The Irish standard., 1895-09-07
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No. 'ssys lorl a fsaas 81 = =
IA lslthsr u1sad Nor slssE D.
raHk QuAaREls WILL sooa CEASE.


Rsdmonl,'s idea Of Foroo Not Generally
lnaulasd In BY Thouah 4 tu' .5s
Hon. justin Mccarthy writes The follow
4 ing Interesting letter to the New York
Tribune: .;
ftsSir: sEIow stands the Irish cause? 2 a.
am asked again and ngain by friends who
are not Irish, but who are thoroughly sy m
pathetic. l have to answer that the irish
\ cause stands exactly where it did tar
as the convictions and the resolves Of ths
Irish people at home and abroad are con-
cerned We have had, of course, a{seVere
defeat--at least, our allies have. mad, ana
we suffer with them. Well, we should
have gained If they had won, anu SO we
must take our partnership in defeat as va
should have claimed it and got 1T IN VIC
tory We shall have some time TO Waal
before we get Home Rule But we can
wait. Nor is it quite and absolutely GER
tain that we may have to wait even 50 long
as for the return to power Of strong Lbs
eral government. The Tories may come
to find that they had better make some
terms with the inevitable and get the, ben
eat Of the arrangement. If there We're now
q Disraeli among them they would PROB
ably be soon educated up to this polnt, re
know what DisraeM did with regard 70
Gladstone reform bill in 1868. by the
help of a Liberal secession eDisraellS Threw l',
out the bill and the government ana
came back to office. Then he bethought
himself that popular suffrage was nn-
svoidable---was merely question 81
fime--aY,s he began 20 ask htmsen why
the Tories should not undertake the tash =,
and have all the advantage. lie Went
on to work, he educated MS party Ae
told all the world Of the fact later on, ana
the, phrase is his own; he brought III Inc
very next session vague ana poor fe.-
form bill and he allowed the Radicals IN
tbc house Of commons to hammer 1t into
a very liberal and popular reform Dill.
T know myself what happened under a
Tory government at the time OF the ne
gotiaticns with Mr.. Parnell, which were
invited bv the late Lord Carnarvon, then
lord lieutenant Of Ireland. was IN
those negotiations and / knew how near
they came to a promise Of Home Kuie
from the Tory government. what the
Tory statesmen tried to do before they
may succeed in doing later on. 3
Gut it is not on such chance-on
s,1cb pos5ibi1ity-that would build my
hopes Let the Tories remain Tories as
long as they will: they cannot prevent
the political world from moving: ana
even Tories feel the movement. but oI
course the great solid strength OF ireland
IS in herself and her own cause, IN the
teachings Of history, in the lessons OF
experience There is not, SO far as
know, any people in the world VINO are
10 nearly unanimous on any poiltlcal
question whatever as the Irish people are
IN the subject of Home Rule In Eng
land we have many distracting questions
cf controversy which are constantly
pressing and entangling each other and
dividing the public att ntion in the most
ner7,,exed and unexpected fashion. Inc
great collapse of the Liberal party In
England at the late elections was due to
NJ, manner of conflicting influences--the
local veto bill dragging here, the hide
nendent Labor party pulling there, the
liberal. will have to deal with the settle
in one direction, the Home Rule question
making enemies in another. But IN Ire
land the whole battle WIS fought on the
upestior Of for and against Home Ruie.
The land question is to lr1shmen q sup"
{ect of the highest Importance, cohilhs
certainly next to the Home Rule: ply =
The Irish public now feel well convlnced
that any government coming IN, Tory OF
y;heral' will have to deal with the settle
nent Of this Irish land tenure system.
1iharefnre the fight was for or against
Home. Rule See what happened IN Ire
land.
I'm Scotland and in Wales things went
t,o+, * wall as might have been expected
With the Liberal party. In England her-
aejf the overthrow of the Liberals, was
q something disastrous. But In ireland
4 Home. Rule kept all its former. places
md captured two seats from the Ulster
,rories We have recaptured the his
toric city OF Derry-for generations the
fortress Of Ulster Orangism. ] personal
w rejoice in the recapture OF Derry city,
which it was my singular good iuck ~
pne time to win for the Nationalist cause
and which my friend, MI Vesey hhoA y
has now after three years rec0Ye l2E'u
we'll, my contention is that iW " zen W IS
thus have the vast maj q one psop Is
Y s--nf one nationality-all set IN favor Sol
! certain principle of government. that
N nrinciple is sure to be esta blished 10 the
snd. The English Liberal party are our u
sincere and untiring friends, but we 90
not rest our hopes merely on ~ Trend
ship of any English party. We rest them
8 IN the Justice Of our cause and the uhal-
terable tenacity Of our purpose.
/ 81 admit should be the last man 70
.deny--that we have suffered much oy
our own quarrels. say should be the
last man to deny this, because have. had
10 make again and again public remon-
STRANGE AGAINST the tendency Of some OF
n NV countrymen to get into little side
: battles OF their own, when we ought all
to be lighting the same common enemy.
Il have deplored this: have deeply re-
gretted the bitter necessity Of having to
7 take account Of 1t and to make public APP
speal and protest against it. But such
con .royersies can, at the worst, only OBJ
struct and delay the success OF q great
national cause. They cannot annihilate
IT. the country itself will not allow them
to annihilate 1t. At the very worst, and
n we in this hour are too hot temepred
IL and too full Of private and personal quar-
rels and anger to be able to make the best
sc OUT position the country will seek and
4 WIN ind before long a genear tton 5of
freshmen better gifted with that self-re-
I straint ana that discipline which are
needed for success in any manner OF bat
tie. After all, our very vices are the
common and, one might say, the ineVita-
HE vices az long pTotracted .servit ude. SIn
+ all manner of histories we read that Sthe
3 tendency OF the galley slaves, was tQ3 light
- =, -, I, ~ 1trfaS Until fhE day