On Wednesday a Conference to consider the revival of Irish
industries was held in Dublin, at which Mr. Pirrie dealt with the plan for providing transport facilities in rural Ireland which he and Lord Iveagh are going to carry out. He called upon his fellow-countrymen to be self-reliant and to work out their own salvation, and he declared that if in the North they could occupy so enviable a position as they did in regard to the textile industries and shipbuilding, there was no reason why agriculture should not be developed also. We sincerely hope that his words may be made good. Besides, Ireland is the nearest place in Europe to the New World, and ought to be "the jumping-off place" for America, and so she would be if only the tunnel between Ireland and Scotland could be made. We trust that this matter of the tunnel will not be forgotten in the coming era of Irish development.
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