THE IRISH QUESTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 159, 11 June 1883, Page 2

THE IRISH QUESTION.

Mr Thornton* Hoskins has admirably gumraaiised the needs of Ireland, and the sentence m which he. has done this Bhould y ti l^Co i mtt»i^ted''to heart by every English pnliticiaD : — " There will be no peace m Ireland until'aMbcilr Legislative Council be established m Dublin, vestpd iwith power:? oyer proyipcial aasernhließ, boards of guar-iianp, &c, charged with the control of the po'ice and judicial system, the administration ot the poor law, and the management of the vailways, ahdj in* short,' all that are hot stiictly Imperial concerns." As the British Mail observes: — One particle more could not "be ' conceded without reason to British interests j one fcintillu

I ss could not and ought not to bo finally accepted by any Irishman worth the n-'sme. Arp th r re no Irish members capable of formulating this programme ? fs there no English statesman ready to head a really national movement for its adoption ? He would win for himself a name second to none m our annals, and by the pacification of Ireland do more to help England than it is m any states* man T s power to do, perhaps, for many years to come. The lime is ripe. Surely the, man is rpa^y somewhere I