HOME RULE AND ENGLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 15 January 1907, Page 3

HOME RULE AND ENGLAND.

To the Kditur, Sir.—We have of hit*', been eon*idet'aUy enlightened oy. the gival <[Uesiion of "ilomo iUde lor JHand)' 5 and although all my grown lip 'iU'e 1 luivu stood for ••Home llulo' J as uu act of justice. 1. do think that Knglish misrule i-> mistakenly Ihe uiusc of very uuuiy (it Uu- ills of -Ireland, which have oilier ami dtvper routs, Mr Deviln Hi.. 1 oUkt spoke of the Irish landInriN' How would Home make them less «»roi;dy mill** it abolished them altogether? » Do not the laud-

Inn!-- oi' cvt'i'v country, just the saim l ;11l otlu'l" UH'll. try to lllillvO the they can out Ol what llu-v Dually ownv \W know 1 hi*i it is i|iiil.t: i»t»: —il»h* umlcr .11 onn- lln f i" N'.'W /a'u!;hi<L fur tin: laiuPlord ul" a stun'. >ay. in .Devon to raise the vent, oi' it 10s pov wtvk to a truant who may have expended CIO of hi* <nvn money ill ini]>v<: vjni; the place. Siieh is ]iiivut ■■ enterprise. il system uj m'l'V one (or himself., which all tint! SwiuiMs bi'lifvc i". Another -injiisiice ui Ireland ' is thill Ui;' Irish pnisinl a-'ti !>ut to 1«'I' week. Are low wages peculiar to Irc'aiid? "I. na. not liorn a -little stave, to labor in the sun": my Sunday school hymn hook said that-.' Vet 1 we'l remember Hi- lime, silioilt 23 years ago, when wiin oilier hoys and "iris and women. I was work ins;'in tile hot sun for ;id per day. or K dd per week, when if did not rain, and 1 got in lull time. That. Si.\ wa-, lin We or.| Hie pud old Knglish frecho'd, and un der .good o!d Knglish lloinc Kule, and in a part of Kuglaud where an Irish-

man was such a rarity that he was looked at with curious eyes the sane! us was a hl.ick man or an Italian with an organ.. Certainly women were paid higher; th,y. got Scl per day, ami men were an bloated capitalists yelling Us pel-week, when the weather was line; and besides all Unit, there was church chariiy in i'"' winter lime, hut still as • yniid government is 110 substitute fyr wlf-jsiivenimwr to the Irish pea said, church charity soup, however I hick, whs no substitute for the bread I hat he too often was prevented from earning by his own honest toil. The landowner), was irtg possession and tic l.ibourer lived only by permission. These linn, in the words of Jlr j)ev- j lin. should have he,mi "prosperous and contented, happy and free. 1 ' They had lloinc Rule, and yet they sometimes growled, especially after that "wicked agitator," Joseph Arch, had agitated them. Tlicy becalms (liscontented with the position in which (lod'had placed them. and began to have the idea- that being units of the Umpire on which the sun never sets, and the tax gatherer iiui'cr goes to bed, did not prevent, the row coming

through the lliatfli, and that, in spite „f Jluim. Hull.', tlii'ii' eliililicii still went to si-Smul without tlii- necessary wilder frocks. Tilings however, have cham'cd since then, anil my own native 11a risli lias losl a third of its peo'J'lH' young and powe'.ful have and tlie old and dec-pit J.| economically useless are lm mnmo, bill )iinloiil)ti-.li,\- ".Sews" renders have rend oi tlie trek to the town- of fn<> I'.nelifJi counU'y population to work in those industries, the joss ol which, through linifhsh misrule, lias caused oil,, per cen'l. id' the Irish people to become paupers ami one in -I-I to have to rely on out door rebel and main 1.1 them to become lunatic anil consiuntivc. etc." I'ossib'y your renders may have lead mat oi the population of London, the industrial c litre of She world, one in every lour die ill the workhouse, hospital, jail lunatic asy.uiu. Mr IVv'.m spoke of the Irish people being "one ol Ihe main foundations of the (ii'caf 'st lie public in the world." bin., really, when | vend of Ihe child-shivery in its .cotj.un mills, the "dunglc' of Chicago, ami tin' corruption of its city govern inenl:i I soinetinUs tlhiik tha'i. t.'ie "1.1111.1 of the I'Tce" of my lioyish dr-.iiiiis i» not great after all. only l,ie- .Mention has'', aiso been made of the wages paid to the Lord l.icutenant of li'cjlaml, viz. .C 22.000; it does seem a good wage Init really it should have been nearer .iCID.UUO, that is comparing it 011 a population basis with the .117,000 and perks which we pay our Covcrnor. Although the wages paid these men are not fixed by ArliiUnluitt award there surely must he a preference or privilege clause somewhere. 1 have often since reading of the occasional outbursts .bctvjjeen rival religionists ill Belfast had 'doubts as to t-ho| harmonious working of Home Rule, doubts as to whether the country's good would not be forgotten in sectarian hatred, hut when Mr Uci lin, in speaking of the Home tilde argument), asked for proot of Catholic intolerance and gave 111 stances of Protestant electorates returning Catholic members ami vice versa 1 said to myself: "Here at last i have the wherewith to demolish the main objection of my auti Home-Kuie. friends" Hut alas', the very mKt dav by cable i read that Cardinal Jjo'e'uc" had sullicieut power and intolerance to compel the stoppage of the paper, "The Irish feasant," and that the editor was appealing to Home for its ruling in the matter! As to separatiou. In'iand has just as much i-j.rht to he independent as Hn'dand or any other country, although we who dream oi "The Parliament of .Mail and the Federation of the World" would, be greatly disappointed in her if she should ever take such a backward stq.) and enter the Dreadnought competition.—! am. etc.. C. I'AItKKK. [Correspondents nurst endeavour to express themselves more brielly—Kd. "News."]