The Irish standard., 1905-10-28

Ine 1OllOW1nS eu1CoTAd1 4IoAA SAo
Chicago Citizen doubtless voices the
sentiment of the larger portion Of the
Irish race in this country:
"The Irish People" newspaper has
been established in Dublin by Mr..
William O'Brien, M. p, who is in a
state of disagreement with the Dublin
Freeman and the majority Of the Irish
party. The Citizen is sorry for this,
because Mr.. O'Brien has performed
can do much more-if he will only
avoid clashing with his former con-
freres-for her cause in the future. The
main reason of difference between
"The Irish People," Mr.. O'Brien and
his following and the Freeman" Mr..
Redmond and the Irish party appears
to be this: Mr.. O'Brien wants to have
a good understanding, a policy of
"conciliation," with Lord Dunraven
ana his fellow Young handierdas,,ss =
who say they believe in "Devolution"
and literally compensated land re-
form, whereas the Freeman and the
Irish party put little faith in the
"young landlords" still less in "Devo-
luton" and want land reform to be
cheap and satisfactory to the Irish
farmers and laborers in all the prov
inces. Surely these are small grounds
for contention, but, none the less, con-
tention has been excited and Mr..
O'Brien, with a powerful paper be-
hind him, cannot be entirely, or even
partially, ignored. How unfortunate
for Ireland that the flame Of faction
should again be famed by the very
genius Of the men who should make
every sacrifice for unity! The old
curse of disunion seems to be upon
her again: In the first number of the
new series of his Irish People" Mr..
O'Brien is vouminous in his explana-
ton of his position and he attacks his
opponents, particularly the newspapers
that oppose him, in trenchant style.
We cannot see what good can come
from this controversy, which, after all,
has so little provocation. 1t is the old
story-only more SO. In concluding
a five-column article headed Our
Mission" Mr.. O'Brien's paper says:
The Home Rule question was work.
ing itself out all the more irresistibly
for not being thrust into the front.
1t was well known that Young Land
lordism was from the very first as
willing to come to some great National
agreement for the management of
Irish affairs in Ireland as they had
been to cooperate in the extinction OF
Landlordism: Mr.. Redmond's only
complaint (and a wise one) was that
Lord Dunraven and his friends were
'inclined to go too fast" in the Home
Rule direction. Every new difficulty
settled by the same methods was an
obstacle removed, and another i'm
pregnable argument for Irishmens
self-governing powers set up in the
eyes of England. The almost certain
result, if we had gone on strengthen
ing the entente instead of madly shat
tering it, would have been before the
dispersal of the present parliament
the assembling of the conference
which Gladstone dreamed Of between
the statesmen of both English parties
and of the Irish party on the. question
of Irish f-government-call it by
whatever sugared name they pleased
And the redistribution question, which
is now one of the blacklist clouds on
our horizon, would have offered just
the ideal opportunity for revising the
relations between the two nations.
All parties, all interests, the stars
in their courses, were fighting for Ire
land, as never before. The only in
terest enlisted on the side of bringing
us back to chaos was that of the little
band to whom, for reasons of their
own. the word Conference was a
torture and a horror. They unhap
PLY included two men of power in the
innermcst circles Of the party. ard one
man who practically welded the power