The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-11
Irish Nationalists Invite Every
Kind of Protection That Seems
at all Necessary
Home Rule Bill Will Contain Pro.
vision Against Establishment
of State Church.
Irish Speakers Receiving Enthusi-
astic Reception at Meetings
in England.

At home the last week has been ono
Of curious tranquility which was
largely duo to the smooth passage
through parliament Of the insurance
bill The last kick is out of all op-
position to the bill and 1t will be a
law before Christmas, says T. p.
OConnor in his London dispatch OF
Nov. to the Chicago Tribune.
This disappearance Of interest in the
insurance bill increases the tendency
already noticed last week to q gradual
submergence OF every other issue but
Home Rule.
The tories. Joined by a small Irish
factionist group of eight under OBrien
and Haley. now are attempting new
Home Rule bill. They demand the
Immediate production of the details of
the measure although the measure
cannot be introduced In the House of
Commons until the end Of February
o. perhaps the first week in March.
No such thing ever has been done
or even demanded previously in par
liamcntary history. The object of the
vancouver is to kill the measure before
IT is introduced by virulent, menda-
cious or insane criticism.
Plan Assassination Campaign.
If the bill in detail is premalurely
revealed the tories in England would
try a. campaign of assassination on Il
different line, representing it as in
volving q gigantic financial loss to
England This, indeed, now is one Of
tho favorite cries Of tho tories and the
tory papers publish fantastic inven-
tions every day as, for example. that
Ireland will demand a subsidy of
$120000.00o before starting Home Rule.
Premier Asquith has met these de-
mnnds with an icy refusal to say ono
word in anticipation OF the details, but
adding that everybody knows the main
lines and the chief principles of the
measure.
What this declaration means is that
Asquith and all other ministers realize
it is absurd to propose any measure,
grudging or unduly fettered or any
thing short or full SELF government.
The present position of the bill, I
understand, Is that the committee Of
the cabinet which dealt with 1t has
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before Asquith himself and later will
come before the cabinet.
or course no bill will be proposed
unless the ministry is assured of the
| support of Redmond and his party,
and Redmond will not accept any bill
which does not give all ireland can
| reasonably ask
Home RuIe Meetings Hold.
Home Rule meetings all over Eng
land are still going ahead and every
where there Is the same enthusiastic
| reception to the Irish members.
| Redmond captured this week big
audience OF leading business men Of
| London at tho city liberal club. which
| formerly was rent In twain by the
| Home Rule fight, but which now is at
most solidly in it's favor. .
| Another OF the problems of the Home
Rule solution is the protection that
ought to be given for the minorities
social and religious and political in
| Ireland.
AS to the general principle of every
kind Of safeguard being offered that
the minority can ask, there would be
no difference of opinion. The Irish
nationalists not only do not reject, but
invite every kind Of protection that
the ingenuity Of man or the practice
Of other nations can suggest. be-
lieve one could find in the constitu.
tions Of the province Of Quebec, with
its clauses for the protection of the
Protestant minority, and the constitu-
| ton Of the Province Of Ontario, with
its provision for the Catholic minor
ity, models which could be followed
In some respects. OF course there
might be a provision following these
lines which would give an Irish sub
! ject the right to appeal to high
court against anv enactment which