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THE HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 18886.
HOME RULE.
About 400 of its members are hold-
ers, owning about fourteen andlwe quer-
-a ter minima of screw Their attitude as
lead velure may always be &*.deleted.
.A POI/00W 'Ptm fbr an Irish They are obstwotiealata. Their in-
PsMiafrnent Imam is IiWL es tasty be interred from
Ike fact list limy hese at their diepueal
nearly 5,000 Mssibsm, sad that the are
chairmen and direetere of ever a they
railways. Ewes tie Cummoos of
England ver pour hopes for reform.
The arietuasoy cat the country hes •
strong hold there also are There ais
the Commons • large number who are
either peers, or cunneoted with the peer-
age ley birth or marriage. A lame num-
ber •.f laud holden sit there also, some
of them uwnipj; over 200,000 acres.
There is room for r,me radical reforms
in the lion of the Commons.
Only recently I onuld hare shown 700
120 towns of over 10,000 inbabitauts
each without a solitary •,
and hero • village of only 140 electors
Yet baying one. Here 40 b.,nwghs each
h•viug a representative, there 18 cities
having 26 times the population and 50
times the amount of income tax, but
only the same number of fives.
D -es that system represent the people;
That I am not misjudging the peen mq
be seen in their vote on the measure to
check arbitrary evictions. It was intro-
duced on July 3d, 1880, and of the 500
peers, 51 voted fur it. do of the Ten-
ants Rights Bill introduced by Lord
Holl in 11178- SO of the Compensation
ler Disturbance Bill 1 by the
late Mr looter wnu anew trwiwuu
her . On matters of a purely
political character the peen aro divided
pretty evenly, but when land interest.
are touches they are almost • solid
Wt. Or. mora.. rrr.aeeni of rhe messes.
ea IMMa't.taegr, *.*eche*., Lectures
1■ ais4.r$rb.
;coot mord from set week.I
Ireland has had her fair share cat re-
f.:eeent•tion ts the Rntish Parliament,
*let can she not be happy l My answer
is. she is suffering from a laud monopoly
at tn►.luttuus u any that ever cppreseed
a people. The huge estates made up d
lands taken tram the natives in the
several ciotscatwns are now held by
Landlords, mostly ..f foreign blood, gen-
erally absentees, who farm out their
revenue to middle neu reganilew of ode
ietereets of the tenants. Not one seventh
•f the land is in the hands of the native
Celt. Al drama the veer -
try annually of what should be spent in
t:. Theo, more than three-fourths of all
the land in Ireland is owned by:1722men
who average over 4,000 acreeeech. Seven
•f these have over 100,000 acres, sad
fifteen more have between 50,1100 and
100,000 each These owners and their
families would not number 30,000 of the
papulstion, the fraction of
the island is left to the Irish people
numbering over two mullion.. But these
few lani.'eolders really euntrul the legis-
lation of the country, and by their cum-
btaatien with English and Scotch land -
h olden can check any measure for the
retie
et the land laws. No country in the
world except Scotland has its soil mon-
, polized by such • handful of indi-
viduals. But Scotland has not half as
many inhabited houses, and its people
aro mostly of the Milne faith. Were I
to quote the British authorities at my
command to prove that the land system
u the cause of the trouble, 1 might keep
y.1u here all night. A few shall be men-
tioned. The Iron Duke, Lord Mel-
b•iurue, Major Warburton, Cobden,
Earl Grey, Lord Derby, Lord John Ru.-
ee1l, Bright, and Gladstone sad our
friend Guldwin Smith. Earl Gray de-
clared that "The Went was a iseraee
to a civilised country." John
remelt said, "Mon than 50,000 fami-
lies were turned out of their wretched
buldings without pity, sod "'about a
refuge. We have made Ireland — I
speak it deliberately—we have made it
the moat degraded, tate most miserable
country in the world." Bright isequally
emphatic : "The greet evil of Ireland is
this the Irish people -the Irish nation
are d' .l from the soil, and that
what we ought to do is to provide for
and aid in their restoration to it by all
measures of justice." ,Lord Dutferio de
Ascribes the land tenure as "One which
no Christian would offer, and none but •
reedman would accept." Carlyle says,
"Wo English pay the bitter "mart of
long iojustuce to our neighbor Ireland."
