Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-05-24
People Everywhere Have Faith
i'm John Redmond and
His Party.
Triumph of Home Rule Beyond
Any Chance of Doubt or
Disaster.
ORANGE LEADERS WITHOUT HOPE


the deadly fight over the war spoils
between the Balkan allies, which
threatened the peace of Europe and
now offers a new problem for the
Powers to solve, cables the following
cheerful view of the political situa-
! tion in Irelnd and the triumph of
home rule:
Our politics at home is charac-
| terized by tranquil pause which al
ways comes with the departure of
Parliament on holidays and most
of the Ministers are in temporary
retirement. But politics goes on all
the same in Ireland The National
lists of Great Britain held at the end
of last week the most successful con-
vention in their history. They were
given generous hospitality by the
Lord Mayor of Dublin and all gloweu
with the enthusiastic hope of seeing
the accomplishment of their unself-
ish work for Ireland. Presiding as
have for thirty years over their
convention. have noted the same
extraordinary difference in manner,
language, and even in dress that are
also shown among the Irish people
a. home. In view of the fact that
Ireland was created by land and
ether reforms won during the last
quarter of a century, in Ireland it.
self the people are quietly confident
and everywhere are demonstrating
their faith in Redmond and his
party by enthusiastic meetings and
large subscriptions to the National
ist war chest.
Already spedAlation is active as to
the price the new Irish Government
will have to pay the Bank of Ireland
for restoring the beautiful building
In College Green to the new Irish
Parliament Great schemes of new
housing to abolish the hideous slums
and horrible sweating of Dublin and
Belfast already haunt the minds of
the men who VIII constitute the new
Irish Government. In short the
triumph of home rule and the open
ing of Parliament are now discussed
as events which have passed beyond
all chance of doubt or disaster.
Orangeism meantime has got a
straight tip from England that its
quiescence for several months is do
Ing the Tory cause some harm in
England, and once more all the old
paraphernalia has been set in motion
to stir up strife and disturbance in
Ulster. Now a newspaper has sent
"a special correspondent, whose
articles, however, are consciously or
unconscicusly a revelation of the
absurdity and hollowness of the
whole campaign Sir Edward Car
son starts a. new campaign this week,
and may perhaps indicate what are
the practical steps by which he pro-
poses to carry out the programme
of armed resistance to home rule.
II is now conceded by him and
other Orange leaders that no hope
of defeating home rule in England
is possible All the Irish Tories bit
terly complain that in England they
can not get audiences even to listen
to their imaginary terrors for their
religious liberties under home rule.
Two by-elections in England are
helping to make events lively during
the vacation. 1t is a remarkable
fact that in neither contest does
either side dwell specially on the
home rule struggle. In the New
market division of Cambridgeshire,
which outside of Newmarket, the
capital of English sporting events,
consists OF a great agricultural
population, the insurance act, wages
of laborers and land reform exclude
all other subjects. Imported Orange
missionaries confess they can not
get even a hearing. This election,
In which the Liberal candidate is
himself sprung from the soil and
spent his early days working as a
laborer, reveals the big hold the
question of land reform has now
taken on the Imagination of the
English countryside, and indicates
that Lloyd-George's instinct was
sound that this must be the next
work OF the Liberal party.