The Irish standard., 1896-10-03

| of this country always on the side of
religious liberty. He helped us to ennan-
cipate the Catholics in this country as
we'll as in Ireland, when the churchman
did his very best to maintain the penal
laws. He helped to pass the Irish land
acts. He voted against coercion, and at
the present hour, when we bring forward
annually the motion for the release Of
the political prisoners in Ireland, tt is
the political Nonconformist who sup-
ports u.s.
No wonder, in view of how he was
going to vote, that he added: "and am
not ashamed to confess that it Is with a
sense of the deepest pain that 80 into
the lobby tonight against those who
have been our allies" ssti3 t:8{ ~
But it had been considerable part OF
the cardinals campaigning to bring Dill
Ion and the other Irish members to re-
gard the support of the Christian Par:
tvs" educational measure as a most ur-.
gent and essential duty of the Catholic
religion and they voted for and passed
the bill OF course Dillon protested that
in committee he and his party would do
their best to undo the clauses bearing
unjustly on their old allies. But this
promised service came to nothing. The
bill itself as relief to the Catholic
grievances came to nothing. But the
voting Of the Irish members angered the
whole body of the Nonconformists,
alienated great deal of the best Eng
lishmen's sympathy with home rule, and
started, with too much show of truth, the
cry that the priests controlled the Irish
VOTE" and ''home rule meant home
rule" Said the speaker, from the start
a staunch supporter of the Irish cause:
eve do not wish to use hard words to
the Irish home rulers who deliberately
broke the alliance with their "political
friends in England, but it cannot be de-
MED that the vote proves that they are
under the domination of the priests, and
by vote have placed themselves in an en-
tirely different position in regard to the
English parties. The step may lead to
very momentous consequences"
There IS in England, lay and clerical,
from of old a strong zeal for religion,
law and order and everything good and
lovely at the cost of Irish sacrifices. To
be home ruler makes an Irish ecclesi-
astic liable to be called "a "surpliced ruff
fam by the London Times, and some
thing not much better by the English
Catholic Tablet. But all proper, and
only as was due to his *Sold Catholic fam
lily" for Cardinal Vaughan, soon after
getting his title, to appear conspicuously
at Tory political club. In the cam
paign that brought to power Salisbury
and his Masonic-Orange cabinet, and in
his t'Christian Party's'' educational bill,
Irishmen all over the country. were ex-
pected to set aside all their country's
wrongs and interests, to go against
their intensest feelings, to forget the
persistent brutality and fiendishness OF
the Tory party and it's press, to frater-
nize with those that could not quit hat
ing and despising them and help into the
place of Gladstone the brute that called
them Hottentots. And wherefore all
this? For religions sake? Not a BIT OF
it; but for money and for other people;
to help the reverend managers of the
schools to a few more shillings per
pupil. The whole amount to be gained,
at the best, would not come to what
might have been saved by the cardinal
and his Jealous campaigners for the To-
ries and their educational bill, by delay
ing yet while the projected million
pound cathedral at Westminster, and by
taking the teetotal pledge. Besides, even
for legislation the best the Tories would
do fell short of what Liberal leaders
agreed to and under the growing inau-
ence of the home rulers would surely
have granted The sensiblest, falrest,
strongest statement and recommenda-
tion of the Catholic claims was that made
by the ultra-radical Reynolds News
paper.