The Irish standard., 1914-04-04

uting broadcast literature which in.
suits forty per cent of the country's
TRYING TO SAVE HERSELF.
The American reading public re-.
CARELESS Of creed or nationality have
been earnestly engaged in trying to
untangle the meaning of the press
dispatches Of the past week, not so
much concerning Home Rule, as the
fate of Parliament itself. The gov
eminent went SO far, in attempting
to conciliate Ulster that the very
existence Of the Government itself
has been threatened, The struggle for
Home Rule has been going on with.
out interruption for one hundred and
thirteen years. ever since the crime
committed by the Act of Union. The
agitation for Home Rule has at times
assumed violent attitude and physical
force was the means resorted to by
rebellion. During these long
years of waiting, of hoping, and SUI
fering, the Protestant Home Rulers,
and the Catholic Home Rulers, have
planned. fought, and died together for
the sake of 1reland's freedom. Never
once was there hint that the move
ment was either Catholic or Protes-
tant. Many Of those of beloved mem.
DRY were Protestants, among them
Robert Emmett, Charles Stuart Par
nell, and John Mitchell. It was only
In the day. our own day, when Home
Rule seemed an assured fact that the
Orangemen Of Ulster arose to declare
against Home Rule. in the name of
Professionalism. and set man against
his brother by starting religious
war. Thus have the Orangemen
lodged the merits of the issue and
declared that they would not submit
to anything that looked like Home
Rule. because they declared that it
meant Rome Rule. The figures pub.
lished in the Irish Standard" last
week pointed out clearly the number
Of Protestants in Ireland as compared
with the number Of Catholics. One
can readily understand what the po-
sition Of the Catholics in Ireland
must have been without ever hav-
ing studied single page of Irish
history when it is realized that only
in four counties of Ulster are the
Protestants in a majority, and that
this Protestant majority has entire
ly controlled the destinies Of Ire
land for over q century through the
favoritism Of the British Parliament,
and that in the other provinces of
where the Catholics are in a
not only has their will been
defeated, but they have been caused
to pay tribute to the established church
Of England, and for centuries past
have been forced to pour into the
laps Of the idle absentee landlords
the riches Of which they have been
robbed. Nothing has come to light
which so strongly represents the spe-
cial privileges that the Orangemen Of
Ulster have enjoyed as the fight they
are now making, not only to defeat
the will of the people of Ireland, but
to defeat the policy of the British
as represented through
the Prime Minister. Ulster has grown
bold and defiant under the Act of
Union, 80 bold and defiant that it's ex-
lstence has threatened the disruption
of Parliament itself. Treason and
mutiny are the fruits Of Orangeism in
the British army, thwarting the pur-
pose of the government. and block
Ing the road along which English
men themselves must travel If they
are to remain on the highway of free
1om. The English government for its
own sake must overthrow this treason
able ascendency. (which showed it.
self in designations from the army,
when asked to do the will of the King.
No British statesman, however prudent,
would have the hardihood to point
out that an aristocracy for the rich
and democracy for the poor would
one day bring England upon the dan
serous shoals where she now finds
herself, and that the government
would have to take sides against the
rich and the socially powerful in or
der to save the existence of the gov.
itself. Such has been the
result of maintaining in country
parasitic class, whose livelihood, and
whose prosperity came from play
Ing upon those who were not favored
by q special act of Parliament.
PILLoRIZING CONGRESSMAN.
CONSERVATION reigned in the sane
tum of the st. Paul Pioneer Press
when they learned that James J. Re-
gan had expressed his opinions while
in Washington, relative to the repeal
of the Canal Tolls Bill. Nothing that