The San Francisco call., 1903-01-18
IRELAND SEES
DAWN Of PEACE
Parliament Has Chance
to Heal Wounds Of
Centuries.
John Redmond Looks for a
Final Settlement of
Land Question.

LONDON, Jan. 17.-John Redmond, NJ.
p, the Irish leader, responding to a ma
tional address, presented to him at Edin-
burgh this evening, said he believed that
the friends of Ireland would soon see a
measure become a law which would heal
the wounds of centuries and give the
Irish people a chance of living in peace
and prosperity on their own soil. If this
chance of settling the Irish land question
were lost by the rejection of the measure.
continued Redmond, there would be an
overwhelming justification for such
strong, menacing and dangerous public
movement in Ireland as he would be
sorry to see.
Redmond hoped that the spirit Of con-
ciliation at the Dublin land conference
would be reproduced in the House of
Commons, and, II so, all the POLITICAL
parties might commence the work Of ap-
peasement and justice in Ireland.
Hitherto the Irish Nationalists had been
fighting landlordism, and not the land
lords, who they wished would remain to
take part in the government of the coun-
try.
Redmond further said that the demand
on the treasury for the carrying out Of
the voluntary purchase scheme was not
unreasonable. The deficit would disap-
pear in ten years by the reduction in the
cost OF governing Ireland. Laying aside
the questions of what was due to the
landlords and of the debt due to Ireland,
it would be a profitable investment to
settle the land question, which had baf-
fed the best English statesmen, had been
q source of poverty, misery and blood
shed and had caused the emigration OF
millions of Irishmen, who took to Amer
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great intellectually and administrative
ability and power:
Although the charge which was made
by the administration element, that the
attacks on Limantour published in FL Pro
tesla were inspired by Rudolfo Reyes, q
son of General Bernardo Reyes, was
given as an excuse by the latter for re-
signing from the Cabinet position of Sec
retary of War, it is learned from a high
source of authority that President Diaz
had determined some time ago to find an
other place for General Reyes. The lat
ter is the pronounced candidate of the
military element for the presidency. His
friends who do not hesitate to express
themselves freely on the subject when on
tkis side of the border, say that no ac-
ment can move General Reyes in his de-
termination to wage quiet but energetic
campaign for the presidency. The elec-
ton is two years off, and even should the
present plan of President Diaz to send
General Reyes to Europe at the head of a
military commission be carried out his
friends will look after his political inter
ests during his absence.
The financial and business elements are
giving their solid support to Limantour,
and this fact will doubtless have great
weight in determining the result of the
contest.
The interest which President Diaz and
his official family are taking In the can
didacy of Limantour is shown by a long
article which has just been published In
the official newspaper organ OF the Fed
eral Government-Diario Oflcial-in which
response Is made to the assertion pub
lished in a City Of Mexico newspaper that
Limantour is ineligible to the presidency
because he is not a Mexican citizen by
birth. The following is a translation of
the salient features of the official re-
sponse as published In Diario Oflcial:
I'm a recently founded weekly publica-
ton of this city there has been initiated
what in journalistic language is called a
campaign against Jose Ives Limantour,
Minister of Finance and Public Credit.
The ostensible object of this campaign
is TO eliminate from the approaching
election the candidacy of Mr. Limantour
to the presidency of the republic and
with this apparent purpose an effort is
made to agitate and excite public opinion
without any object
Jose Ives Limantour was born in the
City of Mexico on the 26th day of De-
cember, 1854 Mr.. Limantour made all OF
his studies in this same city, from those
of primary instruction until being called
to tho har I'm the school Of iIIrIsprrIda apca
of this capital. Therefore the we'll proven
fact of the birth of Mr.. Limantour in
Mexico. the constant and invariable legal
Interpretation of our constitutional texts,
the express provision of the organic law
of the constitution on the point in ques-
ton and the numerous and unequivocal