Mr MiII in his Political Ecouumy says,
"The land of Ireland, the land of any
country belongs to the people of that
country." It lathe duty of to
reform the land tenure of Ireland, jus-
ticesires that the actual cultivators
should enabled to become in Ireland
what they will berme in America, pro-
pnett# of the soil which they cultivate.
The Irish ideas are the general idem of
the human race. It is the English idem
j,hat are peculiar. Even Disraeli, Glad -
stone's great rival,satd, "Ireland isteem-
tog with a starring populationand suffers
from an absentee aristocracy. * * The
only remedy is . , which is pre-
vented by connection with powerful
Eogland. Therefore, England is 'lost
callsI in an odious position, twinsg the
cieNb or the misery of Ireland." Green
in his Bimtoryot the English People says,
"Disloyalty sprang from poverty, and
Poverty from unjust laws" Professor
Isokitelof Edinburgh, says,"Among the
many acts d inseams branding the Eng -
t
•Nay
The present demand for flame Rale
is not the result of • spasmodic pettic•l
digest on the part of lrihmen. If ever
patience was exhausted it has been in
our case. Motion after motion has been
made to correct the monstrous land laws,
but all to no snail. From 1871 to 1881
thirty-one bills were presented for that
purpose, all to be withdrawn, dropped
et. rejected. Some of them succeeded
in reaching the Lords, when their fate
was sealed. No difficulty was found in
passing setae bills durlag that decade
to hold the outraged tenantry in sub-
jection. There is a point beyoud which
that Nye separattes. Permit bee try. Yet I have met such character& Naotland. Wales, Canada, Audrelia and tu tkusk that the religi•wr ieedetatri re
baso joshed,hesarrd ptompdy detailed (sly lest week I met me set woman( as Ionia each with is own laarliameut for rear are .o.swsnat reepeneible Hitt the
the Cablegrams have been to actually ask d Inland really was op- heal aff.trs, while an imperial parka• srctsn.n feud*. note us immesh tleI-
ps� the leaders of the Led He reminded me of the pour meet composed of reprspwtatives of the phew put Mem the frusta on whish we
Iwegw 1a America., to be as promptly fellow suffering trues name. who was different provino.e or states, as they diger, toe little en these on whale we
All the great Irialrn leamieq
kis head no the MOM and retch- might be culled would attend to tape- ages. But the Lm-
tt.r are these e
Mire s eetre
td the idea. Pet the tippet inq vtoleartly to relieve hirearlf. He pial matters. The fea.i►i.ity of the phasue.. by Chrest. 11 the tellies apn-
oea el Home Rule publish the lis u was sp,onsched by • sympathiser with plan is peeved try the century of flee hall dlscueseed hall the wbjestethat
delibeeetely as it it had sever been re- eke gwstiuu, "Are you sick 1" Straijbt- American expxieobe. It s as easily outer tuto the tbe+.l.tcy of ser day,
pedia$Sd, sed in the in6oitds d their ening himself up be honked the laterite applied to a monarchy as t.. a republic. they would have dtlfrred as smelt Y we.
