The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-10
RESOLUTIONS BY MAIL
Cable Rate Too High, Declare House
Friends of Ireland.

After securing rating as to the
cost of cabling their congratulations
on home rule by Ireland, members of
the Kansas legislature have decided
to send the words of good cheer by
mail instead of by wire. In the pas
sage of the resolution, Speaker w. l..
Brown was one of the principal advo-
Gates for its passage.
me concurrent resolution, adopted
by both houses. reads:
Whereas, For centuries the people
or long oppressed Ireland have hero
lcally struggled for home rule (self
government) from the most distressing
and 1mpoVeriShing foreign rule, at a
sacrifice of home, life and property,
that made the greater portion of her
noblest sons and daughters exiles,
most of whom took refuge in this fair
land of liberty and prosperity, in the
settlement, development and mainte-
nance of which they have given their
Drawn, brain and the most glorious
heroic service on field, forum and all
the pursuits of our greatest achieve
mentS, demonstrating what they were
capable of doing under the most en-
barrassing conditions, where given OPP
portunity to demonstrate their chival-
ric qualities of mind, heart and physi-
cal proves, to do for others what they
have persistently sought to do for
themselves. at home, through ages of
inhuman denial, and
Whereas, The British parliament,
through the popular demand of it's
subjects and the able craftsmanship
of Premier Asquith and the champion
ship of Hon. Winston Churchill, fol-
lowing the peerless demands of that
grand old man, William Ewart Glad
stone, and Hon. Charles Stewart Far
nell, pursued by the gallant and able
Irish leader, Hon. John Redmond, has
at last recognized the appeal for Irish
home rule, and granted the same by
the second passage of the home rule
bill, by an overwhelming majority of
one hundred and ten, which insures its
final passage into law, thereby restor-
ing to Ireland it's own management
and parliament. to make it's laws and
direct it's affairs, therefore be it
Resolved, By the legislature of
Kansas. the house and senate concur
ring therein. That we congratulate the
people of Ireland on the attainment
of their long denied right to self gov
eminent, and we congratulate the
British parliament upon the granting
of home rule to Ireland, thereby
commencing itself to the civilized
world, and bringing good fellowship
and satisfaction to a deserving people,
whose fidelity may preserve in the flu
ture, as it has in the past, the integ-
rity of that great advancing empire,
and be it further
Resolved, That we congratulate
Hon. John Redmond and his conpa-
triots, and the Hon. Premier H. H
Asquith, Hon. Winston Churchill and
Hon. Lloyd George upon their able
craftsmanship and progressive victory
in procuring for Ireland and its long
denied right to home rule and estab-
fishing the fundamental principles of
our great United States in the British
dominions; the right of the people to
govern themselves, and be it further
Resolved, That duly verified copy
of this concurrent whereas and reso-
lutions be at once mailed by the sec
rotary of state to Hon. John Redmo nd
and Premier H. H. AsGuith, in Pariia-
ment, now in session, in London, Eng
land and the same be signed by the
president of the senate and speaker
of the house. AN d attested by their see
retaries and approved by the COVER
nor IS.