Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-11-27
John Redmond Busy Explaining to
People of England.
CAMPAIGN OVER GREAT BRITAIN
Says He is Meeting with Friendly
Reception Generally.
HARCoURT ON SAME PLATFORM
CoIoniaI secretary Accompanies MIR.
RedmOnd in MidIands, and other
Liberal ministers seen
with Him.


nauonalists are playing a waiting game
I'm the autumn session of Parliament. The
usually turbulent little band, who sit be-
low the gRngwRy in the House OF Com
mons, have kept themselves in hand so
far, although they are deeply interested
in the insurance bill which is occupying
all the time of tho house.
william O'Brien and his handful of fol-
lowers try sometimes to excite their fel-
low countrymen by engaging I'm sarcasm
at their expense, but without success.
Even the alleged atrocities OF the Italian
troops in Tripoli. which generally fill
William Redmond with a desire to find
out what the foreign secretary knows
about IL and what the Government In
tends to do, has not aroused the occu-
pants OF the national benches. They are
quietly waiting for 1873 "Ireland's year."
as they call It,
/ The nationalist is everybody's friend
this winter. He is busy in the lobby
where the members gather TO gossip.
making converts to the cause OF home
rule and keeping wavering liberals from
bolting from policy TO which some OF
their constituents are opposed
While the rank ana file OF the party
are doing missionary work in the lobby,
the leader. John Redmond, is busy e1-
planning home rule TO the people OF Eng
land. The nationalists say that when the
English army knows what Ireland de-
lnands, opposition to home rule will fade
away.
RedmOnd's Campaign.
Mr.. Redmond's campaign already has
extended from Scotland In the north to
the extreme south of England.
The colonial secretary, Lewis Earcourt,
accompanied Mr.. Redmond in the mid
lands. and at other places ministers and
liberal leaders have sat with him on the
pls tform
Asked few days ago as to the progress
] OF the campaign, Mr.. Redmond replied;
"Ite going fine. have had a very
friendly reception eyerywhere The audi
sncss have shown their interest ia the
question by listening 10 my speschss.'' Z.
irhe press reports OF the meetings record
very few interruptions OF the irish leader.
OF course the unionists, and especially
the Ulster unioniBts, who have declared
through their leader, Sir Edward Carson,
that under, no circumstances viii they
accept home rule, have sn explanation
OF this. They say that Mr. Redmond's
friendly reception is accounted for by the
fact that he breaches a very different
story In England from that which he and
his followers urge In America and ireland.
In England, they cay. the nationalist
policy IL painted as a simple self-govern-
ment with no idea of separation from
England. while In America and Ireland
1t is home rule with absolute independ-
ence
\ Cabinet Works on Bill.
Neither Mr.. Redmond nor other Sup
porters of home rule made any reference
10 the details OF the proposed bill IN their
speeches. In fact they have not even
touched on the broad outline of the meas
ure which it Is generally known has
been decided upon. A committee OF the
cabinet is now working on the details.
In an interview MIR. Redmond said II
was altogether too early 20 talk OF the
bill itself, adding, I'VE are at present too
busy trying TO convert the people of
England to the principle OF the home
rule."
To do this the Irish leader must in the
first place convince Engiishmen, and par
ticulariy the nonoonformist Englishman,
that under home rule there viii be no
discrimination against the Irish Prot
estsnt. In all his speeches, Mr. Richmond
has pressed this point.
"If Protestants are not satisfied with
experiences OF the-past." he says 'they
can have safeguards placed in the bill
itself"
Mr.. Redmond and other Irish members
who are touring England impress upon
their audiences that what Ireland de-
Fnands ia not separation, but ''the right
OF managing its own local affairs in a
subordinate place, subject to the SUI
premacy OF the imperial Parliament-a
demand that has never been made by any
community OF white men In the empire
and rsfused--except in the case OF Ire
land"
Meaning of Local Issues.
Local affairs arc taken TO mean land
.sducadon, local government, transit
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