impede/ice tall tb.waelves uniuoiste and eater in the face and replied, "Did you it the empire is to be held together at They emphasteed the few principles that
loyalists as t1, ftrsouth thew adeucattns think 1 was doing it for fun t' I cos- will be federation. Even now,N,otliusii, were to save the world. On these we
Home Kele fur 'relied were less loyal mood the Socratic answer loamy emerald Wale& and Inds are agetattug house are root far apart. There le erre
th they. It is appalling the depths to friend. Another question that a iono- Rule. This will snulve a "nits*. come- need for hotter understantding smog*
- ' the p Iiticisu and the beret can costly put is this, "Ari, the land laws oN ' tutus on the American plan. Even God's children. We gr. to the same
fall or stoop. But lel us put the blame Ireland any worse than thaw of Eng- Feud. says, "I am court,ced that we re:npture.. we fray to the ease Od
no hesitancy to saying that "wither
Scotland, Ede i f
vies would have endured what Ireland
has submitted W. And in advocating
the now asked by oar coun-
try we occupy the position taken by abs
meat Chatham and Burne and the beet
friends of Britain in 1776. Like Re
hohoam of old, the poor, silly king
George, was ill advised, and the nation
lost more than her colonies But spite
of the of the only loyalists
of that day, some of the most eminent
statesmen saw that the "Declaration of
Rights" of 1774, was a manly protest
against wrongs such as no Briton should
submit to. Lord Camden std several
of the Lords .ympathixed with the
colonists The new prime minister, the
Marquis of Rockingham, thought them
right. But never did Mr Pitt utter
more patriotic words than when he said
ie the Commons, "You have no right to
tax America. I rejoice that America has
!twisted. Three millions of our fellow
subjects -so lost to every sense 01 virtue,
as tamely to give up their liberties,
would be 6t - to make alarm
of the ret." These words struck •
chord in the heart d every freeman.
They were the thoughts of the yeuman-
ry of England, and of its tradesmen and
They expressed the
mind e•f Ireland, especially of Ulster.
But the only loyalists of 1776 1
the war, maintaining that "Parliament
had the right to bind the colonists in al
eases whatever." I do not say that an
English parliament coal
Ireland, but I do say that by common
consent she is the wont governed coun
try in Europe. There hu been experi-
menting enough at the cost of our poor
downtrodden country. The crisis has
come. ()no man of splendid menta
lash character in their bludering pre- calibre, and graced with all the culture
tens of Ireland, not the least that even this cultured age could ,lire,
was the practice of confiscating the land has been watching fleece is,
which by real law belonged to the pe- for the last 50 years..Ath,ongh an En¢-
ple, and giving it not to honest resident man, often has bis voice beeq plead io
cultivators, which might have been a ..pniWN vel our wringe, At last, as if
poli port p01 theft, bet re cepa of caught in the grip of an irresistible con -
Ti d P
where it rightly belongs. It u a Strutt- land f' I shall answer that question in
gle net of Kiiglishmest and I'rute.taots the words of the late Prime Minister of
amend Irishmen and Catholics, bat of • England, "It is only the skeletuas of
privileged class meant the "weed of the laws of the two countries :hat bear
principles that challeng their rights. arty resemblance to, each other. Tee
it is the struggle of monopoly arid "el- dash and the bleed with which the
fishnet* against the common weal. lin figures are invested aro wholly different.
the 19th •4f last June there was a grand All the , all the assecia-
rally in Her M.jesty's Theatre under the tions and all the ac:rotl•ns that have
auspices of the Primrose Clab. Lord grown around the native ideas are dig.
Salsbury received an neaten, and in the (trent in one °wintry from what they
course of bis remarks said that •'the cb
ject of the club was to secure united op-
position to the food of inf lelity and s,
cialsei which u at present menacing the
w'e'd" Su¢gestire word. those ; but
tieliahury must have read history back-
ward if be does not know that modern
infidelity received its greatest impulse,
its chief apology from the cold apathy,
the dead f.rusality, the Christie**
selfishness of state churches both in
E France, that had the
churoh in these countries been living
in the hearts of the people, and
supported by the hove
of the people, neither English Do
iste uor French Encyclopedists would
bare had • planaible pretext for
existence. And as to socialism, be
knows th.t it is the legitimate outgrowth
of European despotism. It is the on-
whules,me spawn of one -Sided govern-
ment ; it is the ill-omened progeny of
le legislation. In free coun-
try it is an exotic. Where manhood
suffrage exists, where those subject to
the laws hare an opportunity of saying
what the laws shall be, and of correcting
them when wrong, socialism and comer
monism have uo right to exist, and we
predict that our American friends can
wetly stamp out all such
1 that --Har Primrose Chub
meeting "numbered at levet 5,00U, and
of the
of England." Doubtless,
and thee" not present in propria persona
were there in .pint. The privileged
clam of Britain present a 'olid frunt
against any attempt to limit their priei
Imes. So it has always been. Every
attempt to relieve religious disabihUe.
