The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-26
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
NEW YORK, Oct. pa view of
Irish politics of the hour, taken on the
spot, by an Irish lawyer of consider
able eminence who has just sailed for
home after a visit to New York con-
nected with an international law suit
and who during his stay was not dis
covered by the American reporter, will
come with freshness and interest to
readers on this side. The gentleman
who expressed the views here given is
a well known member of the senior bar
in Ireland. His visit here was, so to
speak, an accident in the routine of his
professional work, and in his leisure
moments he told fellow countryman
the. truth about the political situation
as concerns the home rule question.
Being himself an extremist on neither
side of the controversy, his views,
While accurate and far seeing, may be
relied on as being entirely impartial
L believe that home rule, as it is
commonly called. viii be granted after
a while, as a result of the constant
agitation carried on by the Parliament
tary party, Which represents a large
proportion of the voters, in fact, it
holds the greater number of the Irish
parliamentary seats. But that it rep
resents all Ireland, or the whole Irish
people, is by no means the case. Alb
solutely opposed to. the Nationalist
party. are the members who sit in the
imperial parliament for Dublin univer-
sity, as well as the majority of those
members Who sit for the northern
province. of Ulster.
Objections Are Many.
.There is an immense proportion of
Irish people who do not want home
rule-certainly not home rule to be
administered by men of the kind who
now form the bulk Of the Nationalist
party.
} If any English administration were
to succeed in passing a home rule bill
at the instigation Of this present Ma
tionalist party, they would do so in
defiance of. the most strenuous obiec-
ton on the part of most important
section of the people of Ireland, a sec
ton which represents the bulk of the
wealth, brains and breeding of the ISL
and This section of home rulers
is moreover numerically strong enough
10 maintain a state of civil war in Ire
land-a course to which they would T
believe, be unwillingly driven if the
legislative powers of a new Dublin par
Lament were to be welded by such
l4ftsi1 us IIdhtfup the Nationalist parry.
What is my reason for taking this
view?o Well, Dublin parliament of
tomorrow would perforce be made up
or perpetual majority of members
antagonistic to the anti-honle rule sec
ton, above mentioned, of the popula-
tion.F This majority would always be
in power in the administrative sense;
and even if it were composed of two
Chambers strictly popular one, and
another, election 10 which would only
be. possible in the case of special prop
erty qualif1cations-wha would be the
value of parliament perpetually at
loggerheads with itself-one chamber h
obstinately blocking all measures ia
vored by the majority of the other A
deadlock would result, with popular
feeling running high meanwhile and
even if such deadlock were subject to
being broken by some high revising
authority, constituted with view to
meeting such contingencies, the gen
eral result would in the long run pro
duce such cumulative public dissatis-
faction that the whole home rule
proposition would break down.