The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-27
While the Rank and File of Party Does Mission
 ary Work
IRISH NATIONALISTS
 PLAY WAITING GAME
Unionists Declare Redmond Breaches Different Story in Egland From
 What Followers Urge in
 America and Ireland

London, November 26.-The Irish nation alists are playing a waiting game in the autumn session of parliament. The us ually turbulent little band who sit below the gangway in the house of commons have kept themselves in hand so far, all though they are deeply interested in the insurance bill which is occupying all the lime of the house.
 William O'Brfen and his handful of followers try sometimes to excite their fellow countrymen by engaging in sar- casm at others expense, but without suc- cess. Even the alleged atrocities of the Italian troops in Tripoii, a subject which generally fills William Redmond with de- sire to find out what the foreign secre- tary knows about it, and what the gov ernment intends to do, has not aroused the occupants of the nationalist benches They are quietly waiting for 1912, Ire lands year., as they call it.
 The nationalist is everybody's friend this winter. He is busy in. the lobby where fhe members gather to gossip, making converts to the cause of home rule and keeping wavering liberals from boIting from policy to which some of their con- Etituents are opposed. While the rank and file of the party are doing missionary work in the lobby, the leader. John Redmond, is busy ex- plaining home rule to the people of Eng land.
 The nationalsts say that when the Eng fish really know what Ireland demands opposition to home rule will fade away.
 MT. Redmond's campaign already has extended from Scotland in the north to the extreme south of England
 The colonial secretary, Lewis Harcourt, accompanied by MT. Redmond in the mid lands, and at other places ministerialists and liberals have occupied seats with him on the platform.
 Redmond Very Optimistic
 Asked a few days ago as to the pro- gress of the campaign. MT. Redmond res plied
 ''It's doing fine. I have had very friend ly receptions everywhere. The audiences have shown their interest in the ques- tion by listening to my speeches"
 The newspaper reports of the meetings record very few interruptions of the Irish leader.
 The unionists and especially the Ulster unionists who have declared through their leader, Sir Edward Carson, that under no circumstances will they accept home rule. however. have an explanation of this. They say that MT. Redmond's s friendly reception is accounted for by the fact that he breaches a very different story in England from that which his fol- lowers urge in America and Ireland. In England they say the nationalist policy is painted as simple self government with no idea of separation from England, while in America and Ireland 1t is home rule with absolute independence.
 Neither Mir. Redmond nor other sup porters of home rule have made any ref frence to the details of the proposed bill in their speeches. They have not even touched on the broad outline of the meas ure, however, which it is generally known has been decided upon.
 A committee of the cabinet Is now working on the details. In an interview MT. Redmond said 1t was altogether too early to talk of the bill itself, adding:
 Trying to Convert People
 we are at present too busy trying to convert the people of England to the principle of home rule"
 ' To do this the Irish leader must in ttle HrSt pidce convince EngHSnmen, and particularly the non-conformist English man. that under home rule there will be no discrimination against the Irish Protestant.
 In all of his speeches MT. Redmond has pressed this point: 'If Protestants are not satisfied with experiences of the past, they can have safeguards placed in the bill itself
 MT. Redmond and other Irish members who are touring England impress upon their audiences that what Ireland de- hands is not separation, but ..the right of managing her own local affairs in h subordinate place, subject to the su- premacy of the imperial parliament
 It Is demand that has never been made by any community of white men in the empire, he said, land has been refused except in the case of Ireland"
 Affairs are taken to mean land, edu- cation. autonomous government trade in- siustries, taxation for municipal purposes, law aud justice, and other deyiatIons. but leaving to parliament the foreign relations with the army and navy, in- tiuding customs, imperial taxation, mat ters pertaining to the crown and colonies are amplified. As with the colonies. the imperial body would have the right of veto over the acts of the Irish legislature. This power however. is seldom used so far as the self governing colonies are concerned. Tie nationaists do not believe that the financial arrangements between Eng lane and Ireland present any serious dif- fculties. In other quarters, however this is believed to be the great dfffi- culty,. or an obstacle that will require all the ability of the financial experts of the government to overcome.
 Carson Fights Home Rule
 Sir Edward Carson and the Ulsterites likewise are fighting home rule on the alleged intolerance of the Catholics. who would, 1t Is alleged, be in d large Ina- Jority in the legislature to the Protest ants of Ulster.
 Little is heard nowadays Of the fed- eralists or ''holne rulers," who came for ward just before the last general cleo ton, but who became anti-home rulers when the cry of American dollArs'' was raised. Home rule Is being fought on general principles as 1t was in Glad- store's day but without the same amount of bitterness
 There are many, indeed. however. who believe . upionist government If in power would enlarge self government, although the unionists are shorn of power in a liberal cabinets regime.
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