Home Rule

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 8, 1 July 1886, Page 3

Home Rule

The Saturday Advertiser refuses to accept tiie noisy demonstrations made., iii and around the Ho'ft'se of Commons as representing the feelings of Great Britaiii;.as a whole and pronounces itr in6rjednileii ; ]bhat peojple' who; are jfche champions^of ; constitutional liberty should refuse^at priviledge to Irish men;--" It nf||ji be apparent," the says, "to evei^ihoughtful observer that it'is'noti riißrely just, but alsb : •profitabije, to end the quarrel of seven ipehturiesv and have in Ireland an ally ■Mstead of an enemy. We' have over and overr again ,in these columns advocated >• .the rjgbi of /.Ireland to mkke Her opd laws, subject.of c|nrHe to'the ekSfirßement, of the imperial* i Parliament;-- v^e • have ; mWntained 'and still'iijaintain. that such a- con--icessioh^ottVd, strengthen . iuiisiead; of weakening ,4he Blmpire. ', „ \ye hold ;that , theO ieftiabligfimerit , pf an/ Irish* Parliament would be the -means! of, stamping put- Ffenianism>; <Kibbpn-t ism, Orangeism, : »nd ail ; ; other;, isms whicli liavfe, cui'sed ' the', conntry, and niade* Ireland ;the Cinderella of nations. J the views, which |we hold are those maintaioed by .many of thei niost; profound thinkers of the! d'ay.r KThe. parrot cry -raised'by the Tories regarding the unity of the Empire lias succeeded fo| the nonce in leading io tiieirejedtion of; Mr Oladstohe's great measure of jiistice, batihe time is not. far distant wiieri the eye's of the British people will -be opened io tlie ; true, statd of the case;"'