The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-04-27

i fore us will be men and women OF ths
broadcast culture. Sel1shhess and greco
must; not succeed, culture and enlighten
ment must prevail.
STILL THEY FIGHT.
Still the Irish Parliamentarian:
Wrangle and the friends OF Ireland
throughout, the world wonder at the stu
Ipidity and unpatriotic acts of Ireland
REPRESENTATIVES In Parliament. We arr
forced to confess that we believe the
manner of acquiring Home Rule is o.
more Importance to the Wranglers thar
the thing itself. Men, not principles
seem uppernlost in the minds of the
Irish members. The latest excitement il
1.-THE change of Mr.. SWeetman from the an
ParnelIite to the Parnellite ranks. Tht
reasons he gives for the change of from
are those advanced by the Parnellite
party. He maintains that the connec,
ltion between the Liberal party and the
Nice artyites is a betrayal of the Irish
cause Just how this is a betrayal is dit.
! ficult to understand. For manyayears
Parnell and his party labored hard t.
\ obtain the cooperation of the Liberal
party. When at length Mr. Gladstone
was converted to the Home Rule theory
\ it was at the expense Of the loss of d
large part of his Liberal supporters. In
return for that loss he naturally expected
the support of the united Irish party. Nc
sooner did Mr. Gladstone accept the diff.
fcult task Of securing Home Rule than
discomfort became manifest among the
Irish mehers. just as soon as there was
hope of realizing the desire of century
Ireland with its characteristic ill fate
commenced to jeopardize its own cause
The quarrel in the Irish party is now no
nearer q settlement than 1t was in 1890
| The action of Mr.. Sweetman is nothing
more than can be expected from any OF
the leaders. Because Lord Rosebery has
not been continually harping over Home
Rule, although no sane man believes that
it would do any good at present .. Mr.
Sweetman argues that it would be better
to turn the government over to the pro-
nounced enemies of Ireland. In appeal
ing to the electors OF East Wicklow
he says:
tsYou will, therefore, now have an op-
portunity of electing a member in my
place, if you SO desire, to continue walking
through the Government lobbies to keep
Lord Rosebery in office while doing
onthing for Ireland, which work I re-
fuse to do any longer; or to elect a man
who will do his best to force every Gov
eminent that may be in power to put
Irish measures before all British meas
ures, until we have been granted our rn-
doubted right of self-goyernment, and
thus you will show the public that Ire
land is anxious to have done with mere
fine speech making and sham-battles In
the House of commons, and refuses to
allow Home Rule to be she1ved by any
Party that the Irish members keep in
Office
It is not easy to understand the reas-
oning of Mr.. Sweetman. The Liberal
party has for the past ten years kept the
Home Rule question to the front while
the Conservatives have always been in
favor Of shelving it permanently. Yet
Mr.. Swee.man is not in favor ef support
ing the Liberals because after the de-
feat in the Lords of the Home rule meas
ure, they have turnei aside temporarily
totransact other business and to make
it possible to pass favor legislation in
the future. The Liberals have not
shelved the issue permanently and ev-
erybody knows it. 1t is unreasonable
to. expect that a Home Rule measure
should be kept constantly before the
Commons to the exclusion of all other
business. No one would maintain it to
be the duty of a Democratic House to
keep passing a measure which ss soon
as passed would bs sure to be beaten in
the Senate. Yet this il what MIR. Sweet
man asks. Perhaps Mr.. Sweetman did
not gain the conddanee of the Liberal
leaders to the same extent as N,essrs.
Dillon, Mccarthy and Sexton. Il IL pos
sible after ali that the patriotism Of the
gentleman is affected somewhat by per-
sonal ambition. .