has been vet by the solid and persistent
of the lords spiritual, and
every attempt to bring the land laws of
Britain into harmony with the thoughts
of the age has been opposed by the lords
temporal. In 1868 the disestablishment
of the Irish church produced an outcry
similar to that now greeting our ears I
need not tell a Conedian audience that
the Church establishment was a horrid
blunder both political and religious. and
an insult to all not within its pale. Earle
Angleeea, Fortescue and Carlisle, who
had been Lids Lieutenant of Ireland ;
Brougham. Truro and Campbell, Chan-
cellors of England, Secretarys of State,
shall, begs" long, have, w some way, the. ugh the sante Spirit in the noose
to assimilate our form .of to .,f the sa.ue elutes. Che abibb.letha cat
the American model But eke einem tete church 1, 4s11 (,used her trays, aa1
Call system u n• -t the only ewe that has written har threcediea. There u nu
been tested. Norway aid Sweden have c•o,.ntry wt v..tl. wore rrhttiutee then
only one king, but essh natienbasitsowu tri .ted, but ler forty ha* bran per
-
only
sed three is no antral par rented and 1„•i..."ed by mutual distrust.
liament bre butt. Another plan is that We smut gra c1'e►rr toyettier, and 'moonier
in force in Austro Hungary. Bach hes better ..squau,trd Prot and prseby-
its own parliament and there is an tut- ter. the auur h, tiwtly, let thew
penal parhauu.ut in which the nations lee ..vet' o, penile; feeecher our ounntry-
arein the ether. We cannot came r are equally I. But the Amer• wen, .-. lour ..md e• betty eet,anged. On
ftuint in which the rotation .f lean plan u incomparably the best for no ,,cher .uoje-t have we bittern such
landlord and tenant to Indeed and
Great Britain are the same except
only in what 'night be called the
abstract and general idea." Another
tramp homely aska, "Why cannot the
Catholics of Ireland be satisfied like the
Protestants of Ulster 1 What right hare
they to special laws T Iwo there be one
sat for the whole empire 1” That has
the air vet , fi-
cial and fallacious. Some would mea-
sure human history, yea, human aspi-
rations and smbititione by the yardstick,
or throw them into the scales and tell
them off iu Founds avoirdupois. Rut
man caned thus ha mea.ur.sL Its
intellect, sensibilities and will. And
the sensibilities of my countrymen have
molly been ignored. "His prejudices,
superstitions and traditions," it is de-
clared, "are the cause of .11 the trouble.
