The Irish standard., 1905-09-09

1; hearts llnger. Inc hymn DeSlnS:
'"Oh. fare We we'll, Loeb Dcare!
Shall | ever see We more'
My heart is sore with gricving
To leave your sainted shore:
Until Lies day has passed away.
Fond memory I'll beguile
With joyous thoughts OF the days
spent
Upon your sainted isle.
'"Throughout each station season,
From every distant cline,
The children OF St. Patrick
Frequent this Holy Shrine
Each pilgrim here is edited
With picty sincere,
And here each soul is purified
Bv penanccs severe
1t has Just dawncd on us in ireland
that God helps those who help them
selves. Better late than never. We
have Begin to act on the happy inspir'
alton. We have been for some years
helping ourselves. industrially and
linguistically, with encouraging result.
The plan of campaign now is to help
ourselves politically. We had thought
that the apothegm read, God helps
those whom the British parliament
helps" For half century our polit-
cal leaders have so been interpreting
it to us. 1t struck someone the other
day to try new reading OF it, 1t
was the editor OF The United Irishman
who divulged to our people new read
ing. and offered to the country the
policy oil Sim fein. sim iein, aml1ain-
Ourselves, ourselves alone The
Sim Fem policy is that which is now
gripping the thinking portion OF Ire
land
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian pa
triot who wrested his country's free
dom from Austria, said: Only on a
nations own soil can country's des-
tiny be worked out" Kossuth said
so, and Hungary agreed with him.
Hungary called her representatives
home from the Austrian parliament,
and ordered them to cxpend their
money and their energies within their
own country. The result was, as Kos
suth had we'll forcsccn, that Hungary
in very short term of years became
{r.a
Z been, we think. Tor long enough pros
trating themselves on the floor of the
British House OF Commons begging
for the favors that never came, and
generally carrying home with them
more kicks than compliments. Under
the policy of ''Sinn fem" when it OBJ
tains. our representatives will meet Of
their own choice in the capital OF Ire
land instead Of the cnemy's capital,
and lcgislatc in hundred ways in
which the voice of the nation will make
their will law. The County Councils,
which did so much to help Kossuth in
Hungary. have in Ireland also great
powers both for the raising OF moneys
and for the enforcing OF laws. So
the Councils of the nation united with
the County Councils can, and will do
more for Ireland in a month than the
British parliament would do for us in
twenty.
Arthur Griffith, the remarkably able
young editor OF The United Irishman,
published last winter booklet entitled
1.-THE Resurrection of Hungary, a Par
aliel for Ireland showing the lines
along which the Hungarian struggle
was successfully carried out, and went
to prove that Ireland, if she followed
the same policy, was just as certain OF
success. This little book had a re-
n1arkable reception, edition after cdi-
ton having to be printed to meet the
enormous demand, proof that the
country, ripe for some new policy to
lift it from its letl1argy, took to this
one with avidity. Naturally enough
the political leaders, having their own
irons in the fire, d-shouldered it;
but such disinterested and able men of
wealth as Edward Martyr and JOHN
Sweetman took it UP heartily, and the
i-parliamentarians enthusiastically.
With all the more sensible, thinking,
level headed people OF the country it
has since then been steadily gaining
ground, and is beginning seriously to
threaten the parliamentarian move
ment. -,
Very soon anyhow the parliamentar-
ian movement will only need someone
to lean against it, and it will collapse.
The Parnell catastrophe Qor which all
sides were to blame) marked the be-
ginning OF the end. Since then parlia-
mentarianism in Ireland has been
steadily losing its hold on the country.
Today the efforts it is putting forth
TO appear commanding and brave are
truly pathetic. Many brave men over
the country who were born and bred
upon parliamentarianism. are fighting
like Trojans to keep the parliament
airy cause afloat, and by their great
personal influence. and the very dint
OF hard and unremitting industry, just
succeeded in keeping its head above
water. But it has begun to grasp at
straws and its end is not far off.