HOME RU E.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1255, 19 March 1886, Page 3

HOME RU E.

]n a letter to the ‘ Times/' Earl Grey makes the following remarks upon Home Rule for Ireland ; There are not a few serious defects in the existing laws of Ireland which might be usefully corrected, and much might be done by wise and firm ads ministration, as well as by judicious legislation, to encourage the advance of the people in a right direction, and to lead them to forget the fatal lesson they have been taught by what his been ignorantly done for them in re* cent years—that they may hope to better their lot in iifes not only by their ewa efforts, but by extorting aid from the State, and permission to possess themselves unjustly of what rightly belongs to others. They are the true friends of Ireland who seek to have it governed with this view, not those who ask that they should be granted the Home Rule they insist upon having, though it would assuredly prove even more injurious to themselves than to us. The great want of Ireland at this moment is that English capital should be invested in the improvement of its resources. Give real security, and this capital would flow in fast enough to take advantage of the many fields tor its profitable employment to be found there. Great Home Rule, and besides all the other evils it could not fail to bring on the country, it would effectually prevent another shilling of English money from being sent there Our' capitalists would be. more willing to lend their money to the South American States, of which the credit is lowest, than to send it to he invested in the most, promising Irish specula* tions under the government of a Home Rule Parliament,

Sir James Stephen writes to the same p.apdr, * on the same subject, as as follows:—

Every siuglo consideration which I makes it possible to invest the larger I colonies with the power of separation from the United Kingdom makes it impossible tp do so with respect ,to Ireland. Canada,-South Africa, New .Zealand, and Australia are separated from us and from each other by - thousands of miles of ocean, by interests, not, indeed, conflicting, but perfectly independent—by a difference of occupation aud circumstances so great that it ip hardly possible .that those who are accustomed to the one should be (it to legislate for the other. We are nected with-them; on the other ha'nd, by every tie.which. naturally pro luces friendship and promotes good offices. people have .noihjng <;'tb |road M>m ttiVha^flral'deyclopmeiil by :>s&; otherwise- -Si the iipiiuoiisnr sentinyjnts common in any of the British dominions. If they did become independent, they would, cons tin no to bo ihe most friendly of allies, and, as is sometimes the case with Americans, would‘hardly look upon themselves as foreigners. For these reasons the great Colonies and England must stand to each other, not in the relation of indivisaole- parts of one great whole, but in tne relation of friendly States, closely connected by friendship and by ties of habit and interest, but essentially and at bo f tom distinct. The very opposite of each of

these assertions is true of Ireland, i reland is separated from Great Britain by a narrow channel of sea, by unhappy quarrels factiously inflamed for wicked purposes, and by some un

happy memories, the latest of wliich is not far from a century ohl. They are, on the other hand, connected by every tie of interest, of business, and of language. Ireland is as inextricably mixed up with England as London with Manchester. The union between England and Ireland is one which laws did not make, and which nothing but force, strenuously and continuously exerted, can destroy.

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