Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-23
HOME RULE IS
TOO INDEFINITE
IRELAND SEES IN PLAN ONLY
GLITTERINe GENERALITIES
Wants to Be "Shown"-Macdonne II
Project Has Small Chance of
SUceess-Fine Horse
Show
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Special Cable TO The IIeraId.

Special Cable TO The Herald.
DUBLIN, Sept. 22.-The outlines Of
most Of the schemes for home rule
published up to the present time deal
i'm gllttering generalities. 1t is difficult
If not tmpOSs ible for correspondents,
either English or Irish. to deal with
accomplished fact, for the reason that
little or nothing has been really settled.
Very little of the Dublin castle plan
has been allowed to transpre. a few
ballons d'essai have been flown to try
which way the wind blows, but the par
ticulars made public may bear no re-
sembance to the ultimate plan. There
Is one very important point on which
all forecasts are silent, and that is that
1t Is proposed to introduce nominated
element to keep the county council rep
rasentatives straight.
The value of any forecast of the Mac
donnell scheme may be gauged from the
fact that the plans are far from ma
tured, and they will be altered from
time to time to secure the adhesion of
this or that member of the cabinet.
If 1t Is true, as reported, that two or
three ministers have declared that they
will not go as far as the earl of Dun
raven then Sir Antony Macdonnell's
pet projects have little or no prospect
of success
The meeting of. the Unionist alliance
and the speech of Walter LonG, NJ. p,
are noteworthy at the present time.
For better or worse, the alliance rep
resents the Unionists of Ireland. 1t has
appointed Mr. Long its spokesman.
He was elected by big majority for
the one constituency outside Ulster that
returns Unionist. There are practi-
cally only two parties in Ireland-the
Nationalists and the Unionists. A cer-
tain section of Unionists, including
Lord Dunraven and some others, have
professed themselves dissatisfied with
the existing condition of Irish govern
ment and desirous of some reform. This
policy has been called "devolution."
The devolutionists number some men
of considerable ability. But they are
few in number. The Nationalists have
welcomed the movement of the devolu-
tionists, because their attacks on the
existing system are useful so far as
they go, though the remedy they have
proposed is pronounced not only made
quate but futile. The Unionists repu-
date them.
Government for 1t
The existing government is composed
mainly of men who have declared Nthem-
selves home rulers. The majority in the
cabinet have voted for Mr.. Gladstones
cipal members, including the prime
minister and Mr. Asquith. publicly de-
clared that home rule was the one eff
fective remedy Cor the Irish difficulty
The proceedings at the recent meeting
of the UnioniSts and the speech of Mr..
Long go to show that they would OPP
pose with equal vehemence any meas
ure of reform, however faltering and
feeble. They are prepared to oppose
devolution as strongly as home rule.
The speech of Mr.. Long. al the
spokesman of the Irish Unionists. is re-
garded as a warning to the government
against falling between two stools. 1t
is plain declaration that no watering
down of home rule, however much it
may ALLEVIATE Nationalist support, will
in the faintest degree mitigate Unionist
hostility.
Horse Show Fine
There seems to be very general
opinion that this years horse show has
been more successful than any of its
predecessors. Certain it is that the
show at Ballsbridge never looked better
than it did this year. Another remark
able aspect of this years show was the
number of strangers in Dublin. The
Irishman's love for horses is charac-
teristic of the race. Through all our
Gaelic litera ture the horse occupies a
lin, for instance, is almost as important
as Cuchullin himself. This old tradi-
ton of the love of horses has evidently
come down to all Irishmen. and is per-
haps one reason why the Dublin horse
show is the greatest horse show in the
world.
While cutting turf on bog in County
Limerick a laborer came on the horns
of an Irish elk, and carefully digging,
owl
magnificent specimen of this great deer,
where il had lain for cen nturies, pre-
served by the peat The horns meas
ure, from tip to tip, eight feet two
inches. 1t is in wonderful state of
preservat ton. considering the period of
time which has elapsed since those ami
mails existed, as no authentic time or
when they lived or what caused their
extinction. ireland was. undoubtedly,
its home. The head was purchased by
Messrs. Williams, the well known natu-
ralists, on Dame street.
Great Ceremony
The ceremony which took plase at the
recent unveiling at Youghal was OF un-
usual interest During the rising of
179S Father Peter ONeili, p. p. of
Ballymacoda, near YOughal was
flogged in the streets of that town, and
subsequently, transported on the sus-
plcion of having obtained, In his priestly
capacity, knowledge as to the person
who killed an informer named Murphy,
who was found buried in the strand at
Knockadoon. on the sides OF the ped
estal of the monument are inscriptions
in Irish and English recording the facts
that Father O'Neill and Patrick Nc
Carthy we're flogged and that Charles
O'Bren and Charles Gallagher were
hanged by the English soldiers in
Youghal in 1898. The memorial was
appropriately unveiled by Sir Thomas
Ismonde, and among the speakers on
the occasion were Captain Conelan,
Monsgnor Keller and Canon Peter
O'Leary.
Students of Dublin geogra phv have
unearthed the fact that the Thomas
street property just sold by Messrs.
Macarthur is close to the little known.
now underground. river figuring in old
Dublin annals as the Glib Water. Long
ago II was in reality a river. with banks
on either side, though now hidden from
view. There are several such rivers
traversing underground Dublin, like
the Swan Water at Baggot street, the
Rradoeue river flowing through the old