The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-12-10
Direct Result of System Of Government
Unsuited in Every Way to Require
ments Of Country.
Home Rule Would Mean Fresh Life and Hone
For Ireland and Result in Prosper
ity and Progress.

men have evinced desire to remove
THESE grievances which Ireland has ad-
mittedly suffered from, but all efforts
to render the Irish population either
prosperous or contented have failed
dismally, for the one simple reason
that the system of government known
rs dublin Castle" is an impossible
system and utterly unsuited in eyerv
way to the requirements of the
country
English ministers have gone to Ire.
land from time to time with the most
sincere desire to administer the gov
ernmcnt in n spirit of fairness and
justice, and they have always failed
III their attempts because they have
invariably discovered that the whole
system Of Irish government is so
anti1uated and thoroughly unrepre-
sentative us to make it quite impos-
SIDE to command either the respect or
The support of the masses of the non.
pie.
"Mr. Chamberlain once described
the Dublin castle government as moro
despotic than any Russian administro.
tlon. If new system of government
mad now to be designed for any port
Oh the empire no statesman in h,s
senses would think of proceeding on
the lines of the present Irish rule.
FOR 100 years that rule has been tried
ana it stands today condemned Inv
every test.
Home rule as it is demanded hv
ireland may not as yet have received
the sanction Of some EngIishmen hr+
! feel certain that sweeping reform
OF the Dublin castle system of oov.
ernment is within the contemplation NJ
all men of all parties who have given
any consideration to the state Of Ira.
, land.
THAT such reform will come in
'he near future is the confident belief
OF all politicians. Many we'll meant
| REFORMS for lrishmen in the past have
'a''eo FOR the reason that they were
not sufficiently thorough and that thew
stopped considerably short of what
was really necessary. This has NOT.
ably happened in reference to land
legislation.
Inc Irish members over and over
again pointed out defects in govern.
mcnt land bills. Their represents.
IONS were ever ignored, with the re.
SUIT that fresh legislation had invari.
'o'y TO be introduced. Is it too much
10 nope that, warned by this history
or the past, the attempt to reform
Dublin castle rule, when it is made
VIII DC a thorough attempt, which will
''ot matt half way, but which will salts.
~ TO the full the legitimate aspirations
OIL the people for free government
ana so put an end, once and forever
TO the miserable chapter Of discontent
which has lasted right through tha his-
tory of the last century in ireland? In
"ord' why at last, should not home
RUE be conceded? By Withholding it
the people Of Ireland have been ron.
oered wretched, and at the same time
England has gained nothing for her.
SER but trouble and danger.
"What would be the result in Of,
human probability of granting the
Irish demand? What would the now
century be like in Ireland under n
system of home rule? These are oues-
lions which know are on the lips Of
many Englishmen who look forward
with repugnance to the idea of com.
mencing another century in ireland
under the system which has proved so
deplorable in its results in the post
while, Of course, no man can FORE
cast the future with any certainty. IT
is possible to at least give ones opin-
Ion with confidence, and it is with .
confidence born Of long experience and
very considerable knowledge of the
working of Irish political affairs. that
l declare that wide and satisfa Glory
measure of home rule would trans.
form Ireland in comparatively short
time into a thriving and contented
land, the energies Of whose peonla