The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-09-30
LINING UP FORCES
FOR HOME RULE
Irish Parliamentary Party Busily
Preparing for Final Stage
of the Fight.
Will Demand Complete Self-Govern-
ment in all Purely Irish
Affairs.
Details of Bill Will be Tentatively
Arranged Before Session
Opens.

Although we have heard compara-
lively little about the constructive
work which the members of the Irish
Parliamentary party have been en-
gagged in since the passage of the Veto
bill. they are, nevertheless. as active
now as they ever were even when the
Veto fight was at it's hottest. The
work of lining up the forces for the
final battle is going forward rapidly.
Commenting on the situation the Lon
don Tablet says:
With the passing of the Parliament
bill political parties are busy prepar-
ing for the coming struggle over Home
Rule which has itself undergone
happy change of heart on the subject
Of Irish legislative Independence.
There is to be Il visit on the part of
the ministerial members of Ireland,
and a campaign in favor of Home Rule
in England. Mr.. Stephen Gwynn. M.
p, at Mr.. Redmond's request has writ
ten and published little book entitled
1.-THE Case for Home Rule" To this
| Mr.. Redmond has written d preface,
in which he defines Ireland's demand
as meaning no less and no more than
| this: ireland asks for an Irish Par
lament, with an executive responsible
to it, to deal with purely Irish affairs.
subject to imperial supremacy. In
other words, we ask that laws rclat-
ing to Ireland alone shall be made by
a popularity elected assembly sitting in
Ireland having leisure to deal with
| the necessities of the case, and pos
! sessing first-hand knowledge of them;
and that responsibility for the admin
istration OF Ireland shall be conflded
to ministry chosen by Ireland. and
going out Of office when Irish public
sentiment demands q change. With
this "rcasonable proposal he contrasts
the unrcasona bleness Of the present
system, under which Ireland is gov
erned by a Parliament, five -sixths Of
whose members have no knowledge Of
her special circumstances, her poverty.
her agricultural people. "Fhat under
zone country shall be administered by
! a dozen ministers, each with his Par
liamentary subordinate, while In the
other the Chief Secretary shall cxer-
oise at once the functions of the Home
Secretary, of the Minister for Educa-
tion, of the Minister for Agriculture.
Of the Minister for Public Works, of
the President OF the Local Govern
ment Board; that. in fact, all the OF
fees which a series Of Engishmen,
Wclshmen and Scotchmen perform for
Great Britain shall be united for Ire
land in the person Of one Minister,
who may be Scotch, Welsh or Eng
l lish, but never Irish and whom Ire
land has no voice in selccting-surely
this also is contrary to common sense
He proceeds to say that such q, regime
is also contrary to the usage Of the
British Empire, and appeals to Eng
land to bring her policy in Ireland into
conformity with her own record. The
attempts made by England to exter-
inmate tho Irish race were not the
wav to win loyalty. Lord Morley
said finely the other day that ireland
had suffered as much from an absen-
tee Parliament as from absentee land.
lords. The complaint is no new one
The Earl of Kildare wrote to Cardina
Wolsey: You hear Of a case as j,
were in a dream, and feel not tho
smart that vcxcth US. We ask, al
> tho Earl of Kildare asked, for d Gov
ernment more closely in touch with
more quickly responsive to, the needs
of ireland, What we mean by Home
Rule is the continuous government OF
ireland according to Irish ideas car
ried ont bv Irish Ministers responsible
TO the Irish people-scrvants OF tht
= Crown. but not holding office at the
w, of Parliament in Westminster
, In this connection it may be mentioned
I that fifteen thousand Orangemen as
sembled at Ballymena in County An
q trim recently to voice the protest O.
Ulster against Home Rule being inn