The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-02-17
SCOTCH IN SYMPATHY
WITH IRISH CAUSE
Sixty-one Members Out of Seventy
two Favor Principle Involved
in Irish Fight.
Master of Elibank Says Ireland is
Entitled to the Right of
Self-Government.
Scottish Home Rule Coming Issue
as Result of the Present Par
liamentary Agitation.

That the struggle for Irish Home
Rule will Eesult in the establishment
of separate Parliaments for Scotland
and Wales is becoming evident Scot
into the realm of politics. While those
who are agitating it realize that Ire
lands demand should receive first con-
sideration, they are nevertheless, pre-
pairing the way for enforcing their de-
mand as soon as the stage is clear.
John O'Callaghan writing in the Bos-
ton Globe, says:
The fight on the issue OF Irish Home
Rule, which has been on the horizon
acute within the next few weeks. AL
ready the forces are lining up on both
sides, and while the discussion may
not be as keen or acrimonious as on
the occasion of the introduction of
the Gladstone bills of 1886 and 1893,
it will be sufficiently vigorous to at
tract the attention not alone OF Brit
ain and ireland, but America and other
nations as we'll.
There have been threats made by
certain leaders of the Unionist party,
| notably Sir Edward Carson, one OF
the members for Trinity College, Dub
| lin, and leader of the Irish Unionists
who number sixteen or seventeen
members in the House of Commons
out of a total membership from Ire
bcrs, that he would in the event of
Home Rule being passed, head an
army to march through Ireland from
Belfast to Cork, in opposition to Home
Rule.
| Richard McGhce, M. p, an Ulster
Presbyterian, and member or the
Irish Nationalist party, addressing a
Scotch audience, composed mainly of
| Presbyterians like himself, almost i'm
mediatcly turned Mr.. Carsons threat
into ridicule by saying that before he
and his army could leave Ulster they
would be captured and held as hos
tagcs by Ulster Presbyterans like Mr..
McGhee himself, who are NatiOnalists.
The joke cut home because the fact is
that the majority OF the inhabitants of
Ulster are sympathizers with the Ma
tional cause and the number favoring
Home Rule is daily increasing. So,
too, with the parliamentary represent
alton of the province.
Mr.. Carson's reputation thus far as
military man has not been distin-
| guished. In fact he never served a
day in the army except that of the
Dublin Castle office seekers, to which
he has belonged since he was first
managed to get his share Of the
"loaves and fishes" ever since, and is
undoubtedly aggricved because, having
become Solicitor-gencral for England
he failed to reach the bench and be
made a judge before the Tory party
fell from power in 1905.
| The people of Ireland know Mr.. Car
son as one of the most strenuous ad-
vocates of the coercion policy pursued
by the Tory party under Lord Sails
bury and Mr.. Balfour from 1SS6--With
slight interruption while Gladstone's
| government held power from 1892 to
1S95-up to six years ago. Mr.. Car
son, therefore, is fearful that he may
not attain his ambition of reaching a
high judicial position unless his party
returns to power, Of which there seems
no present probability. His early
reputation at the Irish bar was made
by his savage prosecutions Of Irish
Nationalists accused of political Of
fenses.
The Master Of Elibank, Hon. A. w
Oliphant, Scotchman, and a member
of the present Cabinet, in striking con-
trast to Mr. Carson's attitude on the
Home Rule question, spoke out
straightforwardly within couple OF
weeks past to his constituents in Mid
lothian, the seat for which was occu-
pied by the late Mr.. Gladstone up to
the time of his death. He said:
"Next year, as you know. we intend
to bear witness once more to our be-