HOME RULE FUNDS.
ALLEGED APATHY IN IRELAND. Received February 26, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, February 25. Mr John Redmond, Bishop O'Donnell and Mr O'Mara (member for Kilkenny South), trustees of the Parliamentary Fund of the Irish Party, renew through Freeman's Journal their appeal for subscriptions. Since December, £1,650 has been subscribed, whereof £I,OOO was collected in Ireland. Freeman's Journal endorses the appeal. The Times' Dublin correspondent says that the tone of Freeman's Journal suggests that the leaders of the party are disappointed with the progress of the fund in 1906. The people are apathetic, one reason being the growth of the Gaelic League, Sinn Fein, and other bodies that are preaching the futility of Parliamentary action. Another reason is the failure of the leaders to render any public account of sums collected in America and Australia.
According to the Nationalist Press £40,000 is a moderate computation of the amount missions have received throughout the world. The existence of such a sum, adds the Times' correspondent, acts as a drag on the collection of funds in Ireland.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8368, 27 February 1907, Page 5
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175HOME RULE FUNDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8368, 27 February 1907, Page 5
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