The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-04-08
HOPES FOR EARLY
HOME RULE VICTORY
In an Eloquent Address Irish Leader
Says the Hour of Deliv-
cry is at Hand.
He Says Veto Blocks Home Rule for
England, Scotland and Wales
as Well as for Ireland.
Is Willing to Help Those Countries
in Their Struggle Whenever
They Are Ready.

Mr.. John lIj. Redmond delivered an
eloquent address on the occasion OF
his visit to Glasgow as guest OF honor
at the ST. Patrick's Day celebration
in that city. He reviewed the argu-
ments which he has time and again
used in behalf OF Irish Rome Rule and
refuted the objections that the oppon-
ents use to justify their opposition to
it. Mr.. Redmond showed himself to
be certain OF triumph and hopeful that
victory will crown the efforts of the
Irish Party at very early date. We
quote some of the most salient pas
sages from his speech:
1T has been urged recently in the
House OF Commons by the leaders of
the opposition that the only reason the
Irish representatives are supporting
the limitation of the Veto of the House
of Lords is because we desire to get
Home Rule. Well, it is perfectly true
that we believe the Veto Of the House
of Lords is the last ramaining barrier
in our path, because we are convinced
that on the question OF Home Rule
the great mass of the British people
are now friendly and prepared to meet
our demands fairly and fully, and
naturally we are anxious to limit the
House of Lords for the sake of Home
Rule But, ladies and gentlemen, l
desire to say to you-and ii there are
any who are not Irishmen listening !
would like to impress on theln-that, If
Home Rule We're not in question at all,
do these English statesmen imagine
that we have no account to take with
the House Of Lords? The House of
Lords has destroyed, and mutilated,
and thwarted every reform proposed
ure of religious freedom for Ireland,
every measure of social reform, every
measure for the extension of civil liber-
ty The House Of Lords, today before
God and man ! say, are responsible for
every agrarian crime committed dur
ing the land war in Ireland, and L Go
not limit that to ancient history, to
past times. We want justice not mere
ly for Ireland, but we want to do our
best to get justice for the masses of
the English, Scotch and Welsh peo-
pie.
The Veto of the Lords is not mere
ly block to home Rule for Ireland,
but it is a block to Home Rule for
England, Scotland, and Wales as well.
DO you think that the English people
have got Home Rule today? There
are six or seven millions of electors
who elect their representatives. They
send them into Parliament to carry a
great measure demanded by the pco-
pie, and four hundred irresponsible and
unrepresentatiVc gentlemen in the
House Of Lords arc able to wipe out
that decision of six or seven millions
of people. No, ladies and gentlemen;
until the Veto is abolished there will
land or Wales. For my part-and I
speak for my colleagues as well as for
myself am not only a Home Ruler
for Ireland, but ! am a Home Ruler
for Scotland and for Wales and for
Englal d, whenever these countries de-
sire to obtain it. The Veto Of the
Lords stands as a block in the way Of
land reform in ireland, and we Irish
men are enthusiastically in favor of
land reform in this country. The
Veto is block to Welsh disestablish-
ment. For thirty years my colleagues
and 1 have been, by every means in
our power, supporting the demands OF
the Welsh people for disestablishment
Of the Church, and we are therefore
working for the abolition Of the Veto
to help the Welsh people in their efforts
and whenever it comes up we will be
as enthusiastically in favor of that
measure as we are for land reform in
Scotland And the veto is equally a
block to electoral reform in England,
and to all those great social measures
demanded by the English people for
the betterment of the masses. There
fore we are not in favor of the veto
being abolished merely for the sake