If Ireland were all Protestant it would
be satisfied." I would scorer to admit
that last statement. But wore it true,
it would only prove that the laws made
for Ireland are suited to a Protestant
, while three -fourth of the
paopl. are Catholics. Is that
wise legislation t L it legislation
for the people 1 Why should the prejo-
d tions end traditions of t=1 -
seer )a" respected, while those of the
Catboi
it that Ulster is free trete thew 1 Don't
tell that to an Ulster man. What are
we all but the result o1 our idiosynera-
cies and t since childhood 1
The fireside, the "ch -eel, the church: the
traditions of our race, our home,our fam-
ily, of the sacred hands that touched our
beads in the morning of life : of the
kind wards that asaured it. et God stud
Christ and the angels and the unseen
world, s, that these thoughts aro inersd• thank God that it u not tete, and I have wade Eegisod what she is Their
iosble. There is no people under the woeld b. ashamed of my Proteataatism doom is sealed, but . diversion is made
stars with national more i( it were. The leader el the Natioo•1 by stirring up sectarian strife, and Uhes
clearly marked as those of my country- lata in Ireland u a Proteetant, the peer• proclaiming to the nation that Irelaad is
men. No people more susceptible of the less statesman that championed our cause tonp.bie of son govwroment Myeown-
iaduences I have jest mentioced. Inco- in Parliament s a Protestant, the Ten- ruse ' shall we remain forever the
lent politicians have again and again ant Rights League of 1850 was under the nese of thew detwgeiee monopohieta i
taunted them with being aliens in coon- leadership of Dr McKnight, the editor of Caa't you see the card that is beiing play_
try, race and religion. Grant it all for the i'rote.twat Renner, of Belfast, the ed arsine eta T And shall we not mite
the motnent. It is only • stringer ream- father of the present Home Rule move- a for the salyatiuo of our ooentry 1 The
on for self• t. Would the sent, Mr Isaac Butt, was a Protestant.
habitants of Quebec furnish legislators
for the people of Ontario( Or, to use •
Prime Ministers, two chief secretary* of still stn,nger illurtratic,n, would Catholic
Ireland, all pleaded for disestablish Irishmen be likely to govern wisely the
menu Lord Lytton said the words habitant.? Thew latter are oo-religion-
"irish Church" are the -greatest bull in �, yet 1 have very vivid recollections
the language, called "Irish" bo -cause not of the lack of harmony between these
for the Irish. Yet the war cry was rale- races when I lined in Quebec. They are
ei as now and for the same purpose, to unable to the delicate fibre
divert attention from the real issue. that Ina been woven into both warp and
"Tbe Church in Danger" "Protestant- wucf of the history of each nationality,
ism in Danger," "The Nation in Dan- and that makes each what it is ; sod in
ger," "The Inion in Danger," and the their ignorance of each other's
1 language was exhausted for invectives sad tradition., they would be in aang.r
to hurl at the head of those laboring to of Lacerating the suet sensitive Midrib
.1 ly. Protestant de- in the human heart Tisa Teuton-4ii-
Lute0 meeting were held in ail the bilge hot govern the Celt nor the Celt the
Citi.. of Ireland, and prutwla-miles long Teuton. If ever there was any doubt of
were sent to Westminster against it. The the truth of this, the attempt to govern
privileged church and the parege were Ireland would surely settle the question
almost a unit in support of the iniquity. forever. Parliament after parliament
I And when in the famous four nights' has struggled with the difficulty. Peer -
debate on the bill Mr Gladstone poured i ages, bribes, Intimidation, armies of sc-
out his eloquence in fiver of it, cnpancy, duepos..ssing the native far-
t-
ar-
Chafer thrr,;,cm.d u it does now, mer and introducing a futehtn element,
"Lei Mir friend Johnston, sof Ballykibeg, but all in vain. Keo long as the uncon-
in his loyalty 1 the law. queisble spirit of the race, its historical
and found himself in prison. The bill , eye, even itt tradition.
