The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-09-02
IRISH CONDITIONS IN AUGUST

llflSn PreSS ana News SerVlce.)
By J. ID. Lyons.
Dublin, August 9.--The condition of
Ireland has changed for the worse in
the last MONTH All factions of Ma
tionalists agree that Home Rule is
dead. The fatal surrender OF Ulster
by the Irish Parliamentary party not
only sealed the fate of the provisional
bill but has rendered hopeless the
task of the Liberal party in executing
the terms of the Home Rule Act now
on the statute books, postponed until
after the war, and now utterly de-
stroyed by the substitute accepted by
Mr. Redmond which too has failed,
leaving Ireland to be ruled by General
Maxwell and Dublin Castle. The pro-
scouting attorney general of the cOun-
try, Mr.. Campbell, as we'll as the new
secretary for Ireland, Mr. Duke, are
both staunch Tories who will be gov
erned by the military powers in con-
troll of the island.
Mr.. Redmond is somewhat relieved
by the governments assurance that
no elections will be permitted in Ire
land this year. Your correspondent
met him in London. He appears great
ly depressed, seldom appears in Ire
land and speaks but rarely in the
House of Commons. He regards him
self as having been betrayed on all
sides after his diligent recruiting cam
paisn in Ireland, which he SAYS Melted
at least 100000 soldiers for the British
army and that Irish soldiers saved the
British army from several disasters in
Flanders. He will do no more recruit
ing. He is condemned by many
people in Ireland for his recruit
ing speeches and agencies. and,
| on the other hand, the British
government exhibits the blacklist in
gratitude, he says, after he had liter.
ally taken his life in his hands by
adopting course condemned by many
friends, when the coalition govern.
ment Inundated him before the world
by disputing and repudiating his al.
legged understanding with Lloyd George
over Home Rule. Archbishop Walsh
OF Dublin. Bishop ODwyer of Liner
lick and John Sweetman, who is out
OF prison, and other prominent Home
Rulers. believe the Irish party should
resign their seats III the House OF
Commons, as the opinion prevails that
the party can do no good in Parlia.
ment and has become detrimental to
all national aspirations. MIR. Redmond
keenly feels the loss of American
support and notes, with dismay, the
steady fusilade OF American press at.
tacks on the British government for
the execution of the Irish prisoners
of war.
His friends painfully recall his sill
ence at the time of the executions
and all agree that American support
has been withdrawn from the party
which is in fragments. Mr.. Devlin
holds the machinery of the party to.
gether through the patronage of War
Minister Lloyd-George. who is an in.
innate of the member from West Bel.
fast. The government is spending
$6O,00O,O0O in Ireland for war sup.
plies and munitions and Devlin is
the controlling patronage broker. He
is also an important factor in the
British Civil Service which has brok.
en- down under the war strain and
Devlin's retainers hold many places
In the Insurance, Old Age Pension
and other government branches. Mr..
Devlin says that if Lloyd. George can
carry the war to successful conclu.
sion there will be an imperialistic fed
GRAFTON. which will include Ireland,
called to meet after the war. and his
followers expect that he will be made
premier of Ireland which he plans to
make sort of west British colony
after the war.
He notes the popularity in England
OF Premier Hughes. a labor man, of
Australia and seems to think seriously
that Ireland. il made loyal to Eng.