Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-19
DUBLIN NOT HOSTILE
No Feeling Against Throne of
England Exists.
REAL IRISH SENTIMENT
People Believe That Complete Under.
standing Is Not Far Off.
POPULARITY OF LATE KING
London Has Municipal Public House,
Council Getting Forty Per
Cent Of Profits.
REAL IRISH SENTIMENT
POPULARITY OF LATE KING
Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondents Of The Star.
LONDON, July 8, 1911.
In spite Of all the trouble in Dublin
over the lord mayors reception of
King George in opposition to the vote
OF the city council and the expressed
wishes of the nationalists. there Is nc
hostility to the throne OF England nor
its occupant. The writer has been to
some pains to ascertain the real feeling
OF 1rishmen on the subject and Is as
sured that most Of them believe that
we are on the eve of an understanding
between the democracies Of England
and Ireland, after q long and dis
as,rous estrangement. The word rec
onciltation" Is perhaps more Nexpres-
sive and conveys more TO the popular
mind. but 1t does not in reality meet
the case. To be lasting. to stand the
test of time. to build on solid. perma-
nent foundations. 1t Is essential that
home rule for Ireland must rest on
mutual appreciation. trust and respect
by the people Of both countries. Such
understanding cannot be successfully
established or laid by one country
alone. II must have its being in both.
and emphatically 1t must be evidenced
by both. That the democracy Of Great
Britain and the liberal government
thrice returned to power since 1906.
are attempting to fulfill their part of
these important conditions Is evident.
During the last visit OF the late
Kins edward and Queen Alexandra te
ireland, the corps of English news
papermen which accompanied .heL
voice the warm and hearty nature of
the welcome they received from their
Irish subjects. The kInS's popuiai ity
in Ireland was assured for many rea-
sons, not the least of which was his
Attributes as sportsman. The !risI
people love horses. they are fond of
racing and the late Kings vel
known fondness for that spirited form
of amusement greatly appealed to them.
There were other reasons. however, for
far deeper, more significant and more
enduring than these, and their exis-
tence escaped the observation of the
correspondents.
Are Keen Observers.
The Irish people are keen observers;
they ponder and read good deal. Every
peasant In Ireland knows. as q matter
of recent political history, that the late
King Edward and Queen Alexandra.
when Prince and Princess Of Wales. were
ever on terms of close and intimate per-
sonal friendship with Mr.. Gladstone,
even after he had introduced and carried
parliament his home rule BILL.
They ponder these matters and balance
them nicely. draw their deductions, and
q careful examination by the most ex-
pert logician would fail to discover any
flaw in the chain Of reasoning. from
premises to conclusion. Kings are above
politics and above parties. and SO are
was we'll known and fuiiy
appreciated also-but the fact renamed
firm in the mind of Ireland that Glad
stone was a great Englishman. who suf-
fered much for Ireland, and that in the
hour Of. his defeat, as well as OF MS trl-
umph, he was honored by the esteem and
the friendship Of the then heir apparent
and his cOnsort.
There are many Irish peasant dwell
ings where copies Of remarkable guar
tet-the Prince Of Wales and Mrs Clad
ston, Mr.. Gladstone and the princess
will be found hanging in the place OF
server unacquafnted with Irish charac-
ter, with the depth and Intensity of the
Celtic peasant feeling. sees perhaps 1T
tie in this. Its significance, for all that,
Is very great, as is also the fact. no less
true, that the self-same group Is photo
graphed upon the affecionate memory
not of thousands. but of millions Of Irish
people.
Time Is Not Yet.
Why, then. It may be asked. did not
[rishmen come forward spontaneously
md with one accord and extend a great
natl nal welcome to the sovereign? The
answer was. THE time is not yet" 1t
was laconic, perhaps 1t was cryptic. but
Irishmen In Great Britain and
elsewhere understood, but to the English
they are mot loyal"
It is amazing and. to outsiders. incom-
how utterly distasteful to
is the und of the word
''loyalists.'' 1t is not that they object
to the word in its literal sense. A loyal
st means a person devoted to his con-
stitutional sovereign. Grafton was an
IDEAL patriot, as we'll as great states
man, his memory Is loved and revered In
ireland, he was a loyalist and imperial
st in the truest sense OF the word: II
he were alive today he would not be
''loyalist' in the Irish sense Of the term.
human nature 1t is an indigenous
growth it has been going a-begging in
Ireland for a century or more.
What, then, is the secret of this insult
terable objection? It is this. and this
alone. The expression loyalty" and It's
"Sio
cendancy and persecution. and ascend.
ancy,, coming down through years Of Bit
Ter memories, stood for all that was hate
,ul to nationalist sentiment. Although
as such Is almost extinct. II
still fiaunts its other self aggressiveiy
under the name Of loyalty" THE Boyne
water" "Croppies lie down"-the people
who indulge these sentiments are loyal
sts." The unionists Orangemen. with
heir July IL celebration, label them
selves loyal"
Hate the Word "Loyal."
National SITS, perforce. must eschew the
tile. and as time went on they grew to
rate the word loyal" not because of its
Intrinsic meaning. but Of its intrinsic
party significance. Precisely the same
hing arose in connection with the ma
ional anthem. It had been allowed to
become a kind Of party tune in Ireland:
{ became the monopoly OF the ''loyalist."
Those who played 1t were dubbed loyal
n the peculiar Irish meaning Of the term,
md the nationalists, rather weakly, per-
laps, accept ID the situation. In the eyes
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