The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-27
The Antl-AIonopo1ist.

uprising made way for post-office
reform, cornlaw reform, and a number
Of small reforms. including large
one-the ballot, Gladstone's Land and
DisestabHshment laws were the
offspring of Fenianism, for, whilst
pushing those measures through,
Gladstone admitted that he did not
like them. Home Rule also is an
Otfshoot of Fenianism, though it is
not by any means what the Irish
Nationalist demand. In starting it
in 1873 Mr.. Butt said: 'sGive me
sixty Home Rulers and / will win for
YOU county boards, an improved land
bill, and educational and several other
changes for the better.'' Ireland
returned the number he asked for.
And with this force of sixty Home
Rulers they went to Parliament, and
for four sessions those bills and
various of like nature had been
presented and urged, and with one
insignificant exception, every one of
them has been rejected-the most
reasonable and simple as we'll as the
most radical and extreme. There is
scarcely an English newspaper, he
says, but sneers at MI. Biggar
because he is merchant. This
rouses not only the political but the
personal hostility of the Irish people.
Then comes the insulting fact that
only an English nobleman can be the
mimic king in Ireland and an English
adventurer his chief secretary. Both
Mr.. CoWen says, are as Wellacquainted
with Ireland and her requirements as
they are with the Transvaal on Daho-
mey. Mr.. CoWen considers that the
Home Rule party, Butt and PANEL
and all of them, will return to the next
Parliament strengthened and united.
But he dose not seem to perceive that
if they do, and if they continue in the
prescribed path, they will simply lose
time arguing with men that never,
never will be convinced. If, as he
very truly says, fear is the only
thing the majority will yield to, then
every word spoken-every day or year
spent in talking at them in the House
of Commons, is a day and a year, or
twenty days and twenty years of time
gained by the English poWer-of time
lost by the people of Ireland-time
unretrievably lost; never, never to be
recovered. We especially desire to
logical conclusion from his own
premises. We do so because Mr..
Cowen has a soul of his own, and
dares to speak out what he thinks.
His influence with the Democracy of
England is unbounded. AS the fore
most friend of Ireland that is returned
by any English constituency, he stands
forth with a distinction all his own,
His voice, therefore. would be eagerly
listened to. and his thoughts DELHI
erately weighed by the Irish people.
SO peculiar is his position and char
acter that we believe there is only one
man in Ireland more capable of
commanding the attentlon,at least, of
the whole Irish people, and that man
is Archbishop MacHale-only that
one man more potent to turn the
thought of Ireland TO the great subject
of land and liberty and industry and
security and home and happiness.
And that second to that great man is
Joseph Cowen. NJ. p. for Newcastle
on-Tyne.
Ireland has many OF her own sons
equal in every respect to Mr.. Cowen.
1t is the peculiar position of Mr..
Cowen that would pre-eminently
challenge the attention and rouse the
thought of the whole Irish people. In
our Judgment, the facts he enumerates
make out the case in full. 1t is, indeed
an easily worked and conclusive prob
lem: Given nothing Of value in four
years to find the result in twenty
years. y bright prospect. We are
especially DESTROYS of knowing what
the Member for Newcastle-on- Tyne
thinks Of it--Irish World