The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-20

this sort of criticism. They dream of moth
ing OF the kind. There is another way
of looking at the Home Rule party auS
the Home Rule QUESTION in the Honse o.
Commons.
| Six hundred men can indeed very essilv
| vote down sixty, and make short work OF
! their opposition ALWAYS supposinp these
| latter to be units from pIaces vida anart
representing scattered interests or snec.
lative opinions. The House of Commons
deals every wear, session after sessiop,
with several such sixties and seventies
and eighties and nineties. Bat it would he
a wOefnl apology for =. statesmanshin,'to re-
gard the Home Rule sixtv in Ills nab, In
their case the government have to do. moi
with sixty of their own general body OF
British mem bers, but with the Irish repre-
sentation. The question ia not with siytv
members of the Houae. but with TreLan5
In any crisis of the empire. as the Eng,ish
Chancellor of the Excheoner ssid r.centlv
about the British representatives on tho
Suez Canal Board, :" their votes would he
a1eighcd, not counted"
Tne purpose of the Home Rolers. for the
present at all events. ia much less With the
House of Commons than with the country
thew operate on the omen conntrv thronyL
that house, Thev want to oat ZEALAND ipf n
their hands: and even already thew b.va
very substantially done so. they want to
CONVINCE and conciliate and enlist the Enc
Nah democracy; aud thew have verv Iaroefsv
succeeded, With this kew 10 ,heir move,
ments. the supreme ability and visdon,
which thew have disnlayed will ha hotter re-
cognized They have taken the whole of tha
public affairs Of ireland into their charga
They have taken every nuhlic intarast in tha
country under their nrotection, Whoavar
wants ANYTHING done or attended to. wheth.
ar he he Catholic Protast,nt mr. Lissa-tar
now looks TO the Home Rnlers and ~
them alone. Ma tina hno,,t,st Doaa.,+ -,
the land Int fecls that il a na+ry villa.
tyrapt has wronped him. the frisI Marty n
the House of Con,mons will "kanyy tho
reasoD whv.n Thew havn s.iz.b rrnr
every suh ieet deenlv atf.c,ing tn, pen;,In
as a whole. or imnortant clas.ea a1nnnr
them. and showered hiIIs 9aaIinr w;tS
these snhiects on tha ,ah1a of tha unnsn
of Commons The tiistractad pramiar
knows what ia hanootL eli this 80 da
tects the master. hand of Isaac 'Rntt in
this deem strategv. These ara NOT shorn
hills n,eralr to tsLra mn +ir,a Th., 49,,
genuine bills. ably and carefnl,v drawn
and every one of them 6aaiino VIII
q really imnnrtant and nressinc me- +ar CO.
ireland Erarv ona.of thon, rio - ST.
thew ara naa~iy oil sncb h;iIa 90 onr Jr;sb
Parliament wonId nass same of the anh
iects (such IA the =" Fisherias RiII ~ ara
nonnlar with rerv neariy oil niosoas i;
ireland :. then there are the I1niyars;tS
Education Rill. the I,and-Tanpre R;u ths
Grand Jury BiIl' the Mnnicinai PriviI , one
Bill. the FRANCHISE RilI thu Raeistratfon
Bill besif]es a hostof otbers SnSnosa tho
sovernment pire wav. md scrept on 1ao
there is a shout Of triumnb in Ireland
:. The Home Rrlers hare fnrced thair
hand ~ and a cry Of dismavan race from
the irreconci,ahie Oranaemen -. Tf'a GOV
eminent have snccum5ed to the Jrsnt.!r
S,nnos., tIav r.siet an5 voto ~, tI,a lii
1na,ters are worse. The Iri.h neoI,Ie ,rs
inflsmed. and even ministeriaijsts snIk and
saw Is This ia had noIicv ire nIa,ino tha
Home RrIe pamen Snnn1se ,'' ara,n M
DisraeIi ado1ts a mi6IIa cnnIsa I'D s.xs
8. This is an excellent bin in NAM res meets
but really we have not time To consjSer it.
This YEAR, A louder sbont than aver nreets
such a abatement. "There ia no room for
Irish business. Then let us transact it here
at home"
II ia a matter of notoriatv that tbare 10
prowin0 uu among English men within and
witbouS the House az Commons a feeling
That, even ap.rt from ali nolticaI consiJer7
.tiops. somethin0 muet be- done tn iirhten
the work, and remit to other assemblies a