The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31
THE HOME RULE OBSTRUCTION"

It is not the construction" of bench
to lobby in that alien conclave which
disports itself in London that we here
refer to. 1t is TO the sidelong sob
struction'' which the Home Rule COM
edv presents to the onward march Of
the people of Ireland. Her march to
free homes; her march up out OF the
Egyptian bondage of the land thieves,
up to and into their own land; up to
their secure homes, surrounded by
fields of waving grain, and the glow
of laden orchards; up to the time and
condition when they can realize the
glowing picture drawn Of the days to
come:
"Fair plenty now resumes her golden reign,
The yellow fields thick wave with ripened
grain.
Joyous the SWANS renew their sultry tolls
And bear in triumph home the harvest s
wealthy spoiis"
I'm triumph home, not to thresh
it and winnow it, and carry it to the
market and transmute it into a tribute
to be paid to the accursed land thief.
No but to be carried to the mill and
ground and returned to Il new meal
chest for which they never had any
use before; making festival for the
hens and ducks, and all the feathered
Dependents that heretofore starved in
winter that the land thief might riot
in London or Paris, or wherever else
his master-the devil--might lead
him.
But the .wealty spoils'' must con-
tinue to go the old way till the Home
Rule comedy is played out, or till the
aroused people shall hiss it off the
stage Till then we must note its gy-
rations as matter Of vapid news and
irritating curiosity. This, then, is Il
glance at the last performance. Scene,
Dublin. Time, Tuesday, the 18th
inst.
Determined. Fiat an annual con-
ference be held of NJ. P.'s Of the
League and NJ. C.'s of the clubs. Mr..
Biggar threw in bombshell to the
| following purpose: That in case of a
war the Home Rule NJ. P.'s repudiate
England by retiring in a body from
the House. This got tangled into the
skirts of Mr.. Butt and nearly threw
him off his feet. In his alarm he
cried out that it would kill Irish na-
tionality--forgetting for the moment
that such thing does not exist to be
killed. Slightly sympathizing with
Mr.. Butt. it was agreed that discuss
ion on the subject should be deferred
till the occasion shall come. United
action was proposed under the lead OF
Mr.. Butt. and it was adopted, with
the rather limiting proviso that no
member should be bound to anything
to which he had not previously agreed
and that he is not to agree to any
mesure on which there has not been
| preconcerted agreement. The cable
report says the conference lasted for
eight hours, and terminated in divl-
sion and uproar. Mr.. Biggar's motion
was passed with "a very slight modi-
iication." Whereat Mr.. Butt would
not take the closing-up chair till his
! friend Mr.. Sullivan and others carried
| him into it with the use of u little
gentle compulsion. Thus we see that
the materials for an explosion are
there. Republican gunpowder and
the embers of Torryism cannot house
long together. Probably one-half the
the Leagues belongs to the rack rent.
ing governments: about the other halt
have new nation in their eye. They
will fall asunder by and by. or perhaps
they will fall which will DO
just rs we'll. Then, when that takes
place we'll havea straight road before
us. Till then we must keep spreading
the truth, and he ready to march OF
the Amalakites. Irish Uorid.