Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-07-12
Binders Are Taken From Eyes
of Thinking English
Votes.
CarsOn's Trip Through England
and Scotland an Absolute
Failure.
PROTESTANTS FAVOR HOME RULE

The Marconi affair is dead and
buried-so dead indeed that not
even the most persistent of Lord
Northcliffe's sensational papers can
make any more political capital out
of it, but has to worry through the
silly season on a diet of suffragettc
news and Ulster revelations, cables
an American correspondent from
London. The Marconi scandal has,
however, done some good jnasfar as
1t has opened the eyes of all thinking
English voters-who by the way
are not very numerous-to the evils
of party politics, or as they are
called in America, machine politics.
And never have English voters wit
messed such a display of bare
faced hypocrisy in politics
There is a growing demand among
Liberals that the Government ought
to arrest Sir Edward Carson and
place him on trial for high treason,
a demand which has even found ex-
preston in the House of Commons.
In various papers cartoonists have
depicted the Government in the act
of arresting suffragettes, but per-
mitting king" Carson and consorts
to go free, even now that the former
has openly hurled defiance at the
Government and challenged the
Cabinet to have him put under
arrest for melting the populace to
arms.
One Of the reasons why the Gov
ernment has done nothing to clip the
wings of their hot-headed enemy,
who proved such a valuable friend
in his professional capacity in a
lawsuit arising out of the Marconi
affair, is perhaps that the recent
trip of Sir Edward through England
and Scotland to arouse the voters
against home rule proved such en-
absolute failure. while another ia
the one I stated in my last cable
letter, that no matter how eager the
Orangemen of Ulster are to fight.
they will find nobody on whom to
use their more or less wooden rifles.
In the meantime the agitation
against home rule is carried on in
many forms all over England,
though evidence is not lacking of
the apathy of the voters in regard
to this question. The conviction
that England will sooner or later
have to transform herself into a
number of self-governing COM
munities with an imperial Parlia-
ment at Westminster to decide only
affairs of national interest is slowly
gaining ground, and those who see
in the granting of home rule to
Ireland the first step in this direc-
tfon will OF course do nothing to
delay natural evolution.
On the Tory side there is an alb
solute lack of arguments against
those who hold such a view, as it.
would be an obvious folly to claim
that IL is detrimental to patriotism
as long as the German empire and
the United States are eloquent proof
that citizens of a federated country
are in every way as patriotic as
citizens of undivided countries.
The favorlte argument against
home rule for Ireland still remains
that II is considered dangerous to
the religious liberties and spiritual
welfare of the Emerald Isle. that
the measure is essentially a matter
of religion and that its establish
ment would mean the oppressive and
intolerant rule of the Roman Cath
Ollie church, and that no guarantee
has been given that Protestants will
not be molested. But even this
argument has lost its strength since
a Protestant member of the House
of Commons was elected by Nation
alist voters and since hundreds of
Protestants In Ulster have declared
publicly that they have absolutely
no fears In this direction.