was armed finally by 368 to 250. Yet, and prejudices, are left out of the tic -
from the press of that day, and the count, it 1 pnrh.r,'tnf rnonl.e
perfervid protests of the ro-called b)al- nus i1,,r ridi.hu attire. Sir, every at•
iota, you would have supposed that Pm- tempt to govern !relied, unless on the
the federation of the empire. The pros fatal ted y. 1 road in the Scripture",
out for Hume Rule is not a `/.,.d t.'rbi 1 teat 1 should glory save tit
surprise sprung up.at the people. In the ('r.,a. of ,.ur Lord Jesus Christ.' I
the Queen's speech of 1881, the river') tarn and err a pious ('.tholic at his da
mens of the day, through Her Majesty, vette., and .awing him teak" the sign of
declared that a err .ystent ed local the Crum, my reason departs. I joie in
t should be built up in Ire the hymn,
land, that such a change was undipon- ' In the Crag.. cat t'hnst 1 mora,
Bible. Mr. Chamberlain declared on •t•uwrrtntr e'er ties wed .cat flees
the 18th ++f Jame of , it Alt tt.e ltytotund 11.head •Lwtas
"The .E Ireland was sen- I pass a place of w..rshtp and see it sar-
traliced as that of Russia in Poland, and m..uuted by tee Cruse, and the blinding
that the first duty of the taw parka- audiences of early prejudices prevent me
sect w}.uId be to organ lie & system trout seeing that in this sign we are to
which would give the Irish people the congu.r. I cannot tell C.thelis prej.diewe
°hugefj of their own local basin r'eemetottwee mote 1 mum, tare ye
And l'noldwin Smith wrote then, '`Thr equally
Ile. I ka.w of no
firmest adherents of the union will hard- work mere neceessry to the paves of Ire•
ly deny that Ireland "offers from davint laud than the.removal of thew.ectarien
everything carried t'. 1Cestminster, and
rat -tines. Hvome !tubs car nu Home
that she would be the better fur more Rule, there a iso peace or prosperity for
special legislation. The premises pre- our country till w. here learnt to trust
wet • tory basis for local one suether, end stand by mai other.
legislature., especially as the Protest Hew barn w we are' leer contracted
ante who might fall out with the Cath- our eisioti How hies we eterei a the
Cath-
olics are mainly 1 in Ulster. charity that "hopeth all thin:a" and
Among other Irish •luestiens those re- •ethibketh no evil" if died were eke m,
eating to education with which it is def i• and would judger the aigrettes as they
cult to deal freely at Westminster might, judge each ether, heaven would have
perhaps, bit advautageuosly left to the many apsrtmeets to kt. But I believe
Irish peuple." h the Catholic Moet'.
1 nets is one class ,,f that • •q teere'. • wtde.w in poly amerce.'
• tbo,eo that here Like tie widowed* at ttts wee 1
made this movement the occasion of re There's• ktladaess ie his emcee
riving sectarian bitterness, and sounding roe tee tove�.46�ed 1
the old war cry Frees nothing has Ire-
Mid
vette m of mems miat-
Aad et.* heart .1 The Dental
land suffered w much as from this, and is meet weaderhtlty kinds
the moo had better never been born than Had we more of that spirit, we Dodd mot
that he should prostitute theeacred came be pitted against each other by design -
of religion to .udaimer the liberties of a inr toes, who ase to our wee, the plo-
pe•ple. The very sir u thick with the longation of their tyranny. Lend mon
thought that all Protestants are opposed opoly u called ea questwu, imapossable
to Home Rule, all Catholics are for it. I uioa is cballeegd by the men who
n , ollearcits,who di noth-
ing for the country they had appropriat-
ed, bet suck its blood in the oan.e of
land rent, end squander its wealth un-
der the tame of fashion and pleasure in
... London." Gold win Smith says: "Analien
and absentee proprietary is the imreed isle
source of their troubles The owner-
ship of land in that country i. itaelf the
heritage of confiscation, and of confisca-
tion which has never been forgotten.
The struggle is in fact the last stage of
a long civil war between the Conquered
Fy, wincb
e pelitwel
\std the
eh creed ,.
race and an intrusive propria
was closely identified with t�
of the foresgner,
retie:tee of an ali
That the land system is th
of the trouble may be inferred
from the nature •.f the crimes that pre•
yail. They are usually of an agrarian
form ---and Gu!dwin Smith says, again :
"The districts where agrarian •iuknoe
has most prevailed has been singularly
ire from ordinary crime. The Irish
farmer has clung desperately to his
bom.eteed. Evicti.n is t.o him ole"titu.
