No trades union would admit
representatives of capitalist employers on its committee, and no
organization of farmers should allow alien or opposing interest on their
councils to clog the machine or betray the cause. This is the best
advice I can give reformers. It is the result of many years' experience
in this work. An industry must have the same freedom of movement as an
individual in possession of all his powers. An industry divided against
itself can no more prosper than a household divided against itself. By
the means I have indicated the farmers can become the masters of their
own destinies, just as the urban workers can, I think, by steadfastly
applying the same principles, emancipate themselves. It is a battle in
which, as in all other battles, numbers and moral superiority united are
irresistible; and in the Irish struggle to create a true democracy
numbers and the power of moral ideas are with the insurgents.
VII.
It would be a bitter reproach on the household of our nation if there
were any unconsidered, who were left in poverty and without hope and
outside our brotherhood.
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