The Cairo bulletin., 1911-01-27
, UNHAPPY IRELAND.

oe coFuhdteu during the present yea
| and imediately thereafter he is al
| most sure to find himself In peel
| OF trouble. Unless all signs fail, {
home rule bin, giving to Ireland {
parliament OF her own for domestic
purposes, on College Green, Dublin
will By introduced and passed by tht
British parliament. Against this par
lament the people OF Ulster are al
ready protesting and declaring tina
rather than submit to 1t they vii
plunge the unhappy island In the
thrpes of civil war. Tney claim te
have 2 fund of 100000 and $4,000
rifles Of the Martini-IIeury type, aud
that 100000. men Of Ulster have beer
trained how to use them,
Moreover, one Captain Craig, M
r., and staunch unionist. in pubnc
speech recently advised his fellow
Orangemen to invest their money in
farms and ammunition and prepare
themselves to say to the world, the
flesh and the devil: You are not
going to make us have home rule and
we are not going to have it at any
COST"
Dr.. Elliott, the Protestant bishop OF
Fillmore, suggests that if parliament
is to, be organized In Dublin, the
northern province be given a parlia-
ment of its own, independent of the
Dublin parliament.
Two parhaments on q little island
that has 10000 square miles less area
than the state Of Tennessee and about
double the population, would be a
political absurdity as gross as one can
we'll imagine. 1t would mean a per.
petual conflict between the two sec
tons, and, as the people are more
than Is per cent Catholic, the Prot.
estant unionists would be at a great
disadvantage numerically, and many
Protestants are heartily in favor of
home rule.
Religious bigotry and intolerance
are blamed for the intense hatred that
is mutually entertained by Protestan,
and Catholic. This may be the acute
manifestation of the trouble, but there
lis a constitutional cause that is deeper
and more fundamental. This is eth
biological. Historians are aware tha,
1.-THE, Celt and the Latin alike are or
lganically incapable of that largeness
of political vision that can discern the
fact of a national state, and they are
therefore unable to form and main.
tain federated government. The or.
bit of their political vision is con.
fined to the clan or personal leader
They follow something of flesh and
blood and cannot grasp the potency
OF an idea based on mere hypoths.
sis Of universal concession. Hence in
all these lands, there were a multi
splictty Of personal leaders who had
their followers, and these leaders or
5supermen were euphemistically called
kings, some Of whom united tempo
rarily to make war on others who
.nnitd temporarily for mutual defense;
but, they had no permanent union or
federation within stable form of
government and central head, OF
supreme authority.
Conditions We're the same in Spain
before the arrival of the visigoths; in
Italy before the arrival of the Suevi;
in Greece before a Dane ascended to
the throne, ad SO throughout. Irelan /
is still Celtic. She has been invaded
but by men OF Celtic blood from Scot
land and England. and her capacity
Tor political organization is limited by
the limitations of the Celt.@
II Ireland would import few hun.
dred thousand Teutonic wives for her
sons and a few hundred thousand
husbands for her daughters, in a gen.
ration or two the island would be a
compact national entity, FIRST flower
OF the earth, first gem of the sea-"
This, Of course, is not likely to be
done, however.
The friends OF the historically
glorious isle-and they are 10 be
iouhd under every clime---earnestiy
hope that enlightenment and growing
patriotism will enable all classes,
cults and creeds to get together In one
grand effort for national liberty or
local self government In the immi
nent crisis. 1t Is now within their
grasp; but II, through fanaticisms and
fractional differences, they let the
present opportunity slip by them, an
other may not come In many lonS
day The world will then apply to
the Irish people the old pbilosopheme:
livery nation has as good govern.
ment as 1t deserves" The nation
that has bad government Is not en-
titled to a better ne.--,N ews- Scimitar
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