New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-25
THE IRISH CAUSE.
FTER THE ELECTIONS.
Mr. JUSTIN McARTHYs HOPEFUL VIEW
OF THE HOME RULE CAMPAIGN.
At WORST THE CAUSE IS DELAYED ONLY FEW
yEARs-NEED OF UNITY AND HARMONY
AMONG FRESHMEN IN IRELAND.


AMONG FRESHMEN IN IRELAND.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
CT. "rJow stands the Irish cause?" am asked
again and again by friends who are not Irish
hut who are thoroughly sympathetic. nave to
answer that the Irish cause stands exactly where
4, dd-so far az the convictions and the resolves
~ the Irish people at h )me and abroad are con
cerned We have had, OF course severe de-
feat-at least. our allies have had, ana We suner
Nth them. Well, we should have gained IL they
had won and 50 we must take our partnership
IN defeat as we should have claimed 1t and got
:, ,n victory. We shall have some time to wait
before we get Home Rul" But we can wait.
NJ &. u ouite and absolutely certain that we
r,ov have 70 wait even so long as for the return
90 noyer Of a strong Liberal Government The
rorac NAV come to find that they had better
uake sone terms with the inevitable and ges
tho benefit Of the arrangement. IL tnere were
now a Disraeli among them they would prooaoy
be soon educated up to this point we KNOW
what DisraeIi did with regard 10 Gadstones
Reform bill OF 1866. BY the help OF Liberal Sc
cession Disraeli threw out the bill and the Gov
arnment and came back to Office Then ne De-
Thought himself that a popular Suffrage was un-
ayoidable-was merely question OF uHe-ahd
M heyan 10 ask himself why the Tories should
mt
tape He went 10 work: he educated his
nortv" he told all the world Of the fact later on.
ord tho nhrase is his owl: he brought In the
gary, next session vag:c and poor reform bill.
d ho allowed the Radicals in the House OF
Commons 70 hammer IL into a very liberal ana
nonuar reform bill. know myself what hap
nened under a Tory Government at the time OF
the negotiations with Mr. Parneh "hich were
invited by the late Lord Carnarvon' tnen Lord
Lieutenant OF Ireland. was In those negotia-
t,ons and know how near they came 70 PROM
ice Of Home Rule from the Tory Government
What the Tory statesmen tried to DO before they
may succeed in doing later on.
Rut Il Is not on such chance-on such pos
siblty-that | would build my hopes Let the
rores remain Tories as long they will; they
cannot prevent the political world from moving.
And even Tories feel the movement. But OF
course the great solid strength OF Ireland IS IN
herself and her own cause: IN the teachings OK
history: in the lessons OF experience There Is
not so far as know, any people in the WORD
who are so nearly unanimous on any political
question whatever as the Irish people are on the
subject of Home Rule. In England We navy
MANY distracting questions OF controversy which
are constantly crossing and entangling eacn other
and dividing the public attention In the most per-
plexed and unexpected fashion. The great COLI
lapse Of the Liberal party in England al 'he ia'e
elections was due TO all manner OF cohnicuns
inHuences-the Local Veto bill dragging here, the
Independent Labor party pulling there tne
Liberal financial system making enemies IN one
direction, the Home Rule question making
enemies in another But in Ireland the wnoie
battle was fought on the question OF FOR ana
against Home Rule. The land question Is 70
Irishmen a subject of the highest importance.
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Irish public now feel we'll convinced that any
Government coming in. Tory or Liberal VIII nave
to deal with the settlement of this Irish land
tenure system Therefore the fight was for or
against Home Rule. See what happened In ire
land In Scotland and in Wales things went
not so we'll as might have been expected with the
Liberal party In England herself the over
throw of the Liberals was something disastrous.
But in Ireland Home Rule kept all its former
places and captured two seats from the Ulster
Tories We have recaptured the historic CITY OK
Derry--for generations the fortress OF Ulster
Orangeism. l personally rejoice In the recap
ture of Derry City. which ii was my singular
good luck at one time to win for the Nationalist
cause and which my friend Mr.. Nesey Knox.
has now after three years recovered. Wen, my
contention Is that when We thus have the vast
majority Of one people-of one nationahty-a'
set IN laVCr or d certain pTlnclpIe VI sO'ei"'""
that principle is sure to be established In the
end The English Liberal party are our sincere
and untirng friends. but we Go not rest our hopes
merely on the friendship Of any English party.
We rest them on the justice OF our cause and the
unalterable tenacity of our purpose
admit should be the last man 10 deny
that have suffered much by our own do
nestle quarrels / say should be the last man
to deny this, because have had to make AGAIN
and again public reo,onstrance against the tend
ency Of some of my countrymen to get into lite
side-battles of their own when ought all 10 %
fighting the common enemy. | have deplored
this; l have deeply regretted the bitter necessity
Of having 10 take account of 1t and 10 make puo'
lie appeal and protest against it. But such con-
troversies can at the worst only obstruct ana
delay the success of great national CAUSE
They cannot annihilate II; the country itself
will not allow them to anninilate II. AT the very
worst. and II We in this hodr are too hot-tem'
pered and too full OF private and personal quar-
rels and anger to be able to make the best OK
our position. the country will seek and will find
before long a generation of Irishmen better
gifted with that self-restrant aud that discipline
which are needed for success In any manner OF
battle. After all. very vices are the common
and. one might say. the inevitable vices OF long,
protracted servitude. In all manner OF histories
We read that the tendency OF the galey-slaves
was to fight among themselves. Until the otne'
day-one might almost put 1t so-the irlsnmsn
was but the galley-slave Of Englands Imperial
! Government Now. indeed IL is not so: has no'
been so since Mr.. Gladstone came back into
power in 1868 and turned his attention to the
condition OF Ireland But we have perhaps nor
even yet quite shaken on the evil habits OF our
galley-slave days. and allow ourselves 10
| quarrel with comrades. This Will not last.
Ireland will not allow 1t to last; we may trust
to Ireland for that. Adverse conditions or TINS
x i,da IL doin Rla Us