The Hayti herald., 1914-01-15

| flve-sixths of ell ireland have calmly
| decided that Home Rule is to be es.
tablfshed 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 OF
the Parliament at Dublin.
When one goes beyond the state.
ment Of the facts of today to suggest
the story Of tomorrow entrance is
made into the realm of prophecy. Yet
even entrance there must be adyen.
tured IL the making of tomorrow
world fs to have full consideration. AT
least a 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 OF
our Irish fellow citizens, we do not
believe there would be any danger
under Home Rule Of either religious
or political persecution or oppression. u
II, he added, the opposition could show
there would be 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
Nationalists 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 spe Iker's 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 to
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 first
Irish ministry. He belongs by birth
and training to the landed class and
all his instincts are towards modera
tion. The Nationalists, now a solid
body, will divide in their advocacy OF
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 only
the future may show, her own affairs.
To those WHO believe that self-gov.
ernment is better even than good gov.
ernment, tomorrow's world will be
improved by the political coming OF
the new Ireland.
Copyright 1918. by Joseph B. Bowles)