The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-04-13
Irish Party Lined up for Final
Charge in Great Battle for
Self Government.
All Apprehension as to Fate of
Bill at Rest-Conceded That
Passage is Certain.
Great Meeting at Dublin Shows
Sentiment of the Country is
for Home Rule.

The signs for the success of
Home Rule measure that will be sat-
isfactory in every way were never
brighter than they are on the eve of
the parliamentary crisis. T. P. O'Con-
nor in his special London cable of
April to the Chicago Tribune says:
With the passing of the coal strike
the Home Rule question once more
takes first place in the thought Of
British statesmen. The negotiations
between cabinet and the Irish leaders
have succeeded in reconciling all
opinions and in producing a large
generous measure of full self-govern-
ment for Ireland.
The two Irish parties are playing
their great card before the entrance
to the battle. The meeting in Dub
lin last Sunday was gigantic Sue
cess attesting first that the over
whelming mass of Irish opinion de-
mands Home Rule, and, secondly, es-
tablishing the position of Redmond
and his party to speak for the nation
and to demand a measure which
meets their approval. This meeting
in its springtide Of national enthusi-
asm and confidence in the party, SUBJ
merges the crank, sham extremist
and traitor, and assures the accept
ance of the bill at the coming con-
vention.
Bill Certain Of Passage.
All apprehension, real or false,
with regard to the decision of that
body on the bill to be introduced by
Asquith and accepted by Redmond,
may be dismissed. Not 200, perhaps
not a dozen men, will be found out
of the 5000 summoned to the con-
vention to raise any protest against
Redmond and the party's decision.
The last card of the tories will be
a counter meeting in Belfast, Tues
day. This undoubtedly will be large,
as vast sums have been spent on
special trains and other devices to
bring people from long distances
without expense to them.
1t is expected that the speeches
will be violent and contain yelled ap-
peals for forcible resistance to the
will of parliament, but such appeals
are calculated, especially at this mo-
ment, to exasperate English opinion,
particularly among the working
classes.
Mans Case Unfortunate.
The prosecution of Tom Mann and
other syndicatists for similar appeals
are regarded by even strong friends
of the government as unfortunate,
though probably forced on them by
the open challenge Of the syndicat-
lists and the evaporation of English
opinion in the face of the tremen.
dous risk of a national strike and a
widespread disturbance as possible
consequence.
This evaporation was increased
by the immunity extended to Orange
peers and the privy councillor who
use the same language and the same
indictments in Ulster, and the cry is
rising up that if poor people are
prosecuted for violent language rich
people should get the same measure
of even-handed justice.
No appeal more profoundly affects
the English workingmen, who hate,
above all things, any suspicion of one
law for the rich and another for the
poor.
Ulster men who know the country
we'll laugh to scorn all Orange stories
of secret drillings, importation of
arms and violent threats. All were
heard in previous stages Of the Irish
struggle, especially when the Irish
church was disestablished, and every
body knows that if these threats
ended in words forty years ago they
will do so more certainly now since
the destruction Of landlord power in
Ulster and the rapid growth of a
strong democratic and even social
istic feeling among the workingmen
Of Belfast.