The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-01-21
: THE HOME RULE BILL.

Nothing very definite has yet been re-
vealed by the Gladstone cabinet respects
Ing the salient points in the Home Rule
bill Many conjectures have been haz-
arded regarding it's scope and provisions,
but the friends and foes of the measure
must remain in doubt until the bill is in
troduced by Gladstone early next month.
One thing is certain, however, and that
Is that the venerable statesman will give
Ireland the best Home Rule bill that
can piss through the House Of Com.
mons. Gladstone is buckling on his
armor and will be ready to meet the op-
position with solid phalanx Of Liberals
and Irish Nationalists at his back. The
other day he summone d Justin McC earthly
to impress upon him the imperitive nee1
OF a regular attendance Of the Irish
members during the approaching session.
The Grand Old Man" held that it is
vitality important that every Irish mem
Der should be in his seat, as any decrease
in their attendance may be interpreted
as Indifference to Home Rule and may
produce bad moral effect Mr.. Nc
Carthy conceded in this opinion and in
formed him that every arrangement is
being made by his own colleagues to in
sure full and constant attendance, but
he was unable to speak for the nine Par
nellites OF which John Redmond is the
leader. It is stated on what appears to
be reliable authority that only four mem
bers of the Redmondite party can reside
regularly in London during the session.
They are William Redmond, Hayden,
Mcguire and Nolan. The other five can
only be present for specially important
divisions, as they are wholly dependent
on their professions for a livelihood.
-Four of them including John Redmond
are lawyers and they are kept busy in
the Irish courts.
Mr. Gladstone in his conference with
Justin MCCARTHY pointed out that it was
as important that Irish members should
attend during the transaction OF Engl sh
business as of business relating to Ire.
land, for the reason that if the ministry
had their majority materially reduced on
some English measure like the Egyptian
question, for instance, it would weaken
them ia the eyes of the country and in
directly affect the cause of Home Rule.
MIR. Mccarthy admitted that fact and
promised the unremitting attendance OF
the majority party of Irish Nationalist.
At this conference Mr.. Morley was pres
emit, and Judging from the tenor of an
editorial written by Mccarthy for the
Daily News some difference of opinion
arose between the Irish and Liberal lead
ers on the question of Ireland's contri-
button to the imperial exchequer after
the Irish parliament has been established
in Dublin, It is now generally admitted
that the Home Rule bill of 1886. which
was accepted by Mr.. Parnell, imposed
financial burdens on ireland out Of pro-
portion to her means and too heavy for
her to carry, and a change IN That partic-
ular is demanded in the new bill by the
Irish representatives. The difference in
the financial estimate for imperial pur-
poses between the Irish party and the
Liberal ministry is $12,500,000 per an
mum, an enormous sum which the Irish
party insists shall be partially or wholly
removed from off the shoulders of the
Irish tax payers. The problem is to re-
lieve Ireland of imperial taxation to an
extent necessary for the maintenance Of
self-goyernment, and at the same time
not to increase the taxes on the rest OF
the United Kingdom.
When the accursed legislative union
between Great Britain and Ireland was
carried by force, fraud and corruption in
1900 certain stipulations were made in
behalf of the crown and parliament of
England. One was that ireland, impov-
erished as she was then and has been
ever since, should not be made liable for
the British debt in existence prior to the
amalgamation of the two parliaments,
for the reason that Ireland had no voice
in it's contraction or application. This
pledge was shamlessly broken seventeen
years later. Ever since 1917 Ireland pays
more than s6,OOO,000 a year on the con-
solidated debt in express violation OF the
articles Of the legislative union. Mr..
Gladstone knows perfectly we'll that one
of the first acts Of q Dublin parliament
will be to cancel this outrageous burden
which has been imposed on Ireland in
violation Of solemn international COM
pact. Besides taxing Ireland for the
ante-union debt, she has been Obliged to
pay nearly $4,000 900 a year for the
army, 10000 OF which is stationed within
her own borders to keep her people in
subsection. The constabulary, whish il,
in fact, an army Of occupation number
ing 1900 men, equipped and authorized
to ply military rule over an nnarmed peo-
pie, require Sc, 600, 600 for their mainten-
ance from the Irish tax payers, and about
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