The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-08-24
FAvoRs HOME RULE.
Justin Mccarthy Believes King Ed
ward is Friendly to Measure.

!
Justin Mccarthy, former vice-cha
man of the Irish Parliamentary Party
believes in King Edwards sincere pur-
pose to do all he can to bring about
Irish Home Rule, and he assures the
readers of The Independent in an in
teresting article. Concerning King,
Lords and Commons" that the Eng
fish King and Queen were received
with enthusiasm in Ireland, because
the Irish believed in their good inten-
tions, and accepted the pardon of
Colonel Arthur Lynch as an earnest Of
greater things.
Says Mr.. Mccarthy: ireland de-
mands. has long demanded, and will,
soon have with the full sanction and
approval of King Edward VII, Ma
tional Parliament for the domestic gov
eminent of her own people by The
! legislation Of her own representa-
tives." We hope Mr.. Mccarthy is
right.
He continues:
! Every educated and intelligent Eng
lishman is now ready to admit that the
government of Ireland by England
down to the accession of Queen Vic
toria and even for some years after
was such as must have kept in con-
slant rebellion any people who did
not lack gall to make oppression Bit
ter do not need to go over the old
sad story of that oppression, and I
only touch upon it with the object of
showing that England always had it in
her power to make Ireland a contented
sharer in her imperial system, and
that the time has now arrived when
the sovereign and the great majority
of the English people are desirous
that such free and contented part
nership shall be established. King Ed
ward has, of course. when Prince of
Wales. paid several visits to Ireland
before, and was always we'll received
there. but his going to Ireland at the
present time is significant Of mean
ing and purpose entirely different
from any which il could have had
while he was not yet the crowned rep
resentative of the Empire.
The whole course of political move
ment in Great Britain and Ireland has
undergone a change destined to be
memorable in our history, a change
of which it is impossible as yet to
foreshadow the full influence. That
change is found in the formation Of an
independent and powerful Labor
party inside the House Of Commons
We have had for many years some
representatives Of labor in that House
we have had these since the extern
sion of the franchise gave to working
men the opportunity of voting for a
candidate of their own choice and of
their own order. Eut only of very re-
cent years has there been established
in the House Of Commons a regular
avowed and independent Labor party
considerable enough in numbers to af-
feet any party division in the House
and acting when occasion requires
with especial or even with exclusive
regard to the interests of their own
order. Such a party is now prominent
in the House. and it acts as indepen-
IDENTIFY of all other parties as the Irish
Nationalist do, and it makes its in
f1uence felt on the constituencies and
on the country as well as on the par
liamentary assembly
A remarkable illustration Of this
new influence was given lately in the
case of the Jarrow election, where
four candidates were set up in con-
test, one representing the Liberal
party. a second the Conservatives, e
third the Irish Nationalist, and the
fourth the Labor party. Every effort
was made by the leaders of those sew
eral parties to win success for their
CdnQlQdte. i he rhine Minister rec
commended the Liberal candidate: Mr..
John Redmond spoke for the National
list: the Conservative leaders did ali
they could for the man of their own
political views. and when the poll was
taken it was found that the Labor
candidate had been elected by a de-
cisive majority.
It has to be borne in mind by OBJ
servers in general that there is moth
ing revolutionary. according to the
ordinary and more formidable sense
of the word. in the purposes and the
demands Of the Labor party. 1t is not
necessarily Socialist party, nor does
it proclaim or suggest any projects Of
attack upon throne and altar or upon
private property such as one would
naturally associate with the represen.
tatives of the laboring masses in some
Continental political movement