The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-15
abuse, disorder, incendiarism.

J By carefully executed coup at 8
time when sufficient majority mem
bers of the house were absent to give
them temporary advantage they voted
an amendment to the Home Rule which
by refusing funds necessary to the es-
Enlistment of the Irish government
practically defeated Home Rule.
This was not a matter of principle,
but seeking for parliamentary adj
vantage, because in principle the men
who supported the plan to give Ireland
twelve million pounds instead of
thirty millions, would have voted to
give her not one penny
| The idea was simply to catch Mr..
| Asquith at disadvantages; to force
a resignation of the British cabinet by
refusal of the house to support it's
measures.
According to all precedent this is
what would have happened The Home
Rule bill would not only have been
killed, but what is of vital Importance
to all Europe, England would have
been forced into a most serious Euro
pean crisis with a new ministry; one
which was unfamiliar with the diplo-
matte crisis that might mean war, and
one untried.
A cheap trick and a logical one for
the men who had gone up and down the
country preaching armed resistance to
an act of parliament
1t was a situation which called for
strong men. Asquith and his cabinet
are strong men. Rather than leave
the country unprepared in the Euro
pean war crisis they ignored all prece-
dent and did not resign.
The rioting and the adjournment of |
paliament until Monday followed.
AT that time the amendment by |
which the cabinet was defeated will |
come up for a reconsideration. The
ministry's supporters will in all proba-
bility be in the majority, and unless the
Obstetrics persist in their rioting the
chances are that Home Rule will be
saved.
That it should be no man in Amer
lea questions.
The greatness of Great Britain is
not due to England's greatness. 1t is
due to the greatness of her colonies.
Canada has made the progress which
she has made through having free
hand in the control of her own affairs
We of North Idaho can see some
thing of what it means to have our
lave made hv q parliamentary bodv
whose interests are foreign to our own,
even if we do have some representation
in South Idaho's legislature.
We can conceive how much more
hateful and how throttling would be a
condition in which the administration
lion of South Idaho.
That is the situation which makes
Home Rule imperative for Ireland. 1t
IS the demand of over threefourths of
he people of that oppressed nation
On the other hand Home Rule is op-
posed by absentee landlords, by men of
wealth who escape the burden of tax
alton which keeps Ireland poor, and l
3y portion of that Ulster population
which differs from the majority of t
IRISH in religious faith.
That religion doesn't enter into the 8
question is shown by the fact that the q
great leaders of the Home Rule move t
nent have almost all been Professionals.
Local Irishmen who have been raised
n Protestant neighborhoods in the old
tell the Mirror that there
S no real feeling between the two par Z
les except that which is raised by Q
gitators from the landlordists ranks 2
nd we are inclined to believe them. i
The fact that the antagonists of a
Home Rule will stop at nothing to
ain their point is shown in their act
f preaching civil war; in their attempt
0 leave England at the mercy of a
reat European crisis in the hands A
an inexperienced ministry. n
They are a menace to Great Britain b.
nd it is the fervent hope, not only of Ct
oyal Irishmen, but of loyal Britons,
f lovers of liberty and economic re- m
,rmers everywhere, that on Monday hi
ext the government may win most ST
ecisive parliamentary battle in the hi
ause of justice and right. SC
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