Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
NAT|ONAL|STS TO
PRESS REFORM
Redmond'S Party Will Insist on
Irish Home Rule in
Parliament

allStS are not dlSmaNed by tnc TepoIl9
from London that home rule is still
/ long way off and that ireland must
take anything she can get. The Ma
tionalists are stronger in the new par
/ lament than in the one recently dis
solved, and as they still hold the bal
ance of power, they propose to eXer-
else it to the limit Home Rule or
Nothing" is now the cry of the Red
mondites, and they propose to march
into the new house of commons with
| this slogan cmblazOned on their ban
nors in very large letters. Leader John
/ Redmond'S declaration at wexford,
only parts of which have previously
been cabled to America, clearly indl-
Gated that he has the British cabinet
under his heel. Mr.. Redmond said that
the house of lords for centuries had
deprived Ireland of home rule and now
it must go. He continued:
Then when the veto is gone all
that will remain to be done is for SEN
sible, patriotic, moderate men to settle
down and consider the details of a
home rule scheme, and We will, please
God, be engaged in the work before
| long. Ireland has reason to be proud
that here is the band which is to strike
the deadly blow against the hereditary
enemies of the Irish race. We were
/ LOlQ IIaL we SnOulu nave dSSl7ICNi tiI0
holI<e of lords and defeated the bud
get Well the budget-nor even a
! hundred budgets-does not weigh in
the scale against Irish liberty.
TRY TO CONFUSE PUBLIC
"There is an attempt being made
| to confuse the public mind in England
as to what we mean by home rule. we
mean a parliament elected by the irish
| people, with an executive responsible
| to it with full control over all purely
| Irish affairs. We do not want to bulld
a navy of, dreadnaughts, nor to create
an army in order to invade England,
| nor to set up diplomatic relations with
! the cZar of Russia. But we do want
| to have the making of all laws dealing
with purely Irish affairs placed in the
hands of Irishmen, and Irishmen alone:
! That is all that we ask, and we VIII
accept no less than that
"An attempt has been made to Gre
ate confusion by talking about fedora
ton What / have said about lrlsh
home rule so far from icing incon-
sistent with what the other parts OF
the kingdom might desire hereafter
might possibly prove the beginning OF
such a system. We do not object to
Scotland or Wales having a parliament
of their own, but we are not going to
wait. / believe it is the highest I'M
perial interest to conciliate Ireland.
Canada was disloyal. At one time
they We're actually in the field. They
got home rule. Australia was dlsat-
fected. She got home rule. South At
rica fought for three years and she
got home rule. These people are all
contented and prosperous. In Ireland
we demand the same treatment as
Canada, Australia and S~uth Africa.
WOULD SAFEGUARD PROTEsTANTs
In conclusion Mr.. Redmond said that
his party would not accept any scheme
of home rule which did not fully safe
guard the rights and privileges OF
their Protestant fellow-coutrymen
It is stated that proceedings have
been instituted by the crown against
Sir Arthur Wears, late Ulster king OF
arms and registrar of the Order of st.
Patrick.
The information, which has been filed
| in the kings bench division by the
chief crown solicitor on behalf of the
attorney general prays for declara-
tion that the badge of gold provided
for the service of the registrar of the
order of st. Patrick, which it is al
| legged is now in the possession OF Sir
Arthur Wears, is the property of the
king, and an order is asked for ITS de-
| livery to the king, or in default dam
ages. Another paragraph asks IN the
alternative that the badge may be de-
| livered to Sir Novile Wilkinson, Ulster
king of arms, the present registrar of
| the order.
Mr. Birrell, chief secretary for Ire
! land, has given a humorous descrlp-
| ton of the method of obtaining legls-
| lation from the house of lords at a
meeting in England. The differences
between the two houses of parliament
he said, recalled the old lines
Papa says Pooh! she may;
Mamma says no. she shant."
What the house of lords said to Lib
eral legislation was mo, she shan't'
TALK is OF NO USE
How does the Liberal minister pro-
ceed with a bill after it has passed the
commons? He knows it is no use talk
! ing or arguing. He has only thirty
or FORTY peers ready to vote with him,
while a hundred would be obeying
party whip to vote against him. You
have to abandon discussion and adopt
private negotiations. You meet In con-
ference with the leader of the house of
| lords, the Tory leader. You sit around
the table and you say well. now,
what are you going to do with TINS plll
of mine?" They say. "Oh, Of course
we cannot give it to you in the ridicu-
lous form in which it has passed the
| house of commons, but if you give up
this clause and throw that to the
wolves and consent to such and such
alterations in other clauses, perhaps
we may let you have it,"
That is what happens and what do
you say? You begin bluffing on both
sides. They say, you shant have
that" You say, IT will" Then they
say. perhaps you may have little
| Bit of it." and on you go until when at
last YOU come to what you feel salts
fled is their irreducibe minimum you
go back to your colleagues disheart-
erq1. discouraged. broken down, and
! saw: "Those fellows are Obdurate
They won't let me have the bill, but
will insist upon it being altered in this
way and that.
WHY VETO SHOULD GO
"What am to do?" CA voice; "Chuck
them out."O We are leading up to that.
| cloud cheers) I say to my colleagues,
"What am | to do?" and they reply,
ooh. we'll poor fellow, it is very hard
upon you; you have worked like
negro. but, still. half loaf is better
than no bread-perhaps you had bet
| ter take it.
And you either make up your mind
! that YOU will be content with half a
| loaf and submit to their alterations or
you take your courage in your hands
! and say: IT will not allow this bill Ito
be altered like that" Then they throw
| il out. If you grumble and cry and
exclaim, they say, "Well. then. why
not dissolVe?' and when you dissolve
| thev say. "You are dislocating the
trade of the country"
We are for the abolition of the veto;
that is to say, the time has come when
they shall no longer say of we'll con-
sidered Liberal measures, mo, you