The morning call., 1893-09-08
HOME RULE.
1t Looks to the Removal of Religious
Disability.

Editor Morning Call: Now that the home
rule bill has come out OF the erueible OF the
committee of the whole, has passed the third
reading and will soon meet its fate at he hands
OF the noble and immaculate Lords, wish 10
bring before the public notice at this stage OF
the proceedings SUB section 1 OF clause "a of
the pre-amended bill. This subsection looks
to the removal of the religious disability affect
Ing the Viceroyalty in Ireland.
While three-fOurihs of the Inhabitants of
Ireland are Rom Catholics, yet Catholics
have been debarred by law from holding the
office of Lord Lieutenant and it has been filed
fO- centuries by a Protestant. And If it hap
pened that the VicerOy In power was just and
Wel-disposed to The Catholics OF the island lie
was hurr1edly recalled to London. A notable
instance is that OF Earl FiIz- William. On his
assumption OF office iO Dublin he held out the
owe branch 10 an exaSperated people and set
ABOUT the improvement; OF their deplOra0le con-
dition, Dut his recall was soon issued from ST.
James Palace, and in his place was sent Earl
Camden, who waved the Orange lily, and
whose motto was That of Cromwell: mo quar-
ters to the lpiStS."
irish Catholics throughout the world are
grateful TO Mr.. Gladstone for relieving them Of
the lnt0erable burden of supporting The Protes-
tant Church by the act of disest bliShmeut, ana
they are doubly grateful for his efforts TO re-
move the odiOuS disability affecting the Vice.
royalty. Should be succeed in these efforts he
VIII enlarge and extend the boon of Catholic
emancipation which OConnell wrung from the
British Government. and which lifted TO a GER
lam height his cOrellgiOnlsIs from de social
anc religious degradation. | say TO certain
height, for the disabilities and stigmas placed
upon Irish Catholics i'll their own country by
prosecuting Protestant Government have
fectS as original sin,
he great orator and statesman, Burke, was
not lndulglng IN noisy rhetoric or tambourine
eIOquence when he declared that 1.-The code
against the Catholics is machine as we'll fitted
for the degradation of a people and the de-
basement In them OF human nature it~elf as
4 tIna tod oF
man."
AND we need not go to the immediate scene
OF operation OF this code" 10 witness this
"degr adation" and "debasement," for they are
both garingly visible within the confines of our
own republic. Nay, il we enter any State of
the Union need not leave il to find Irish
Catholics degraded In manhood and debased in
human nature. am far from maintaining that
all Irish Catholics in the Union are inferior TO
their coreiigiOnists of other natiOualities or to
their seetaT1an or non-srctarian brethren, for
many OF them possess nobility OF character
true manhood and genuine spirit of independ-
ence; but here are many others In whom the
execrable "code" has produced all tile evil re-
suits intended by its framers
Al this solemn moment in Ireland's exist
ence, when she is rising from her PROSTATE pO-
sitiOn and turning her eyes toward that place
among he nations that was so ardenty desired
Tor by Robert Emmett, wish to see all her sons
ana daught rs aud their children in every
CLINE resolving to rise TO that moral plane TO
which they are directed by Cod their religion
and their nationality. And they can reach that
religious dupe>, by an unbreakable unity
among themselves and by asserting and Insist
Ing upon their rights in every sphere
The removal of the religious disa bllity from
the ONCE OF Lord Lieutenant will help TO erase
from The browS Of Irish Catholics the brand of
incOmpetency and Inferiority which they have
borne 80 long, and TO place them on an equality
with PrOtestants, Jews, agnostcs and infdels.
IL VIII tear Gown from the entrance 10 the
vice'tegal lodge In Phoenix Park The notice
that is equally obnoxious aud insulting as the
one thai was posted upon the walls of BandOn.
The meanest urchln among Us would feel In
suited II told that he must not aSpir- to be
President of this Tepublic, even though his
parents be foreigners, and yet /. would have
been nothing short of treason for such re-
nOwned men as Daniel O'COnuelI, A. NJ. Sul-
Vanand Sir Charles Russell TO have aspired TO
be Viceroy In the land OF their ancestors for
generations.
But while the hom2-rule bill contemplates the
opening OF the office of Lords Lieutenant to
Catholics as well as ProtestantS the Irish peo-
pie should always oppose the appoiptment
thereto of an English Catholic no matter what
his parentage. Among the greatest enemies of
ireland today are the NoTfOlk<. the ErringtOns
and The NaushanS. Not only are they fighting
tooth and nail against Justice in the form of
home rule being done TO enslaved and mariyred
ireland, put they are interfering In the affairs
OF her church. Ii is, however, gratifying 20
know that in The political arena they are met
by the brave and indOmitable irish national
party, and in the religious arena by Arch
bishops Walsh and Croke-two of the most
formid bic and be>t-discipllned gladiators that
evrr drew sword or lance.
When the Irish people obtain the boon of
home rule for which they have so long strug-
gIed, tney must see TO 1t that no enemy
OF thelr race or country ever fill the
Important office of VicerOv They must
strongly protest against the appointment
thereto OF any Orangeman, English Catholic or
Scotch lrishman. In 1900 they were robbed of
their legislative independence during the in.
cumbeney of Lord Castereagh. and. to a great
extent through his treachery, bribery aud cor
rupfion; and If they wish TO prevent the repetl-
tlon OF such a lamentable episode in history,
they must ever sleeplessly guard their national
blessings, for "eternal vigllanceSis the price of
liberty" L. CARAHER.
Mission San Jose. September 5. 1898.
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