[Footnote 11: "Supplement Fifty-fourth Report Inspectors of Lunacy." Alex Thorn. Dublin. 1906. P. VII.] [Footnote 12: _Ibid_. P. XXVII.] [Footnote 13: "Sixty-second Annual Report of the Registrar General for Scotland, 1916." His Majesty's Stationery Office. Edinburgh. 1918. P. LXVII.] [Footnote 14: "Marriages, Births, and Deaths in Ireland, 1917." P. XII.] [Footnote 15: "Supplement Fifty-fourth Report Inspectors of Lunacy." P. XXXII.] [Footnote 16: "The Woman's National Health Association and Infant Welfare." The Child. June, 1911. P. 10.] [Footnote 17: Figures supplied by H.C. Ferguson, Superintendent of Charity Organization Society, Belfast, 1919.] [Footnote 18: "Irish Education Act, 1892." (55 & 56 Vict.) Chap. 42. P. 1.] [Footnote 19: _Ibid_. P. 1.] [Footnote 20: _Ibid_. P. 4.] [Footnote 21: _Ibid_. P. 3.] [Footnote 22: _Ibid_. P. 8 et al.] [Footnote 23. "Vice-regal Committee of Enquiry into Primary Education, Ireland, 1918." His Majesty's Stationery Office. Dublin. 1919. P. 22.] [Footnote 24: _Ibid_. P. 22.] [Footnote 25: _Ibid_. Martin Reservation. P. 27-30.] [Footnote 26: _Ibid_. P. 8.] [Footnote 27: _Ibid_. P. 39.] II SINN FEIN AND REVOLUTION WILL SOCIAL CONDITION LEAD TO IMMEDIATE REVOLUTION? "Eamonn De Valera, the President of the Irish Republic, who has been in hiding since his escape from Lincoln jail, will be welcomed back to Dublin by a public reception. Tomorrow evening at seven o'clock he will be met at the Mount street bridge by Lawrence O'Neill, Lord Mayor of Dublin...." The news note was in the morning papers. In small type it was hidden on the back pages--the Irish papers have a curious habit of six-pointing articles in which the people are vitally interested and putting three-column heads on such stuff as: "Do Dublin Girls Rouge?" That day the concern of the people was unquestionably not rouge but republics. For the question that sibilated in Grafton street cafes and at the tram change at Nelson pillar was: "Will Dublin Castle permit?" Orders and gun enforcement. The empire did not deviate from the usual program of empires--action without discussion. In the crises that are always occurring between organized revolt and the empire, there is never any consideration of the physical agony that goads the people to revolt. There wasn't now. By early afternoon, the answer, on great, black-lettered posters, was swabbed to the sides of buildings all over town: "DE VALERA RECEPTION FORBIDDEN!" That was the headline, and after instructions warning the people not to take part in the ceremony, the government order ended: "GOD SAVE THE KING!" How would the revolutionaries reply? Rumors ran riot. The Sinn Fein volunteers would pit themselves against His Majesty's troops. The streets would be red again. The belief that the meeting would be held in spite of the proclamation was supported by a statement on green-lettered posters that appeared later next the British dictum: