IRISH HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 24, 11 January 1912, Page 7

IRISH HOME RULE.

Mr. Healy has , made several slasnmg attacics on Mr. Redmond. He recently wrote: “Unfortunately for our nopes of a .broad Home Kule Bill, Mr. Asquith'has Mr; Redmond's measure to a millimetre. The Prime Minister appreciates fully that Mr. liedmond, naving inflamed tlie Tory Party against Ireland, has now only one bed co lie on, and that if he quarrels with his ibed-feilows, ‘his lodgings is on the cold, cold ground.’ When too late, Mr. Hedmond realises the effect of his splitting the Irish party into sections. When he illegally excluded from it a dozen members fresh from their election by Unionist con--sntuencies), did he imagine fie could also exclude the elfcctk of their opinions on current polities?'Now that the ex-corn mufiicatea and the proscribed arc more powerful without him than with film, ne takes alarm lest they should imitate next year the mean role played by himself in 1893. Then Mr. Gladstone, with only a majority of 40,' was striving manfully to carry Home Rule in the face of Redmondite attack. In 1912 no one is likely to copy Mr. Redmond’s tactics or compare Mr. Asquith’s measure to ‘a toad, ugly and venomous,’ this being the deadly parting shot given to the Home Rule Bill, on its way to the House of Lords in 1893, by Mr. J. E. Redmond. Mr. O’Brien harbours no design of setting any section of British opinion, be it Liberal or Tory, against Ireland. He desires tlie friendship ahd co-op-eration of both English parties, if it can be won, but we think Mr. Redmond enjoys tlie respect or confidence of neither. Has anyone yet discovered in him even a trace of civic courage? Who believes he can lie trusted in any emergency? On the recent occasion affecting tlie Crown, with a majority at bis back, this great leader deserted his friends, and was constrained by a minority. To-day, with the unanimous voice of the hierarchy condemning as unsuitable the application of the Insurance Bill to Ireland, Mr. Redmond cowers before an occult handful in his party which seeks to establish and endow, under the guise of a ‘friendly society,’ a vengeful sectarian propaganda.”