El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-06
Three NJ utuaIly Hostile
Parties Make HImpossibZe
For Either To Win.
HOME RULE NOW
MAY BE DELAYED
Recent ReUoIt POSTPONED
Whate0er Favorable Action
Was Planned, Is Belief.

Y ONDON, Eng, May ct was end
less feuds and bloody warfare
- beween the innumerable kings
made the island such an easy prey to
England in the beginning.
Today Erin finds itself still a house
divided against itself
Even if the Sim Fein and the Irish
Volunteers could carry out their plans
and erect an Irish republic, it Is doubt
full if they could get even a majority
Of the I-ish voters to approve the
move
The responsible elected representa-
tives of Ireland in the British Parlia-
rncnt are not in favor Of independence
from England. AT the most they. want
home rule. like Canada South Africa
Australia and New Zealand, the SO
called British self governing domin-
The Irish farmer Knows that his
prosperity depends on "a market Tor
his produce. That market has always
been almost exclusively England
With the market cut off, agricultural
ireland. and most Of the island is agrI-
cultural would be ruined
Three Hostile Parties.
To understand the whole situation
in ireland it is to be kept in mind that
there are three distinct and mutually
hostile parties
First, there is the party which IS
for maintaining the present status OF
close identity with England, It's mem
bers are known variOusly as Anti
Home Rulers, Orangemen, Ulsteritess
CarsOnites, and Unionists. They are
essentially Protestant and non-Gaelic,
and their strength is in the north.
where they control the most prosper
Gus CITY in Ireland, Belfast,
The Obstetrics are strongly support
MMHmNn In
present war. They have supplied
proportion Of army volunteers far
greater than the rest Of Ireland
At the Same time it was their arm
ing under Sir Edward Carson to op-
pose the putting into effect of the
Home Rule bill which indirectly
brought about the Tecent revolt.
The Orangemen feared that with Ire
land self governing, the Protestant and
Industrial north, a minority Of the
population. would be Disseminated
against by the Roman Catholic and
agricultural south and west
But their volunteers were quickly
paralleled by the National Volunteers
raised and drilled in Catholic com
The rebels. however, are a minority
Of the Irish Nationalist. The leader
of the Nationalists is John Redmond.
NJ P who Joined with Sir Edward
Carson to publicly repudiate the revolt
i'm the house Of commons
revolt are dissenters from the Home
Rule" program. They center about the
Sim Fein pronounced Shinn Fain and
meaning ourselves AlOne") an or
ganizati0n formed about 1907 Of men
who believed the way to free Ireland
was to fight and not to agitate.
The Sim Fein established branches
in every county and many newspapers
were circulated as its organs
Ridiculed BY RedmOndites.
It's leaders were not men VINO nao
before been prominent in Ireland. The
Sim Fein was as object of ridicule on
the part of the BedmOndites
Before the outbreak Of the war in
1914. the English allowed the Sim Fein
the greatest liberty. for the freedom
Of the press. of assemblage and OF
public speech is as dear to the Brit
isher as to the American
With the coming of the war crisis.
however. certain measures Of repres-
sion were put in force. The principal
Sim Fein organ was forced to dis
continue publication
Although itself of recent origin, the
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