The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-06-02
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and alliance of all the Catholics of Ire
land. (Hear! hearty And if, at this mo-
ment, before Home Rule is granted, the
Irish Home Rulers are already differing
with themselves on certain points, does
that not carry weight and substance to
the arguments that we have always
maintained, that, when Home Rule came,
there would not be schism of Catholic
against Protestant, but that parties
would be severed in their ordinary con-
stitutional fashion, and that Ireland
would be governed under Home Rule
body better, more intimately, but not
otherwise in different fashion to that
in which it is governed by the Parlia-
ment in L ndon. (Cheers.) Now come
to my point. If, then, the absence Of
crime and of sympathy with crime; if
there is no reasonable ground of danger
for the empire, or of Catholic combina-
ton against Protestan.ism-if, then, I
say, all these three dispersed bogy argu-
ments or the absence of those arguments
make Home Rule a safe concession to
Irish opinion in the matter, am not JUS
titled in saying, as have said more than
once, that we eball soon carry conviction
to the mind of the English people on
that question loud cheers) and that the
question of Home Rule will be settled
sooner or later, but sooner, rather than
later, as question of common sense by
common sense faculty of the English peo-
pie themselves. (Cheers.) Now, gentle
men, there is one further obstacle in the
way of Home Rule, which also offers g
further argument in it's favor. Perhsps
you will allow me, for the purpose of IL
Illustrating my argument. a very short
DEPRESSION. When you heard me read
the list Of measures we are proposing to
Parliament dare say some of you may
have asked yourselves, as the papers
have often asked us, and orators have
asked us, whether these measures were
likely to pass during the present session.
Well, I am bound to say that am not
sanguine as to all these measures pass
ing during during the present session,
and that depends upon the House of
Commons, and, therefore, I am not par
ticularly sanguine.
"Already the Tories and the dissenti-
ent press are beginning to say, How
sterile this session is, nothing comes of
it. This government can pass nothing
and when I know all the arts and appli-
ances they can make use of in order to
make this session sterile must frankly
say am not particularly sanguine of the
result. l do not accuse anybody of OBJ
struction (laughter) such an idea is re-
Voting to the legislative mind-but what
I do say is this, that there are rhetorical
arts which amount in their result come to
very much the same thing. believe 1t
to be the fact that people are getting
weary of this method of doing business.
The idea has been to s:igmatize Home
Rule as an act of treason, whereas it is
only an act of common sense. 1t is an
act of common sense, because you can
not, under your constitution, under your
popular and democratic constitution, for
long oppose reasonable and constitu-
tionar demands, put forward in reason
able and constitutional way. In the next
place, it is matter of common sense, be.
cause as long as the demand for Irish
Home Rule is unsatisfed, the block in
your Parliamentary business must neces-
sariIy continue, and it is an article of
common sense, because, with the abiding
belief in the Irish race throughout the
world that they have been, by some
means or another. diddled or cheated
out Of their own local legislature( cheers)
so long as that belief continues-and it
will continue until Home Rule comes
you have running sore in every colony,
you have enemies in every English
speaking state, and this great and cosmo-
politan faith not merely affects your for
eign relations, but destroys your empire
itself Cloud cheers.) If, then, gentlemen,
you want your business done, if, then,
you want to settle this Irish question, ii
you want to have united empire, if you
want to move toward that noble ideal,
which some of us have in our minds, of
the federation of the English-speaking
races (cheers), of a happier family COM
pact between the English-speaking peo-
pie. Home Rule you must have CHEERS.
Those are the main reasons, briefly
stated, which have led mo to the conclu-
sion for which have been so much cen
sured, that the English people, who love
liberty, who understand constitutional
forms, who are people of. common
sense, and who wish their business done,
will not be long before they feel that
Home Rule must be granted to Ireland