Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-18
IRISH HOME RULE,
AS VIEWED HERE
Charles p. Gillen Points to Pos
sibIe Drawbacks in New
Freedom Law.

BOARD OF works commissioner
Charles 2. Gillen was pleased today
to hear that the home rule for Ire
land bill has been made a law. He
is probably the most active of the
Newark leaders in Irish-American So
cieties and is an officer of the United
Irish-American Societies OF Essex
County. He said:
Though King George has signed
the Irish home rule bill 1t appears
that 1t will not become effective until
the war is over. The war may con-
tinue for two or three years. In that
case Ireland Will not have home rule
until hostilities end.
Dismemberment Is Had.
Il hope 1t isn't true that several
counties of the Ulster province are
to be excluded from the operations
of the home rule measure. The ex.
clusion of any portion of Ireland
would mean the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
Ireland. The excluded portion would
come directly under the imperial gov
eminent. The Irish Parliament
would have no control or power over
that portion. If this means home
rule for Ireland it's step in the
right direction. If II means the dis
memberment of Ireland it is a bad
measure.
THE bill viii confer limited pow
ers, but these powers of course. may
be amplified by supplemental legis-
lation. The fight for home rule has
been going on for many years. Glad
stone fathered a home rule measure
which twice passed the House of
Commons, but was defeated both
times by the House of Lords Con,
d1tfons have changed since then The
House of Lords has no veto power
now, after a measure has been
passed through the House of Com.
mons three times. After the third
passage of the present measure in
the House OF Commons 1t went direct
to the king for his signature.
"Parnell fought for home rule for
ireland. There is a difference be-
tween Parnell's fight and Redmond's
fight. When asked by the British if
home rule was all the Irish people
wanted Parnell replied that there
was no limit to the ambitions of q
proud race.
Redmond accepts the present home
rule measure as O final settlement of
the Irish question. I don't think the
Irish people look upon II In that light.
Parnell looked upon home rule as q
stepping stone. Redmond considers
home rule a complete settlement of
the Irish question.
Not a Favor.
Home rule is not a Concession or
favor granted by England to Ireland.
1t was wrung from the British gov
eminent by the influence of the Irish
vote in the House OF Parliament.
Parliament was divided. The Irish
held the balance of power The Lib
erals needed their vote to carry out
their own designs In England They
promised to vote for home rule if the
Irish members would stand by them.
The Irish members did stand by them
and the bargain was carried out.
The passage of the home rule bill
is not an indication of a magnani-
nous spirit on the part of the British
government toward ireland. 1t is the
result OF some political bargain maxi
ing, the Irish members delivering the
goods to the dominant faction in
England.
"A cloud is thrown over the trans
action by certain recent happenings
1t would appear that the bargain
having been contaminated, the Brit
ish government has seen fit to exact
further promises from the Irish. It
would seem that an additional bar
gain was made whereby the youth
OF Ireland are now supposed to en-
list in the English army, and to give
up their lives in the continental war
which many declare was of England's
own making. II this Is SO the bar
gain is a dangerous one IL the able
bodied men of ireland must perish In
the war now going on in return for
a o~o-~'~ad 'in,'tn1 -,easura Of homo
uIe, plague would be better thing
In Ifeiand than bargain making OF
this kind.
Redmond now calls upon Ireland
to fight England's battle. Why?
Why should the men Of Ireland go to
war for England and leave their fam
lies behind in an impoverished con-
fields untitled? How long will this
war last? If a bargain has been
made to take the young Irishmen out
of Ireland, how much poverty and
distress Will visit Ireland before the
home rule bill becomes effective? Has
this bargain been made? If so, Ire
land faces a worse crisis than she has
ever faced before in her turbu' ent
history. If any Irishman has made
a bargain of this kind with the Eng
lish government, | don't care what
name he may now be known by, he
Will go down in history as q Judas
Iscariot.
II have sent to the Evening Star
this morning a letter written by a
Dublin man to his cousin in this city,
which sheds some real light on the
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