The Feilding Star. TUESDAY TAPRIL 25, 1893. The Home Rule Bill

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 131, 25 April 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY T APRIL 25, 1893. The Home Rule Bill

On Friday last the House of Commons, by a majority of forty-three, passed the second reading of the Home Rule Bill. Every member was accounted for, either in the lobbies or by "pairs." This may be considered one of the greatest victories ever won by Mr Gladstone. Whether it will be followed by the dire results, prophesied by the opponents of the Bill, remains to be seen. Of course there will be a severe battle when the Bill gets into committee; and, probably, when it emerges from that ordeal, it will be considerably changed, and many of its most objectionable clauses eliminated altogether. By that time, it may be expected, the ferment which has been excited in Ireland by both the political parties will have cooled down, and counsels of the prudent and wise among them be allowed to prevail. At this distance from whence we can look calmly on the strife between the great political parties in the United Kingdom, it appears pitiable —if not ridiculous —that the legislators of the most independent nation in the world should betray so much irritation, and become so enraged ac each other as to hold out threats of revolution and bloodshed because one, side proposed a measure intended to benefit the nation and the other objected to if. We feel convinced that the people of Ireland who are most concerned in the subject of Home Rule, occupied but a secondary position in the minds of the contestants who really appear to care more for the victory gained by their party, than for the nominal objects of the Bill. It is k very remarkable coincidence that the majority in favor of the Bill is precisely the same as that on the motion of the Irish Parliament in 1800 in favor of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland.