Home Rule.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 October 1911, Page 3

Home Rule.

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LONDON, October 2. A statute of Charles Stewart Parnell, by the American sculptor St. Gaudens, has been unveiled at Dub-

A vast gathering witnessed the procession of Nationalist societies ti .toHigh the city, and thousands of excursionists cam© from the west and north. The railway strike, however, necessitated cancelling tlie Muiister excursion. The police generally guarded the carriage of Lord Mayor Alderman Farrell, who was hooted and compelled- to leave tlie .procession. Mr John Redman, leader of tlie Nationalist .party, in unveiling the statue, said Parnell had found the Irish peasants serfs and had made tlhem free men. The Home Rule movement wa6 now in the position it occupied before Pamell's death, anct in addition the power of the House of Lords to oppose it had gone.