The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-12-25
HONE RUE FOR IRELAND.


There appears to be little doubt that
Mr.. Gladstone is prepared to submit a
comprehensive Home Rule plan for Ire
land, even IL the announcement of the
details of his scheme as described in the
cable reports should prove premature.
The absuIdity of the prejudice against
permitting Ireland to manage her own
local affairs has been made more appa-
rent than ever by the foolish Iavings OF
the English press about the result of the
elections and the power held over the
new Parliament by Mr.. Parnell. and II
is natural that the Liberals, who are
more progressive and better disposed to
consider the poople's rights than the
Conservatives, should be the first to ac-
cept the inevitable.
Home Rule must come. The only
question is. From which side will it
come There is nothing in the scheme
attributed to Mr.. Gladstone that ought
to be Objectionable to England. An
Irish Parliament would, of course. be a
fundamental necessity of Home Rule ;
but of what value would a Parliament
be if the Imperial authority held a veto
over its acts? Imagine the Legisla-
ture of New York or any other Amerl-
can State being subject to the veto of
the President.
If Home Rule is given to Ireland at
all it must be honest Home Rule, by
which the people of Ireland in their own
way and through their own representa-
tives may regulate all their home af-
fairs, and especially their own police.
If the Imperial authority should control
the police any preteEse of Home Rule
in Ireland would be sham. Our own
Southern States had a taste of such a
policy when ruled by Federal bayoDets,
which changed home rule into carpet
bag rule.
ireland will succeed because her claim
is Just. It is constitutional and not rev.
olutionary. 1t asks not concessions
but consistency. 1t seeks no more for
one part of the United Kingdom than
another part enjoys. What would Eng
lishmen think if all their local affairs,
including their police, were ruled from
Ireland Ought they not to consider
what Irishmen must feel when they
have no local rights, but are ruled who'll
lY from England
Parnell is the Deak of Ireland. Ire
land is England's Hungary. And the
similitude will be borne out by the re-
suit. Deak devoted himself to resisting
the encroachments of the Central Gov
ernment at Vienna on the rights of his
country, and to removing those abuses
which for years had been a blight and
curse TO a naturally great, patriotic
and progressive people. Parnell is de-
voting himself to freeing Ireland from
oppression and injustice that have drag
ged her backward while the world has
been advancing, and have turned the
lTrVh hnn nrf o. hrn fNw7 Nd lon
altv of bright, brave and GENIAL peo-
pie into mOroseness and revengefulness.
Revolution did not enter into Deak IS
plans. II does not enter into Parnell's IS
plans. But revolution came in Hunga.
ry i'll 1S4S and wrested from the Govern
ment the laws of 1S4S, which conceded
every important demand Deak bad ever
made. The bad faith OF Austria after
| wards sought tC nuliify those laws,
| and it was not until after the disastrous
( battle of SadOwa that Francis Joseph
was prepared to submit to the Just de-
mands Deak b d always insisted upon.
ard the resuls was the present dualistic
system of the AustrO-Hungarian mon.
archy.
What is the consequence ? While
| formerly a German wassnot tolerated in
| Hungary, TO day he is treated as cOur-
| IeOusIy as person of any other nation
/ ality, and while the Emperor and En-.
| press of Austria are not thought of the
the King and Queen of Hungary receive
| the enthusiastic recognition of the pee.
| pie.
Parnell, the Irish Deak, will secure
| Home Rule for his country, let US hope
/ without blOOdshed, and before long who
| knows but an Englishman will be a:
| welcome in Limerick as he is Middle
| sex, while the people of Kilkenny will
| shout themselves hOarse in honor oi
/ the Queen of Ireland
Only the other day Prince Bismarck
| and the Emperor William stood stoutly
/ up for Home Rule by denying the right
! of the German Reichstag to interpeIiate
| Prussia on the subject of the exclusion
| of the POles-that being a matter oil
Prussian Home Rule to be acted on by
| the Prussian Landtag alone.
Home Rule exists in Germany. il
Austria, in the United States and ir
England. Why should it not be applied
to Ireland ?-N. Y. World.