Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-01-28
Home Rule Practically Admit
ted Sure to Be the First
Bill.
Ulster BIuster and Armed Re-
sistance Given Deadly
Blow.
The TORY Fight IS WEAKER

The meeting of the first Cabinet
Council on Friday marked the real
beginning of active business in the
great political battle which will
come to a crisis in the next British
Parliament. This entrance of
realities into politics has done much
TO end the era of wild speculation
and flapdoodle and threats by the
Tory party. Already the situation
Ulster bluster about armed re-
sistance to home rule got a deadly
blow through the special corre-
spondent of the Daily Mail revealing
that all of the stories about the
purchase of arms on the continent
we're fabrication. The signs null
tiply all round that home rule is
inevitable and thai the chief busi-
ness cf the Tories will be to arrange
such terms as will secure equality
and justice to the Protestant minor
ity. No such guarantees are ncces-
sary as a matter of fact, but the
Irish leaders are ready to accept any
proposal in their desire to reconcile
all of the Irishmen and begin home
rule with a united national effort to
rebuild the Irish nation.
The most remarkable incident of
the week was the letter of Lord
Courtney, formerly Deputy Speaker
Of the House of Commons and one
of the most important of the Lib
erals who split with William f..
Gladstone on home rule. Courtney
now accepts home r2ie as inevitable
and near at hand and only stipulates
that proportional representation, his
favorite doctrine for many years,
should be given an experiment in
Ireland.
Redmond, speaking, at "a great
banquet in Dublin given to cele-
brate the success of his mission in
America, gave cordial reception to
this suggestion. 1t is remarkable
also that, without special pressure
by the Irish party or any large
change of views, the Liberal and
Irish leaders having had only few
communications for weeks, every
body accepts the proposal that the
home rule bill be made the first
business of the session of Parlia-
ment next year. The Tories attempt
ed to make a diversion and trouble
by suggesting that such a priority
of home rule over the Welsh church
6isestablishment measure might pro-
duce o revolt of the Welshmen, but
the Welshmen repudiate these re-
ports.
In O couple of weeks from now
Redmond and the Liberal leaders
will certainly be in consultation in
reference to the details of the new
home rule bill. The negotiations
are not without difficulties, espe-
cially in reference to the new finan-
cial arrangements between the
two countries, but with good will
and good sense on both sides and
the immense bond of the common
campaign against the House OF
Lords there is little doubt that the
two sides will find satisfactory
compromise. Evidently the Tories
are disorganized and divided and do
not show any sign of putting up any
big fight on the Lords veto.
T. p. O'Connor, M. p, who has
just returned from a brief visit in
ireland, found everybody there in
exuberant spirits, partly because OF
the recent events and the approach
of home rule and partly because OF
the immense 'riumphs over the
O'Brien-Healy factionists. All oi
the Liberals are equally optimistic
and, in short, the new session OF
Parliament opens with higher hopes
than for any time since the Glad
stone and Parnell settlement for
every Irish problem.