The Daily News SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81903, 15 December 1906, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

■l,f Irdkuid had got Home Rule as | soon as she wanted it, In.' world I would have suffered. If Tre'and had got Home Hide when she asked for it, Ireland would liave been as prosperous as other lands have become with the help and genius of the Irish. If the Emerald Isle had fortv millions of people instead of four the earth ■would he wanting millions of the Irishman who stayed at home to go out into it. cheer'it up with the brilliance of their intellect, carry the Celtic spirit of fierce deep loyally into it, bring the exuberance of their vitality to work and altogether make the old earth a. place belter worth living in. dust because the "onM sod" is a distressful couiitr.yi the Irishman who has had the money to do so has left it. dust because lie did not want to leave tie old home without a, .:,t.i ug'Klc he has suffered and fought, been kicked, cuffed and sat on and in return has bitten hard. He wouldn't have been an Irishman if he hadn't bitten hard, and lie wouldn't have been a man if he had bitten his lip and said never a word.

We in Xew Zealand, whether of English, Scotch or Irish descent, havo never, at least while in this country, ever known coercion, espionage, hu J litigation, starvation. No one has been desirous of crushing our spirit, no one could have succeeded because there has not been time. Also we are too far away to be a supposed menace to Downing street. Do we as a people rejoicing in complete free (loin, feel for the Irishman at home and the mission that Jlr Devlin, the Irish envoy now in this country has in hand? The most precious possession of any people is their independence. Australia is considered lit to possess her independence; South Africa is considered to have brains enough to run her own political con cenis; Xew Zealand tlirives tinker autonomy—and Ireland .rots un,de./ coercion." What hare the Irish done to deserve such a fate? They have never possessed the spirit that the Hritishci boasts as his chief glory. ,'L'Jku annals of the Celtic race, including the Welsh and the Cornish,, show that even the uneducated of their race are more brilliant than the average man. \\ here the CUt has had the advantage of education, allied to his natural talents he has almost invariably shone.

Britain's greatest soldiers are Irish., Britain's brilliant orators are Irish. America-, has men of great achievements, of high position, of intellectual eminence, whose -parents wer.e' driven out of Ireland, because Uie, only pecjile who never understood the Irish were the neighbors. Countless years of oppression, poverty, the gradual rotting of most Irish industries, except the brewing of beer, have failed to kill the uiikilln'olo. spirit of the Celt. lie is the wit maker for the world. The humblest Irishman is a well-spring of humor. The non-Irish humorists of the woild father their jokes on to Jrisl m if they were unusually brilliant. The Irishman is generally a person of line pkysujuc—that is the Irishman the ;coJollies know. Jl;e becomes anylliing from a policeman or a publican to Premier of a colony. He is a thorough sport. The Irishman is enioMona-l. Jltst i/.notioiial peopio at some time in their life want to go out and slay their worst enemy. It is a (rail a natural man has. The oppressed men who have "played up'' in Ireland have given the' whole 'people a bad name. The "lawless'' Irishman is the greatest lawgiver and the greatest law-enforcer in the Empire. Just proves that where the race has a chance its members can be just, upright, honorable gentle men.

If you, knowing yourself tu bean honest man, art looked upon hv evenf f«JUiI i'ls<' «" a tliii'f, "I'll you'll <;.;„m>r or laVcfquaiiiy'Tbr "the' ifislinclion. If you, being possessed of more than the av'orage amount of brains, are looked upon as incapable of running your own affairs and a foreigner insists on coming and running them to your disadvantage, well you will protest. The Iridunan who protests is ealled a "moon-lighter." The Homo liule patriot is tailed a "Hibernian agitator." Devlin is a Hibernian agitator. Being in Xew Zeaiim J won't make Devlin am- the less of a patriot. ii will teach hiin lessons that will sink into his receptive Celtic sold. It will not make him less bitter against Ue oppressors of his country to see tlie contrast that Home Kule for Xew Zealand is a .Misrule oi> (Ireland-', ilere he |!ii),|s a. people no better able to manage tban the Irish, inanagingl under an Irish Covcrnor and an insl, Premier. Jle will lind a very large proportion ni the people of Irish uescciit--lrclauds loss, .New Zealand's gain. I],. w j|| hud them law-abiding and unwilli,:" to rush round with a shillelah breaking the heads of all and sundry He wid lind that the irishman j,', Xew Zealand is looked upon as a human being and is having as good a time as any other kind of a man.

A free people do not desire serfdom for others, Xew Zealandcrs of whatever blood cannot in their hearts be anything else but Home Bulcrs. \ man who dares to say he is a Home Jl ( uler in this country is not' looked upon as a cut-throat. lie i s resided as such in Ireland. it is pathetic that an irishman from tl ,„,[,] sod,'' knowing tlie weakness of u K . Irishmen at Home, lias to appeal to the free irishmen of the outer Einpire for moral and substantial siiij)>u.t to carry on a. campaign that never wavers and which must in justice end in .victory. i' o , irishmen »r the Empire to Hock home to Ileum! when the victory is won would 'L. a catastrophe to (he outer Umpire | but that with a new responsibly' ;on their shoulders, the down-trodden Hibernmns would win a place in the »orld of commerce as tbev still insist on winning great places j,, tinworld of art, science, and learnm- is certain. Throughout one "rent I'm I'"''-' 'mmy -T the ablest adiniuist'raois are Irish Could they admiuisl-">' m Ireland? The lir»t university -cr cslab.ishcd was in „,|a„d. Did ■he nsh ever learn anything? Most of the most delicate crafts were fir.t established m Ireland. Could preaunt, day irishmen revive their own commerce*

In sln.rt, arc tlio irisli who rule in vaiiuus ways tlii-oujjhimt the world competent to rule in their own connLl >'' Jf not, wliy not? Jf tliev mi' not eaynblj of L ..\i-iiisiii.. t . oi ; iill , )ll sense, who has defuhed tTi..-;n of ti u . I'akt'Uy? Jf education i b backward lit the present in Ireland, who ha-, kept it back? The Irish - Hut thev don't rule. They have nothing to do with it. Thu irishmen „f the Em' Ipire outside do and could show an aggregation of wealth Unit would SlllJfjjL.,- U [J j lv l, llKl . Xlll.. Scattered Hibernians who siiii have a soft spot lor the distressful country, united could' revive the ancient glor.fcs of the green isle. But the" Irishmen of till! world are going to do nothing of the kind until Ireland is Irish The day that JJonic itule would come to Ireland, the earth would gi\V| U i| countless Hibernians all bent on reviving the country and getting rid of V.m uly vol. A. bravo, chival.ioun nice refuses to die because it won't stay in the place its enemies want it to die in. Jt will go back in lar«e numbers when itself is allowed to sav whether it shall be a charmd-hous;. or a nation, self govcrnin,", self esteeming anil esteemed for' iiscK | IV all countries. "