The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-21

bags waiting to be conveyed TO Queenstown
to cross to the States. They were 80
numerous a week ago that the m
had to leave behind several hundreds to
wait for berths in other ships.
Stand at m of the railway depots in
Dublin when the big trains come in with
excursionists from the for the
exhibition and you sec one Of the most
striking results of the emigration drain.
The excursionists are mostly women, who
are generally old, with a sprinkling of pen,
also mostly old OF joyous youth little IL
seen. Twenty years. ten years, even hvc
years ago those trains would have dis
korged loads of muscular, strong limbed
young I%rishmen, fit to go anywhere and to
do anything.
The disease Is there, and It IL for tho
political doctor TO diagnose the case and
cure it. Mr.. Croker tells me that a measure
of Home Rule would in his opinion be ar
adequate remedy. He believes that with
self Ireland would revive.
Industries would be started, employment
would be provided that would keep the
young at home, agriculture would inn
prove, and he is confident that many Irish
Americans who have made fortunes WOULD
like himself make an eastern course over
the Atlantic TO spend the eventime Of sifs
in a contented Ireland. The N~ationalis.
political physician agrees a Home Rule
will restore the patient to health, bur
the independent onlooker at the patients
bed sees complications that will retard che
cure. Without union we are told there
can be no hope of obtaining the Home Rule
medicine from the English dispensary.
This unity is becoming more and more
remote.
In it's recent turning the political keleido-
scope had evolved the Sim Fem party.
which wants Ireland TO stand by her own
efforts at home and to withdraw the Parlia-
mentary party from Westminster. The
Sim Feiners are the youngest and most
vigorous Of the politicians and their doc
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country. So popular is the movement
that il is declared by the politicians that
the United Irish League can only thrive
by. falling in with the organization and
following it's lines As the United Irish
League is controlled by the Parliamentar-
ians, the latter will admit that they are on
the horns Of a dilemma. since they refuse to
march shoulder to shoulder with Sim Fem.
Added to this. the party has the refusal OF
Messrs. Healy and O'Brien to Renter their
fold and a further split in the camp caused
by the desertion OF a trio Of Sim Fem mem.
bers OF Parliament because Mr.. Redmond
refused to withdraw from Westminster
to lead a vigorous campaign in Ireland.
Thus stand the fighting forces at the
moment. There Is a pause in the opera
lions. but the army 10 forming up for a
further advance. and il is a noteworthy
fact that the people. whether they belong
TO Sim Fem or the other side, are imbued
with a spirit equal to that which impelled
revival of the league is to be pushed for
ward and arrangements have been made
for the holding of meetings throughout
Ireland from sea to sea which will be ad-
dressed by the most strenuous speakers that
the country can produce.
tn first shots of the renewed battle will
Don be fired and the leaders are confident
Of victory. The authorities Of Dublin
Castle are more perturbed over the situa-
ton than they have been for the last twenty
years. They know that the old physical
force spirit has been revived throughout
the country and that the men who are
about TO fight will court the prison cell.
They are i'll equipped TO deal with the
coming struggle. Even low. with the
anti-grazing movement in a quiescent
state. they have every available constable
in the west and south. while owing to the
scarcity Of mel they have had to call out the
military to help the police in the north.