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The Open Secret of Ireland

CHAPTER VII
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Having in Opposition denounced the land taxes with indecent bitterness they will, when back in office, confirm and extend them.
"Ulster" had far better cast in her lot with Ireland.

She will find an Irish Assembly not only strikingly but, one might almost add, sinfully conservative in matters of taxation.

As to the conflict between the agrarian and the manufacturing interests, that also exists in every nation on the earth.

But neither has any greater temptation to plan the destruction of the other than a merchant has to murder his best customer.
There remains the weltering problem of mixed marriages and the _Ne Temere_ decree.

It is perhaps worth observing that marriages get mixed in other countries as well as in Ireland.


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