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the Tory party. He has confessed that
what he apprehe bends from Home Rnle
is NOT that we will demand separation
from England. but that we will teach
the English Democracy how to fight the
battle as we have fought jt[cheers1
the battle Of the workers against the
idlers [cheers] and how to emancipate
the downtrodden masses from the
tyranny OF the classes. In q speech q
couple OF weeks ago to one Of the Lon
don companies, Mr., Balfour admitted
that what he apprehended from the
triumph of Home Rule was not the dis
memberment Of the empire. but was
that every interest in England would
be harassed, that is to say, that every
| Tory interest ard privilege in England
would find itself overhauled, and that
every abuse and every nest Of aristo:
cratic corruption in England would be
dragged into the light by the strong
hand of reform. That is most un-:
fortunate admission, because it reveals
the true secret Of Tory opposition to
Home Rule. Mr.. Balfour has let the
cat out of the bag. He has con-
fessed that the CRY of dismemberment
of the empire, on which the Torres car
ried the country at the last general
election, was simply an insincere and
hollow electioneering dodge and sham.
He has confessed that the Tory leaders
do not believe In it. He has admitted
that what they are apDrehenslve Of IS
not separation in Ireland, but demo-
cracY in England. He has confessed
that what the Tory party dread is that
q Parliament which will do Justice to-
Ireland will not stop there. but will 20
further and do justice to England, aud
that it will sweep on with those great
reforms which will bring lives of hap
piness to weary millions of the English
people which it is the mission Of the
Tory party to obstruct. Iconfess sus-
pect that Mr.. Balfour is perfectly IN the
right. suspect that Home Rule for Ire.
land will not be the only great or benig
nant measure that the next Parliament
will bring forth, and that q united
Liberal aud Nationalist majority will
insist upon. [Cheers.] It is certainly
a peculiar way of appealing to the Eng.
lish masses to vote against Home Rule,
to tell them that Home Rule will be the
stepping stone to great and boundless
reforms for themselves. What want
to point out is that that old cry Of sep
aration and of ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the
empire is now confessed by Mr.. Bal
tours own mouth to be all mere fudge
and claptrap; that what is making them
apprehensive j. not that there Is any
danger of the union between England
and Ireland. and that the English peo-
pie and the Irish people are becoming
only too united, only too close friends
and allies for the comfort of the Tory
squrrearchy. What they apprehend is
not that we in ireland will 20 prosecut-
ing Professionals or setting up an Irish
republic, but that We will come over to
help YOU, and that the democracy will
learn from the example of Ireland what
q resolute organization and q deter
mined party can do to overthrow those
hoary old fortresses Of feudal oppression
which shut out the light of human hap
piness from millions of humble homes
In Great Britain. as we'll as in Come.
mara or Donegal. [Cheers