The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-05-02

of state for war rendered vacant by
the regrettable resignation of Col
onel Seely, on 1T 1reland's best and
most devotel The Tories
offered var, b: refusing
to fight. Bue~ ST. s. that
the real reason wa>e ccxc..
afraid to face the prin- pxes.
either on the home rule bill Or 4
issue of the Army versus the People.
which their intriguing and plotting
forced to the front. The house will
give the premier welcome back
worthy of the esteem in which it
holds him, and, with his strong and
steady hand at the helm, there need
be little fear as to the future of the
government ship and the precious
cargo with which it is freighted. It
would. however, be foolish to ignore
the fact that all will not be plain sail
ing. Every home ruler anticipated
that the greatest difficulties for the
Bill would arise the nearer it ap-
preached to the statute book. But
every Irish home ruler is convinced
that the Irish cause cannot be in bet
ter hands than those of Mr.. John
Redmond and his colleagues of the
irish party.
''Ulster'' and Home Rule.
A well-informed Belfast cores
pondent says that the failure of the
Tory plot to capture the army for
Carsonism has had very SOLDERING
effect in Belfast, and that, now that
the "Volunteers" realize that the
army will most certainly be en-
ployed, if necessary, to help the civil
power to maintain law and order,
their ardor, wherever any existed,
has cooled almost to freezing point,
and the task before their leader is a
formidable one if the pretense Of "a
province in arms" against home rule
is to be kept up any longer. Mr..
Devlin, M. p, has persistently main
tanned that Carsonism was gigantic
and expensive game Of bluff, and you
cannot get any other impression from
the most careful and impartial in
vestigation on the spot. When you
find men high in the ranks of the
Carsonite "army" denouncing the
whole affair as damned rot" it is
not easy to get outsiders who are ex-
ceptionally well-informed as to every
move in the game to take it at the
valuation of S'r Edward Carson and
the London Tory press. Ask any
prominent Nationalist or Protestant
home ruler in Ulster what would
happen if the Home Rule Bill passed
as it is, before the Concessions
were heard of, and he will tell you
that there might have been some
grumbling, perhaps some rioting, but
that the overwhelming majority of
Ulster Unionists would have accept
ed the inevitable, and set to work to
make the best of it. It is stated that
Sir Edward Carson feels keenly the
difficulty of his position, and that
he would be glad to find a way out
which would "save his face" The
CONCESSIONS afforded him a splen.
did opportunity, but his denunciation
of them as "a hypocritical sham" and
as "a ticket-of-leave for Ulster fol-
six years." makes it difficult for him
to retreat along those lines. Mean
while the tories are growing sicker
and sicker of home rule, and of Car
sonism, and it is very remarkable in
deed to find appeals for peace issuing
from Protestant ecclesiastics in "Ul-
ster" who have hitherto been promi-
nently associated with the Carsonite
campaign.
Ireland and the Party.
Never in the history of the Irish
party has there been such an out.
pouring of resolutions of confidence
in the party and its leader as during
the past few weeks. From all parts
of Ireland. public bodies of every de.
scription-County councils, towi
councils. rural district councils,
boards Of guardians, branches of the
United Irish league. divisions of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians,
branches of the Irish National For.
esters, town tenants associations,
farmers associations, labor organiza-
tions, and so forth-resolutions have
been made. and are still forthcoming,
pledging full trust and confidence in
Mr.. Redmond and the party, now and
in the future. This, with a record
subscription to the Home rule fund,
is Ireland's answer to those who as
sert that she is weakening in her de-
mand for home rule. The other day.
the special correspondent of the Tory
Morning Post" the London organ
of Carsonism, alluding to the spon-
taneous movement in Derry City for
the formation of Irish National Vol
unteers, warned the unionist party
not to mistake the significance Of this
sign of the times. He was right. But
a much greater mistake would be fol
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