New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-12
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
An Englishman's Comment on Speeches at
Michael Davitt Meeting.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: While all sensible people If not at church
would be in their own homes during the cold rain
of Sunday night, find that fifteen hundred hot
headed Irishmen met in Carnegie Hail. ostensibly
for the purpose celebrating the first anniversary
OF the death of Michael Dayitt, but really to give
vent 10 their vituperative sentiments against Eng
Iand because Of her disnclinaton to grant Home
Rule 10 Ireland. Methinks the lions tail viii need
good deal Of twisting before Home Rule is grant
cd to Ireland; ana meetings like that of Sunday
evening, instead OF furtherng the cause, Will throw
1t back for years, if it does finally eXtingush
| all hope of its achievement
But there is one point which to me is not very
clear, and that is what the fifteen hundred Irish
men assembled on Sunday evening have got to do
WITH IT, 1t seems to me question of "minding
your own business Most of these men left Ire
land OF their free will; of them probably
Tor their "country's good" a few of them may
have never seen ireland. much less lived there.
/ nat be as 1t may here they are in America, sup
posed TO be naturalized American citizens. and
mere IN all probability, they intend to remain.
Under these circumstances. what right have they
10 NEEDLE in any with the affairs of another
nation, 10 say nothing OF the indulgence OF the
most outrageous abuse of that nation, like that
! given utterance to by the irebrand from Phila
delph!a for example? Such meetings this
opportunity to give their vie abuse OF
america or the manner in which she governs her
interference would be regarded in United States,
the meeting al P' CSrne l Ha is is held on
sunday evening. These fifteen hundred men would
then in keeping with their creed. would think 1t
day by holding "a secular meeting in the evening
and, in more senses than one, breaking the Zen
commandments, Of their priests by his pres
Ghce ana speech lending sanction and encourage
For the last sixty years l have been acquainted
MN ireland and the varying phases of her ma
has labored under some grievances, owing to the
these mostly of the nonresdent class The passing
OF the IRISH lana act has wrought a wonderful inn
OF the English Church in ireland was another OF
me many improvements that have been made in
Eer condition; and, in the opinion of many another
vast Improvement would have been made If she
could have been relieved OF the dominance Of the
Pope Of Rome and an INSCRIPTIONS and intoerant
Throughout the period above mentioned Ireland
has ever been restless and rebelltous Michael
was Justly punished for his fotninE in fhe Fenian
raid on Chester Castle. Just as Robert Emmett was
NAPOLEON in Irish rebellion against his own
1t IS this unceaeing agitation and restlessness
that have pTejudiced the cause of ireland in tho
which led the late Lord Salisbury to say that,
ENGLAND to grant Home Rule to Ireland in case
OF her netghhor, the sister kingdom. who would
only 70 annoy and emharrass the mother country.
. In the opinion Of Engishmen and majority Of
than is Scotland: that she t for seIrgove:n-
a9S DER d g5 Pc @ 6 and the 6pp %s
10 o ii int @me KHIe ToGia nure her CraH c
wopld-he rulers. and would lead to endless strife
have a sample Of government hy irishmen II there
IS, a quarrei case or Erott or any comn";'9m
J. Ran whose heart walls to Goa for ve6seancc
On England" predicts that ENGLAND viii never
s9.n foothoid in AncriC2 or form an ell,ap nee
prophecy: hqt let tel him. and also his friends
ar5 is ,, ,.,lInr n faotroId IN America. and rs
TO an alliance, well let us, thank God that al.
m Ire, ,dS te, do not rule tho dnom6ir rcra
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