THE STATE OF ICELAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8847, 25 June 1907, Page 2

THE STATE OF ICELAND.

. PrcsaAgsooia tlon—Copyright. London. Juno 24, Mr Redmond, speaking at New Ross at the unveiling of a memorial of Wexford men who had fallen in battle at New Eoas in 1788, declared that the principle of nationality wherefor men in 1798 fought, •would never bo surrendered. They might differ as to methods, bat all were united in demanding one object, namely, the freedom of Ireland. She _ was the Empire’s weakness, but if England was able to win her goodwill by a frank concession of freedom to-her people that would be m°re value to her than the goodwill of all the colonies of the Empire put together. The Wexford men told England that they hated her, and they were as much rebels against her rule to-day as m 1798,- and she could and she would change that hatred by a grant of freedom, and by nothing else. The anti-grazing disturbances are so serious that the pekoe m lonely parts of Roscommon have been armed with the latest pattern of magazine rifle. The potato blight has already appeared in many parts of Ireland. The Department of Agriculture recommends that immediate preventive measures be taken. A. P. Kelly was remanded to gaol for a week for inciting to violence. Feeling runs very high in Galway and only Kelly’s secret arrest prevented a demonstration ' being organised on his arrival there.

Agitation For Home Rule

The Executive of Sinn Fein dissents from tile policy of the National Directory whose minimum demand, it declares, is a sovereign Parliament with powers equal to or co-exteusive with those of the British Parliament. Mr Ure, Solicitor-General for Scotland, in a speech at Manchester, said he was unable to conceive a greater mistake than for the Liberal Government to trim and fashion Bills to conciliate a pack of uobodies " carrying constituencies under their hats. The Irish League is initiating a great Home - Rule demonstration throughout Ireland and is asking Nationalist members of the House of Commons, public boards, Gaelic athletic societies and other bodies to co-operate to make the demaud for self-government irresistible.