The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-21
MISCELLANEOUS IRISH NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS IRISH NEWS.
THE TRIUMPHANT MARCH OF HOME RULE
We must not let the year close without
all sides that Home Rule is rapidly ad.
vancing. Steadily and securely that i'm
portant question has made great progress
during the last twelve months. 1t has
thus been proved to be not mere spas
modic burst of sentimentalism, but calm
and resolute demand founded upon the
strictcst justice. We have labored fol-
years in the good cause of advocating this
| national claim, and now at the close of lS7
| we see around us ample reason to be hope
full of the ultimate triumph of the priuci-
pie of peoples right to be governed by
laws enacted by themselves,and themselves
alone. at first there were found many to
sheer at the movement because it was not
noisy or revolutionary but when at every
election in Ireland the voters gave the
most convincing proofs of the reality of the
demand, and of Ireland's determination to
persist in it, neither terrified by the frowns
of coercive legislation, nor cajolel by the
smiles of political corruption, men began
to feel that it could not be extinguished.
And so we find that, with the exception of
MIR. Gladstone's ill-advised jokes at Aber-
deem respecting the Irish fisheries, England
has of late entered into steady argument
on the subject, and has thus recognized the
refused at first to give any attention to the
demand of the great majority of the Irish
people. Even the Times came down from
its stills and condescended to look upon
the advocates of Home Rule as people to
whom a hearing must be given. 1t is ad-
mltted that there is cause for great dissat-
isfaction at the present awkward and cum
brous legislative machinery which is SO
rapidly getting "out of gear' that even the
cleverest political engineers must fail to
keep it in working order. The Meath,
Wcstmeath, and Limerick elections are
now shown to have been not mere pass
ing enthusiasm, but the outspeaking of a
nations fixed resolve. Galway will tell
the same tale as soon as Mr.. Gladstone
ventures on the hazardous experiment of
giving the support of a Wing administra-
ton to the Wing and Tory landlords of that
county in their puny efforts to oppose the
will OF the people, headed by the iuustri-
Gus Archbishop of Tuam, the great cham
pion of the rights of Ireland. Even while
we write there is IL possibility of an early
election for the Kings county, but we
think that Mr.. Gladstone will think twice
before he runs the risk of adding another
to the long catalogue of electoral disasters
with which his administration has been
already SO signally marked. Some people
(not hostile to Ireiand) have lately stated
that they see danger in Home Rule, and
tells us that it is anti-Catholic and revo-
lntionary. Now, as to the first point, it is
strange that the most hot-headed of our
opponents are constantly dining into orr
ears the silly objection that Home Rule
means Rome Rule, that the Pope and the
College of Cardinals are secretly at the
bottom of it all, and that the abstention of
Cardinal Cullen from open action in the
cause is Il mere sham. The two opposites
may very we'll be allowed to destroy each
other. The fact is that the Home Rule
movement cd
any religious question. 1t is the embodi-
ment OF a noble national aspiration which
aims at winning the freedom of all Irish
men, without the distinction of creed, from
the thraldom which has long been the
fruitful source of countless evils to their
common country. There is no instance on
record of true patriotism being opposed to
religion. Who will venture to say that
O'Connell, who begged that his epitaph
might be, "He lived aud died Repeater"
was not good Catholic? Did not the
Sovereign Pontiff Plus IN. proclaim him to
be "the great Christian hero ~ They widely
err who connect fidelity to fatherland with
treason to the faith. The best of men are
those who are faithful to both. AS to
Home Rule being revolutionary, it is
quite the opposite. Nothing be less
revolutionary than n measure which tends
to allay national discomfort, and calm
those passions which lead to popular tu-
mults. The glorious band of gifted men
Grattan, Plunkett, Curran, and others
who fought with sCch determination against
the lll-omened union in 1900 were stern
opponents of violent measures. In latter
times who were the men who gave O'Con-
nell most active support in his efforts to
win Homo Rules They were the bishops
and priests of the Catholic Church, the
true friends of social order. We notice
that the question has been making pro-
gress rot only IN England but in Scotland
a short time ago one of the leading pro-
tessors of Il Scottish university delivered
an address in favor of Home Rule for
Scotland, and his remarks elected great
deal of appreciation. Immense meetings
approving the movement have been held
in London, Liverpool, Manchester and
Glasgow.-LonlOn EnirerSe.
TIE DERRY CELEBRATIONS
AS we predicted, the promised "celcbra-
tons" by the Derry "Boys' of the anniver-
sary of the shutting of the gates, resulted
in Il most miserable tiasco. The firm atti-
tude assumed by the Catholic and Liberal
party, representing the feeling of the peace