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Excerpt from Facts About Ireland: For Consideration of American Citizens by the Delegates of the Protestant Churches of Ireland
Sinn F ein also declares that Ireland is denied any real voice in her own affairs. If Parliamentary representation be a test, how does she stand? Ireland, with a population let it be remembered roughly equal to that of Scotland, sends 105 representatives to the British Legislature, while Scotland sends only 75. Ireland's representatives are elected on a basis of one to every forty thousand of the people, whereas the representatives from England or Scotland are elected on a basis of one to every seventy-three thousand of the people. Thus the vote of one Irishman is almost equal to the vote of two English men or Scotchmen, and the Irish vote has often been the controlling in?uence in the British Legislature.
In addition, the 32 counties of Ireland possess their own local Councils, and again these counties are subdivided into districts, and by the same franchise, district councillors are elected. All such are Irishmen, chosen by the people to carry on local government in each county, and to strike their own rates of taxation within their own borders. No outside power can interfere with the local rates of the county. In twenty-seven of these counties all the county councils and most of the district councils are composed of Roman Catholics. To every office in their gift, these men invariably appoint only people of their own creed. Yet they are the first to charge the Protestant people of Ulster with bigotry. Thus incidentally the charge of Prot estant ascendancy in Ireland is completely disproved. Ireland has indeed the fullest voice in her own affairs.
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