HOME RULE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1258, 13 October 1911, Page 5

HOME RULE.

A CAMPAIGN IN LONDON. By Tclcera-Db—Press Association— Copyright London, October 11. Mr. John Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist Parliamentary party, to-night inaugurated in London a campaign in favour of Homo Rule. In the oourso of his speech, Mr. Redmond said tho Irish were not fools or criminals who would set themselves to tho Dovil's work of still further dividing Ireland and endeavouring to wreak vengeanco on Ulstcrmen who did not kneel at tho same altar. MR. REDMOND'S DEMANDS. "The demand for Home Rule means no less and no moro than this: Ireland asks for an Irish Parliament, with an executive responsible to it, to deal with purely Irish affairs, subject to Imperial supremThis is the keynote of the preface which Mr. John Redmond, M.P., contributes to Mr. Stephen Gwynn's "Tho Case for Homo Rule," published recently in LouMr. Redmond condemns the present system on three grounds: , "That the laws relating to Ireland shall bo niado by a Parliament fite-sixths of whoso members have no knowledge of Ireland's special circumstances, and which, even if Irish affairs were removed from its control, would still bo hopelessly overburdened with work.' , .. , , . "That Ireland Shall be administered in all its departments by one member of an English Ministry, which may be brought in or thrown out against the wash of four-fifths of Irishmen. "That tho same laws, tho same scalo and methods of taxation shall apply to Great Britain, crowded with a population four-fifths of it urban and industrial, and to Ireland, poor, under-peopled, almost entirely agricultural. , , "What," in Mr. Redmond's opinion, 'lies at tho root of this whole controversy is a feeling in tho 'predominant partners that to concede Ireland's demand would bo to accept defeat, that justice cannot be done without admitting injustice in the past, and that Ireland's victory must bo England's humiliation.'