The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-07

very prevalent in England and Scotland among
the townspeople, and 1t Is said to be on the
increase.
After the suppression of Fenianism by force
of arms and criminal prosecutions, Ireland had
no politics for few years. Lately, however, .
new political organization has been formed,
under the name of Home Rulers.
The platform proposes partial repeal of the
act of Union of 1901, and establishment of an
Icsh Parliament in Dublin, composed Of Lords
aud Commons, whose jurisdiction shall extend
the model of the State government in America.
This scheme is being advocated by the Catho-
lilo newspapers in Ireland, and opposed by the
Protestant papers. So far as could learn, all
the Protestant part of the population opposed
the new programme. They, being weak
minority, are afraid to trust the local govern
they elect twenty-five or thirty of the 100
mem bers of the House of Commons, will resist
it to the bitter end. PARTIES in Ireland nearly
always are formed on the dividing line of Ca
The British press and politicians give no
countenance to the proposed Irish Parliament
and Home Rule scheme. They argue that there
is nothing that an Irish Parliament could
legally do which the National Parliament will
refuse to do for Irish interests-and ask the
Home Rule leaders what legislation or laws
Ireland now needs or DESIRES The dilemma of
the Home Rulers is that they dare not svow
their real purpose viz :Irish independence of
Great Britain.
Az the Irish peers are nothing but English
noblemen, and would veto everything done by
an Irish House of Commons, the London Tines
wants to know how the Home Rulers could
carry any measures distasteful to them OF op-
posed to their interests; aud, if matters were
carried to extremes, the Times asks whether
the peers would not appeal to the British Gov
eminent for support; and thinks, after q brief
and stormy experiment, the whole thing would
surely end with abolition of the Irish Parlia-
ment, and the resumption of control by the
British Government. In tho discussion it ex-
plains that neither side state au that Ii on
their Finds. The Home Rulers, in their hearts,
want to cut loose from the British Government
and break up landlord monopoly, but dare not
avow it. On the other hand, the English poll
ticians know that these are the ultimate pur.
poses of the Home Rulers, but it is not pru-
dent to charge it upon them, because they can
not prove it. Thus the matter stands at pres
emit. The Home Rule orators continue to hold
mass meetings, pass resolutions, and agitate,
platform the extent and boundaries of Home
Rule Jurisdiction, or defining the powers OF
the proposed Irish Parliament. Meanwhile the
Catholic bishops and clergy are openly giving
in their adhesion to the Home Rule party, and
| taking the stump for it; and this alarms the
Protestants of Ireland, and arrays them in
| solid pbaIanx bitterly against it. The Orange
lodges say that Home Rule would lead to Pro-
testant e1trpation, unless put down by the
British Government; and so matters stand In
this unhappy country. Torn by faction and
| sectarian animosities, and ground into the
dust by the extortions of alien land-monopo
| lists, whose title is derived from confscation
and maintained by British army and navy
| and whose wrongful rents are enforced an6
! collected at the point of the bayonet. j. M