Ma A correspondent has sent us a circular which has been
issued the illegal Irish Parliament, Dail Eireann, to rate-collectors. ny of the rate-collectors, who are the servants of the Crown, have not been sufficiently convinced or sufficiently terrorized by Sinn Fein to obey the instructions of Dail Eireann.
Consequently they have refused to collect rates and hand them over to the local councils which have joined their fortunes with Dail Eireann. Naturally, they fear penalties and financial loss for breaking their bond. The circular, after explaining how unreasonably and even wickedly these rate-collectors are behaving, ends with the following threat :— " This Department has done everything possible to meet the collector& Alter this circular it will appeal no more, but will sot sternly and swiftly as a government, and as a government 14 a state of war. The rate-collector cannot be allowed to dictate to the Irish Nation. Rather let them hear through this Department the voice of the Irish Nation, ' Collect or resign'—or take the consequences."
The " consequences," we suppose, will be that the unhappy rate-collector, who still trembles and is idle between the devil and the deep sea, will be shot.
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