Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-02-17
Separate Government viii Be
Established If Parliament
Passes Bill.

Home rule Is at last promised
by the British government, and
the power OF the house Of lords has
been 80 curtailed that its expected veto
will be only temporary. Premier AS
quith is reported as saying that he can
force the measure through within two
years despite the peers opposition.
1t has been nearly twenty years since
the last Gladstone home rule bill was
defeated in the house OF lords, the
first one of seven years earlier having
been beaten by a slight margin in the
commons. Much of the bitterness has
passed out of the fight since those days,
due In some measure to the fuller dis
cussion and the modification of ex-
IRENE views on both sides and in part
to the fact that the measure proposed
today is not 30 radical as that brought
forward by the "Grand Old Man"
The cause of home rule is much older
than Gladstone, however, or at least
than Gladstone's advocacy Of 1t. In
the beginning he was in opposition.
The fact that it had sufficient vitality
and merit to win him over and to re-
duce to impotency the historic house
of peers that stood in its way is an
other evidence of the power of truth
finally to triumph over all obstacles
Back in the eighteenth century Ire
land had a parliament sitting In Dub.
lin. This was ended by the act of I'M
ion, which became effective In 1901
Irishmen have always claimed that the
Dublin parliament which adopted this
act of union was bribed.
The agitation for the restoration of
the irish parliament has grown in vol.
urne during the century that has inter-
yened. Daniel O'Connelrs agitation
for the repeal of the union back in. the
forties was a forerunner of the modern
movement. O'Conneli succeeded In hav-
fnR a motion To dissolve the union pass
ed by the municipal chamber at Dublin.
In 1871 Isaac Butt entered parlia-
ment. and with him the real home rule
cause beaan 70 take form Butt was
cousidered conservative. however. and
the more radical irish members finally
drove him to resign
The movement took definite shape In
1870. when Michael Dayitt. one Of the
most beloved Of Irish leaders. induced
Charles Stewart Parnell. Ireland's
foremoat statesman. to accent the aid
of the Revolutionary faction and push
the project as far IA possible. Mean
time the house of lords rejected n bill
favorable to the tenants. This action
was followed nv a series of boycotts
and Recommendations in ireland that
was oue,ied only nv n camnaign of
wholeaaIe evictiona ana arrests. Par
nell himself was incarcerated MS one
OF tho chief INDICATORS of the uprising.
hut his fmprisonment did not cause
him TO cease operations In organizing
concerted movement. In 1882. while
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.tons ana parneII undaunted IN their
nnrpos. at about tha Formulation of
srother NOM. rn,a nroerom Tbeir
nrona t,on. were again interrupted
s,bia t,mo q was the scandalous reve-
lst,or az tba nrivate life Of ParnelI
who hsd become m,xed nm IN the
n,sbes d,vorce case
Tn 1904 p,adstone. nv his mapnia-
cant aerorts m hehaIf NJ the irish. sue
1890, A., bsvtno a h,ii naasad INV the
hou.a az commona onIv 10 have n
L,,i.6 nv t,,a ropaa OF lords
1he ADVENT OF Sonn Il. heumono.
Since that time the Irish leaders
have kept MP their propaganda and
awaited their opportunity. During the
Boer war and the Conservative ascend
ancy It was impossible to do SO much,
but with the return Of the Liberals to