tion." in another pleas (hrldwin Smith
Stye. "The crime (of the Irish) is rattly
af!t•rian. in f(yatricte where it ha(
been meat rife, ev Tipperary itaelf, or-
dinary offences hale been eery rare "
And,he continues, "Justice require" that
we rememher the training which the
Irish as a nation have had, and of which
the traces are still left upon their manic -
tete In 17951 they were kneeled into open
rebellion by the wholeule ref/gine. half-
hangtnv, pitch copping and packstine
wbaeb were carried on neer a Ierge die-
triet try the yerrmarry anti militi. men,
yrlri, as ram es the oviform', mases he-
re
e-
to leave with demffrNi n were
C neh«l upon the homes of the peasant-
aty. ' 11 a useless to multiply •toot•
oldies The mom eminent id British
gateau en, Phreah es well as English,
have eekwowledeed the wrong deme to
Inetond, and have been willing t.. ',wrest
it Itet Britaiaia Merely a platnerwy -
the landed interests cmte,l its legi•la-
tinw, Masao HI dig/seek • el the rue,
and the aacerdty for Heise Rale.
Pv-es the mane of Leos, se a maw
ef soiree, ttothhg .eels be impeded.
auas
victim that this complex tyranny most
cease to be s stench in the nostrils of
freemen, he lifted up his voice and held
enrapt the ear of humanity. The
echoes of that speech, one of the grand
est ever heard in famed W •
*111 barer wawa to vibrate till the last
It has been so in nearly all the airu(tttla
of the last century. The leaden hare
generally been Protestants with the ea-
ception of the great O'Connell. The
who secured for Iretaetd the
repeal of the Poj mitt`. Act in 1782 were
mostly Protestants, so were the United
Irishmen, and the Ulster rebels of '98,
when five Presbyterian ministers were
Beet to the scaffold, une cat them, Dr.
Porter, being hung between the manse
and the meeting house. It is far from
being true that the Protestauts of Ire-
land, or Canada either, aro opposed to
Home Rule, alliiougb the ..1f-oowtit-
uted reprrantetives of loyalty have made
e tl0mawhat unpopu fur a Protestant
minister to stand by his country's cause.
Presbyterianism has been mentioned as
being opposed, and hen I am glad to be
able to add • name that is itself • tower
of strength, that et • man who spent six-
teen years in Ireland, and had abundant
opportunity of ling the Irish
cause, I mean the grand Dr. McCosh, of
Princeton, N J. In a recent letter, such
as none but a greathearted San could
write, he urges has P friends
in lrolead to accept the situation, and to
tight the battle on the new ground. He
can me ro ground for doubting the ulti-
mate success of the cause. The Woe.,
testantism was to be forever sobmerred, principle r f Home Rule, will result in a of July 26th, published the following
- land the star of England to ¢o down in "ridiculous mum" -not the harmless cablegram ;
, perpetual obscurity. But the sun rose encs of the Latin, but • genuine Haber- '•A vt'saTayss Pru tr. There a big "nit
las uvula and the Ftiun Jack boated as smear ale Wesler.n clergy Over iia lase rime . tint atrtntt
change most make room tor the
(arose, and the Green for the Orange.
They wu.t both leave room for others.
When the violet, indigo, Mw, green.
yellow, orange •rad red are properly
blended they produce the pore, white
light, which shows neither 'orange see
green, bot contains both. So when the
various religious beliefs of our day shall
have devoted their energies to the
preaching of Imre to God and man, the
ear epee of all true religion, buth Catho-
lic and Pr..t.staat, will merge is the
broader, sweeter word. Christian. Ire-
land united would be happy, and pr'o's-
perous, and irresistible. And jest se we
aro likely to emceed in harmoaiatag our
differences, the loyalty of Dome west
rind in the most inflammatory
end irritable c . i am almost
• Quaker on war. i believe that the day
will come when under the u,dueoce vt
our holy Christianity,
"ro longer hosts - boots
Shall crowds of slain deplore
They'll hang ter trumpet in the Wl,
And study war no more."
