Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-13
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.


 It is hard for the American readers of Irish history to understand the present attitude of Protestant Ulster against home rule. In every parish, or other district of Ireland's Protestant north, committees are being formed, the mem- bers of which are pledged as follows:
 First-To unswerving loyalty to the throne.
 Second-To protest against any measure that would either cut them off from or interfere with their inheritance in the imperial legislature.
 Third-To declare their utter and un- changeable distrust of and hostility to an Irish legislative assembly, their de- termination to take no part in it's organ ization and proceedings, and passively to resist it's laws and it's taxation as hay ing no binding force on them.
 Fourth-To appeal to the nationalist leaders to desist from pressing a propo- | sal which must inevitably produce dis turbance and arrest the progress of the country, and to the English and Scotch I electorate to pause before committing the two islands to a struggle certain to be disastrous to the best interests of both.
 There is no doubt but that the people of Ulster, who may be termed it's non office holding portion, are in sympathy with the movement intended to procure home rule, or the management of Irish affairs by the people of Ireland. The office holding portion, however, which is both numerous and influential, looks upon home rule with a very different eye; looks upon it as depriving them of | many an easily earned dollar, and of many a chance to parade their insolent importance. Let us open the book of statistics in confirmation of what we state. Four million Catholics have only 700 magistrates; one million of Protest ants have $500 magistrates; that is to say, for every 5,714 Catholics there is one magistrate, in Catholic country, and for every 282 Protestants there is a magisterial representation. This is, no doubt, the reason why such men as Major Saunderson and the others of his cloth, look with disfavor upon a move ment which appears about to be con summated; an end long sought for, and struggled for by Irishmen, Pro- testant and Catholic alike; yea, more by Protestant than Catholic, as is proved by the long list of heroes and martys of Protestant persuasions. Why should the men of Ulster oppose or impede any movement which would rebound to the benefit of thetr country, with such illustrious examples of Protestant patriots before them as Robert Emmet Henry Grattan, Wolf Tone, the Sheares brothers, Bagenal Harvey, Lord Ed. ward Fitzgerald, John Mitchell, John Martin and Charles Stewart Parnell Are they of the present day greater, grander, more illustrious, more in. tellectual, or more loyal? Not at all, These qualities are not considerations. The true solution of the question is that they are execrable egotists, who prefer individual interest, place and social position, to their country's good and ad. vancement, and will sacrifice every vestige of principle for self greed and gain. But the march of civilization goes steadily on, and the day is not far distant when those miserable miscreants will be relegated to an accursed obliv. ion, from which no friend of humanity will ever help them to rise. Home rule for Ireland h lneyltable.
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