, .expenses, thus Bio ' Cspoii'Scs afisliig out of t'tiA old ago ': aciisidiis, the inxurfliscij Act-, and ttio I ; land Act will bo bofnb % lifer th.d. -sainjo : ■ as -at present* In foot, -England and .Scotland wi.fr benefit fiuaircJaHy almost ". ss WKitjh as Irfaud-. Yon 'm'ay 'con* 1 sfder this fl.ft tHoplaii .-dfca-ni bf 1 -o.ttsivt to be, but ViJat wfat iwll bo.y.. b-P-'t ' mj' a-'n-Swer is t'h'aii scs-e-n .aiid a few- ' wlli-bii for iho g&vcrijinonti of a cotin-. ! : 'trviife irolaud teases plenty of cipiior- ', tan-ity to cut do\v:p oispensej "to the ex« 1 ccffl'i I h'aro desciibc^.—l am., eitv.-,