But should 1 ever be called to the field,
and could I hare the arranging of the
contending fuece.. I would take • rime
ment of my fell..w•countrymeo--the
C .nnaugbt Rangers or the Enniskillen
Dreenxone, or both --and pointing to the
• ' ' arpies who fatten on the the-
me—se et their fellow men. I would
give tee command, "Charge e. without
link in landlord tyrr•nnv is broken
and not Ireland alone, but England
,and Scotland shall exult in the final exi
of plutocratic insolence. W. E. Glad
stone stands today, by common consent,
the most colossal figure among the treat
men of oar countyThe acer.e was
was phemcmenal. Tbere Wend • man
bending under the weight of great age.
Seventy-seven winters and summers had
passed over him. As in 1776, the Con
wreathes wets • solid phalanx again.
Some e:f biotite friend. had
heoome faint-hearted and had withdrawn
by the 'core. Hie own cabinet vat:neat
ed, then deserted. The pres. derided
the measure, and the royal family were
fairly stunned at the temerity of th
lean who could suggest home Rule fo
Ireland. It was piihlicly announced
that her Majeet was bitterly nppneed M
the Hut over hes•• was siva
t• the occasion, and held spellbound
for three hours and • half the choicest
audiences that ever crowded Int(
1t
Anti when tha' Hall. An h
speech way tensed •midst thunders
of enntinned applause,it was admitted h
all whether friend or foe, that oar cause
had been championed by the first man i
England. It is also as freely •dmitt
that whether the hitt defeated in the let
parliament he carried in the next . r vet
the cause is gained.
"E'er right is right slew fieri It iters.
Awl richt the day mast win.
To Aeolis would be disloyalty.
To falter would be sin."
Twn dread though.ls sr* embraced
home rule, and the land purchase
Avainst the first there can he no valid
objeetinn. I )n all sides we se. told, "
have no ohj.etie a to a meaemre of
rile far i,wised, het ,'• and the "bat" is
small, the big .rad of the seet.wee w
are asked to emery. Nolhisg hes show
more fill the depth to whish sense ean
islet $ thee the effort t0 seises Ube peko-
e.
ed
Il. seed against hems mho by rinsing
,I 1 dproudlyEngland T largefIreland le led be a P
serene y an as ever he estates n s ob lees of sympathy
very minutely as to the tree
be t(0 ministers who slimed as ad of th" yam ices who have so I
with 1tr.Oladetonr are orf I , 5 tabled our L. and 1 sou'•' 'sg
on the 8th of Mayas on the 7th.Bet,Eng- subdivided for the sake of the millions. ttcieed by otnrn who are t atoatsr•. elm,a
(' Iand wet healthier, for there had been Lave each of the 3,722 landh..ldere 1 nowtln likely
erk for to up in the Con tread' pre ispecief a.the charge ah'inld be so vidie"
nor
' safely removed and without tbiose of an- referred to 1,000 acres, and livid. the Neither is the Methodist Church in tie -.s leave a relic to pert statue the
!esthetics a moat deadly polite -el cancer, balance into farm. of 20 acres, and you
and • most irritating muse of disloyalty. have nearly 1100,000 farms An Irish -
No sane man believes that dise.tsbliah- man on • 20 acre fa'm that he cculd call
ment an endanger religion. The his own in fee simple would have his
church of England and Seeland harp off the willows and lie with his own
would be stronger today were the meadow lark in thanksgiving. L see
last link binding them to the state large sum" mentioned as the price of
t severed. Multitudes, of both Ca'holics these estates, and i admit that in many
and Protestants 1 that cases the present occupants are innocent
with the lees of temporal power holden, but 1 cannot help thinking that
- Catholicism( would totter to its fall. (smoldering the way those estates were
Disestahlisbment threw hack the Church
upon the loyalty of its memhera and
e there it lives today. And when a church
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