The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1914-09-03

ive-sixths of all Ireland have calmly
decided that Home Rule is to be es
tablished in Ireland and the frantic
appeal to force in Ulster may hurt the
heads of Catholic workmen in Belfast
but 1t will not stop the setting up O.
he Parliament at Dublin.
When one goes beyond the state.
ment Of the facts of today to sugges,
the story of tomorrow entrance is
made into the realm of prophecy. Ye,
even entrance there must be adven
tured If the making of tomorrow's
world is to have full consideration. Al
least glance across the threshold
may be taken.
No Persecution, Says Asquith.
Upon the third reading of the Home
Rule bill in the House Of Commons
Mr.. Asquith, the Prime Minister, said.
Because we have faith and trust in
the patriotism and common sense o.
our Irish fellow citizens, we do no;
believe there would be any danger
under Home Rule of either religious
Or political persecution or oppression"
II. he added, the opposition could show
there would be a real danger of this
kind, they would have not only the
Governments sympathy. but its sup
port. The reply Of the Ulster Protes.
tants is an emphatic refusal to accept
the Prime Minister'S conclusion for
the reason, they say. that everything
in the past and present history of the
Nationalist justifies it in holding the
opposite conclusion. And there the
case rests. Whether the five-sixths
of the Irish people represented at Dub
lin are to be bad boys cannot be finally
determined until they get the chance
to be bad boys. The Parliamentary
bill gives them the chance.
Relics Of Irish ParIiaments.
In the National Museum at Dublin
are the robes worn by the Right Hon.
orable John Foster Baron OrieD, the
last speaker Of the Irish House Of
Commons. the speakers chair and the
mace, the symbol of legislative au.
thority. These will be used by the
speaker Of the new House of Com
mons. After the British Parliament
had abolished the Irish Parliament the
Irish speaker was asked to hand over
the mace to the authorities in Dublin
Castle. He declined, saying that he
would never surrender the mace tc
any one but the body from whom he
had received it. Entrusted to the
Dublin Museum for safe-keeping. it is
today the property Of the speakers
descendants.
John Redmond Probable Premier.
Armed with the symbol of authority
the new national assembly will take
up the work of legislating for it's own
people. John Redmond, the National
list leader, will doubtless form the frs
Irish ministry. He belongs by birth
and training to the landed class anC
all his instincts are towards modera
ton. The Nationalist, now a soXl
body, will divide in their advocacy ci
protection, free trade and other poll
cies. Measures for the agricultural,
industrial, social and educational
amelioration of Ireland, now of ne,
cessity receiving scant consideration
in the Imperial Parliament at London
will have large attention. Ireland al
Dublin will administer, well or i'll onl:
the future may show, her own affairs
To those who believe that selfgov
eminent is better even than good gov.
eminent. tomorrow's world will b,
improved by the political coming
the new Ireland.
Copyright. 1918. bv Joseph B. Bowles)