The Irish standard., 1902-11-01
One good at least is coming Of this

One good at least is coming Of this
imbroglio in the House of Commons
Americans are learning to appreciate
the struggle the Irish people are max
ing through their parliamentary repre-
sentatives for personal and national
rights. The cool refusal to give even |
q day to the discussion Of Irish ques-
lions, unless the English Liberals ask
ed it, has called forth expressions OF
establishment from even those who
generally are inclined to take the Eng
lish side. It is enabling them to ap.
preciate how far the movement against
liberty has gone under the prevailing
drift toward imperialist aggression in
Great Britain, writes Robt. Ellis
Thompson in the Irish World.
Mr. Balfour, who gave this insolent
answer to Mr.. O'Brien, is a Scotch
man. He belongs to people which
had to fight for even hearing against
lust such English insolence. Sect
land actually saw her affairs submit
ted to the control of a Council for
Scotland set up in London by Charles
l., with men like Archbishop Laud in
it's membership. 1t was against this
nttempt to swallow up Scottish nation
atty in English that the Scotch rose
in 1888, and ceased not their resist
ance until they sent the Stuarts over
the sea for good. Yet here is the bear
er of an honored Scottish name doing
lust the same dirty work in the SER
vice of English insolence as the Bal
tours Of 1638-16SS risked life and es-
tate to prevent.
Ireland united, orderly and enthust
astic for her rights is spectacle
which has the largest claims on the
sympathies Of the whole world. 1t has
the sympathies Of the English colonies
in the very highest degree, as Cham
berlain found when he met the pre-
miers of the colonies in conference In
London. 1t has the sympathies of the
American people as whole. That
Anglomaniac was quite right who
warned his party that nothing could
be done to really bring the English
and American peoples into harmony
until the aspirations of Ireland were
satisfied. Till this was done, he told
them, all the talk about an "Angio-
Saxon Alliance would be talk and
nothing more. Ireland blocks the way
If all the measures which are needed
to bring England out Of her perilous
and friendless isolation. She divides
every colony, paralyzes the efforts OF
the friends of England in America,
and is the Banquos Ghost at every I'M
perialist banquet on either side OF the
Atlantic. AS the secretary of our
Transatlantic Society admits, they can
not get one public man to take part
in an Anglomaniac meeting, while
these throng those for Ireland and for
the Beers.
Yet this Tory scotchman declares
that the united representation OF Ire
land has no right to hearing In his
IMPERIAL Parliament unless an English
party ask him for it. do not blame
Mr.. Campbell Bannerman for not ask
ing for 1t. 1t is not his business to
break the force Of such insolence by
making the request. The lnsn
neither have asked him to ask, nor VIII
thew do so. AS for the nonsense thai
the English Liberals alone can SPEAK
as the opposition, that belongs to thu
day when England had homogene
ous parliament, with but two parties
over against each other. playing tDf
game by recognized rules, which eact
in turn accepted when out OF power
and enforced when in office. There
are today three parties in the mousse
and one of the three has no interest,"
IN such rules, for the reason that Il
ia permanently debarred from office
IT never has accepted them, for it has
nothing to gain by them 1t is not
section of the Liberal opposition, lee
by Mr.. Campbell-Bannerman and will
not be so treated. 1t is the repre-