The Irish standard., 1903-08-29

| he can do, he knows on what terms he
can secure home. Heretofore the
only knowledge he possessed on that
point was that lie could not acquire
Il home on any terms. This, to say
| the least, was disheartening. 1t may
reasonably be expected that there will
be no more of the discord which was
for so long the curse of the land. In
the conference on the land question in
Dublin, Protestants from Ulster sat in
the convention and maintained the
same opinions as such men as O'Brien
and Dillon. For the first time in CEN
turtles, Ireland may turn toward the
future. Heretofore the Irish have al
ways pointed to the past for both their
glory and their sorrow. Justin Nc
Carthy writing in the Fortnightly
Review, on the changed conditions in
Ireland says: "Thus, then. as it seems
to me, can we see the advance of the
coming Ireland. That Ireland is to be
in the future the home of the Irish
people. There is no other future for
the Irish people, which any true Irish
man could contemplate with satisfac
ton. 1t is not enough to he told that
the industrious and hard working man
can find home and a means of COM
Portable living in country not his
own, and that if he be an Irishman Of
any capacity, he can win Il position
and a name in some far-off land. 1t
does not reconcile Nationalist to the
depopulation of their country to be re-
minded that Irishmen can win wealth
and fame in England and can take
service with distinction in foreign ar
mics and navies; to be told that an
Irishman may be municipal boss in
the city Of New York, or may hold
high office in an Australian admins
tration. We want our beautiful is
land tenanted by its own people; it's
waste space brought into culture, its
towns and cities surrounded by Il hap
by suburban population, living in
pleasant and cultured homes, and the
whole resources of the soil developed
to their fullest capacity. The Irish
people are especially qualified to en-
joy life Oh their own soil. it they are
only allowed the chance. and to bring
out in fulness the intellectual as we'll
as the material resources of the coming
Ireland. There is Il deep undercur
rent of the poetic and artistic in the
Irish nature which the stranger can
easily discover for himself. even among
the Irish peasantry, if he enters freely
into conversation with them. and ell
courages them to talk about the memoir
les and legends still haunting their
lakes and streams. Such a people
could indeed create IL new Ireland, and
there is no extravaganza in the hope,
that THE new Ireland would become be-
fore very long, a model land of MATER
al comfort. Of mental growth, and of
tranquil and brOtherly ORDER These
are the hopes and aspirations of Irish
Nationalists, as expressed by one of the
most conservative Irshmen who ever
lived. Justin Mccarthy sat in the
House Of Commons curing the days of
Parnells leadership. he sat there after
the Irish party split, but left parlia-
ment soon afterwards. He speaks as
one thoroughly informed and in touch
with every movement in Ireland and
vet, without any of that responsible in
terest which he would have, had he
been IL member of the Commons. which
passed the land bill. If he can imag-
inc the picture which he gives of the
coming Ireland, we may well confident
ly expect better days for Ireland.