The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-06-28
Home Rule Measure Will Soon Be
Before That Body a Second
Time for Action.
Another "Whirlwind Campaign" by
Carson and His Merry Men
Through Ulster.
Loyalty of the Irish People is Evi-
denced by the Growth of the
Home Rule Fund.

BY the time these notes are pub
lished, the Home Rule bill will have
passed it's second reading, for the Sec
ond time, in the House of Commons,
and before many days it will be sent
a second time to the House of Lords.
Another WhirIwind Campaign.
There are arms in Ulster, but Ul-
ster is not yet in arms. The seizures
of Italian rifles at Belfast and Dublin
have only served for amusement for
the British people. Generalissimo
Carson and his merry men have no
intention of flying to the tented field
as yet. Instead, they are all going
on sort of circus tour in Great Brit
ain, the whole lot of them. They are
to leave the House of Commons after
the division on the second reading of
the Home Rule bill, and then proceed
to address series of meetings in
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Norwich
and Bristol. The Ulster bluster means
no more than talk and bluff, for the
present, at all events. Mr.. Garvin
assures Us that this fiye,rdays vs., cum
paign by the Ulster GeneralissimO
and his staff is to be the greatest
thing ON record of its kind. No ex-
pense is to be spared, and the Tory
press may be trusted to boom it as
never political campaign was doomed.
But 1t is foredoomed to failure as
complete as that of the Lancashire
"whirlwind campaign" which followed
covenant week" Once Nationalist
Ireland got the car Of Great Britain,
the cause of ascendancy in Ireland
was doomed, and all the rhetoric Of
the Carsons and the Campbells and
the Craigs, backed by cast-off Italian
rifles or wooden guns, cannot save it.
The answer to the new whirlwind
campaign of the CarsOnites Is the
welcome announcement that Mr.. John
Redmond, NJ p, and his first lieu
tenants, Messrs. John Dillon, T. P.
O'Connor and Joseph Devlin, M. P.s.,
will follow the Ulster brigade from
Glasgow to Bristol. They will repel
the attacks of the champions Of union
ism, and once again state Ireland's
case for Home Rule. Mr.. Redmond
and Mr.. Devlin will speak at Glas-
gov; Mr.. T. P. O'Connor at Edin-
burgh; Mr.. Redmond at Leeds; Mr..
Devlin at Norwich; and Mr.. John
Dillon at Bristol, at meeting at
which Mr.. Birrell, the chief secretary
for Ireland, will also speak. These
counter-meetings are bound to have a
powerful effect in stimulating and
consolidating public opinion in the
country in favor Of Home Rule.
The Home Rule Fund.
If any argument were wanting to
command the support of the Home
Rule fund to the Irish people, the an
nouncement of this new Unionist cam
paign should be sufficient. Here is
Mr. Garvin's outline of the Tory plans
in the Pail Mall Gazette of June 5th:
"The opposition have a great op-
portunity. BY persistence in criti-
cism of the House, by a vigorous cam.
paign Of protest and exposure in the
country, they can force an appeal to
the electors in spite of the govern.
ment's majority Of LOG which is no
longer attainable and only exists upon
paper"
So, If Garvin speaks by the book,
it is to the Home Rule campaign in
Great Britain that the Tories look to
defeat the government. That is why
the Tory party is straining every
nerve to help the Belfast brigade to
bluff the electors. Once again, the
campaign Of calumny is in full swing
and the lie factories are working day
and night. Home Rulers cannot com
plain. They know that ascendancy is
i fighting for its life in Ireland, and
that Toryism in England is in desper
alton. But it is for Ireland to see
that the Irish Party has at it's com
uand the means necessary to NEE