With it there has been growing the further conviction that poverty, in the midst of untapped resources, is a national crime.

The propagation of these two beliefs by journals of the newer school such as _The Leader, Sinn Fein,_ and _The Irish Homestead_ has leavened the whole mass of Irish life in our time.

The Industrial Development Associations, founded on them as basis, have long ago "bridged the Boyne." At their annual Conferences Belfast sits side by side with Cork, Derry with Dublin.

It is not merely that the manufacturers and traders have joined hands to advance a movement beneficial to themselves; the best thought of every class in the country has given enthusiastic support to the programme on grounds not of personal interest but of national duty.

We may therefore take it that the watchword of the Second Empire, _Enrichissez-vous,_ will be the watchword of a self-governing Ireland.