Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-16
s pOre' Not Alone to Blame for Damage to
the Vegetable.
HOPE FOR HOME RULE is GROWING BRIGHT
Great Forward Step Expected from Mex,
Sessicn Of Parliament.
VILLAIN O'BRlsh go UsGss CAUTION
i-opes that Proposed Government
WiII Not be Condemned Until
IL Has Been Carefully
Considered.

DUBLIN, Sept l5.-(Spe>dal CableGram |
TO 1he Bee. )-Americans having frIends |
and relatives in Ireland are naturally |
deeply interested In the accounts OF the |
potato blight. Probably the best reports |
are those made by the correspondents Of
the Farmers Gazette. And II is significant
to nCte that the latest accounts published
by that paper are decidedly disheartening.
1.-The poor, overtaxed land la the con-
gested districts especially the failure has
been disastrous There is a new theory of
the disease, which indicates that even
spraying, though a valuable preventive,
,annot be looked upon as a wholly enec
tive remedy to the disease. Hitherto it
was believed that spores were solely
responsible; but Mr.. Massee of Kew, a
very high authority on the subject, has
discovered that epidemics of the disease
are due to "hibernating mycelium" in 4
the tuber, which, in certain damp, hot,
muggy weather, infects not merely the
plant itself, but the whole crop. From this
discovery, It is plain that spraying, which
deals only with the spores. or the danger Of
spores on the stalks, cannot affect the de-
velopment OF the seed of the disease in
the tuber The selection of clean healthy
seed is a precaution as essential as the
spraying. But. even then, there is no as
surance that the disease may not, in one
form or another, remain latent in the soil,
especially In those exhausted patches which
year after year have been given over to
potato crop. Proper sized farms, properly
cultivated, are essential before the plague
Of blight can be thoroughly exterminated
from stalk and tuber.
Hope for Home Rule.
The greatest interest is being taken here
IN an article which recently appeared In
the Paris Temps, in which reference is
made at length to the speech made at a
banquet in Dublin recently by Sir A. Mac
Donnell. I'm which the permanent under
secretary for Ireland expressed the firm
belief that the next session OF Parliament
would see the fruition of many of those
hopes which the best Irishmen had for
years entertained. The Temps says:
Sir Antony MacDonneli's sympathies are
as unimpeachable as Is the authority of his
Information. The great and good news
considered as oficiaL and must be placed
pn record. as IL marks epoch in the his
the The direction Of autonomy w is iamsFq being pre En-
pared The utterance was certainly a
ioO%ed he sh 'nGSs aeeston wSG Snd eGRses Ryss
studied the last speech from the throne
VIII have no difficulty in gauging the scope
will propose to the Commons will be ad-
ministrative home rule. and particularly
great step. Whenever, according to
his scheme, local government and the man
piaced In the hands OF Irishmen. one will
De able to say that the crying demand for
national Parliament will have lost much
party led by Mr. John Redmond viii un- @
compromislngly oppose Mr.. Bryce's gener-
GUS proposal because OF its very generosity
and the beneficial effect which 1t Is sure TO
have in a country which British admnistra-
sSls % bS which e i is aicteS SSt By OPPOSING
this proposal the Irish party would de-
prive themselves OF every foundation for
the Irish nationalist deputies act In this
manner they will deserve the stigma of
being only politicians caring more for their
own parliamentary positions than for the
interests of their country.
o'Brien Hopeful.
ina recent address at Mallaw. Mr.. VIII
liam o'Brien, M. p, expressed the hope
that next year ireland would have a sub
stantiai measure OF self government. He
trusted that all good Irishmen would be
extremely cautious about condemning the
promised bill until they knew all about It.
To tell the Irish people that the bill would
give them all at once. and, as a minimum.
nothing less than all that the Beers had
got In the way of complete responsible
government was nonsense-pernicious non
sense
upon the matter editorlally, admit that
"the relations between the two islands
CGreat Britain and Ireland have entered
upon a new era"
Probably one thing which is binding
ireland more and more closely to Great
Britain is the fact that means of trave
and INSTRUMENTATION are constantly In
creasing. For instance. the Great Western
Railway company has just inaugurated a
new route to ireland via Fishguard Con
siderable interest attaches 10 this enter
prise, by means OF which the time occu.
pied hitherto on the journey between Eng
land and the sister isle by the Greai
Western route will be lessened by nearly
three and half hours. Curiously enough
the scheme now about to be brought tC
completion realizes a project cherished
actually half century ago When. a
that period. Brunei was preparing his PLAN
for the South Wales section OF the Grea
Western railway. OF which he had becom,
the engineer In 1888 he decided that tn,
most expedient point for the lines western
terminus would be found at FishgIar,
bay, which forms the southern extremity o
Cardigan bay.