The Irish standard., 1913-03-22
completely his Home Rule or
4 left the ,puny infant to the

BuS2h. FL tuart Parnell found the
"Ho@e.s1 .tcast and took it to
his home to his heart and made
English bac..s straighten up to take
notice of the new crowd Of so Irish
deputies admirably schooled and dis
ciplined who brought Home Rule into
Westminster Palace in 1884. These
formidable fighters, the Parnell bri-
gade, had two terrible weapons of
warfare-their novel obstruction tao
tics and the newly organized Land
League, the project of Dillon and
Davitt. BY means of branches Of the
Land League in every hamlet even to
the last fishing village on the Con-
naught coast, a revolutionary fire was
enkindled that burned with a fierce
flame. In the House of Commons the
so deputies were persevering in per-
pleNing campaign Of speech making
that paralyzed all legislative action in
Parliament by rrolonging the most fu-
tile discussions beyond all endurance.
To talk without ceasing was the Par
nell cipher code and it succeeded ad-
mirably in veNing the opponents; for
the etiquette of those lays never per-
mitted speaker, nor chairman Of
committees to cut off the speech Of a
member. Hence the obstructionist
trick worked like an admirable dam
in a turbulent millstream.
Phenix Park.
and his season of decline. He left his
partisans in sight of the promised land
OF political liberty when the unfortu-
nate incident in his life lnarred for
ever his moral influence and dethroned
the Irish king who never wore the
crown that his talents had destined
for his glory. Everybody recalls the
assassination of Lord Cavendish and
the Phenix Park murders all ascribed
to Fenian plots. Parnell occupied a
prison cell and energetic measures of
repression We're already in allegiance
When 4. the neMssMa brpited broadcast
fthat Gladstone had held par1eying
with the notorious Irish prisoner.
Gladstone in the public press defend
ed the charge as though he were ac-
cused of a heinous crime and tried to
pass off the rumo" as a vicious cal
un1ny. But. mysteriously enough, he
presented the first reading of the
Home Rule bill of 1886 soon after the
alleged call on the imprisoned Irish
Leaders, members of the Irish peer
age and the 103 deputies constituting
the Irish Commons ceased to appear
in their accredited places at West
minister Palace Actually an Irisl,
parliament was created with its sit
tings in Dublin Castle.
Giadstone's Parliament.
This Gladstonian experimental Irish
parliament had nothing to do with in
| ternational affairs, With peace or its
! antithesis, nor with royal succession.
nor yet with postal regulations, Will,
religion nor with tariff or trading
schedules. 1t was skeleton parlia-
mert, mere plantom yet the tur-
moil. the upheaval that it produced in
England seems now almost incredible.
Home Rule was defeated but the Irish
/! members have never ceased to reclaim
I! it and were it repulsed until the crack
of doom the Irish will still clamor for
a parliament at home that will restore
Ireland once again to her honored
!; place among the Christian nations of
! the earth.
F.. Irish Nationality.
! A national tradition of a thousand
years is Ireland's unsullied patrimony
a name that reaches gloriously back
into the farthest antiquity: soil
strewn with historic relics of her an
cient supremacy, noble unmatched
collection of artistic and literary works
of skill and Of handicraft, race that
[! Cdl never DE aNQlnllatcu no matter
| how it is trampled upon. country
! that has remained undivided in all the
long course OF historical succession, a
people that has stayed steadfast tc
st. Patrick's teaching and preaching
| when heresy was rife all about them
+! behold the Irish heritage which ever
! natural position and geographical con.
ditions have combined to constitute
into an Irish nationality that no ex.
j, ternal Union, however solid it appears
can obliterate or annihilate.
! A man bought a gallon Of whisky
to take home, and by way of labe
wrote his name upon card. which
happened to be the seven Of clubs
and tied it to the handle. a friend
coming along and observing the jug
gently remarked:
| That's very careless way to leave
| that 1io,,ori"