HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1736, 12 May 1888, Page 3

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

In the course of his lecture at the Thames on “ Ireland—Past, Present, and Future,” Mr Molloy, M.P., said : —“ Ireland in the past, with her free Parliament, was prosperous, and he had shown by facts the misery and . unhappiness of. to-day. The population . has dwidled, and common rights are denied her citizens. He instanced the case of Canada before and after the granting of Home Eule. Great opposition was at the time shown to the measure, and now that country is pointed out as the most loyal of British possessions. But Irtland, it was said, would be different. He ridiculed the idea of a small band of : Irishmen fighting the British Empire, or even desiring separation. Ireland produces £20,000,000 worth of produce, and her only market is V England, to which she exports ► £19,000,000. Thus separation from England would mean taking nineteen out of every pound in an Irishman's pocket. Home Eule means : in lesser degree for Ireland the Home 'Eule enjoyed by the colonies and the Islands of Man, Jersey, Guernsey. It means applying a policy which has succeeded everywhere to Ireland, where no policy has yet succeeded. Home Eule would grant to Ireland the internal management of her own affairs. - Its greatest enemy is prejudice, and and Home Eule, that has the majority in England and the whole ■ of Ireland in its favor, will ultimately win, and when the flag of Ireland waves over the Irish Parliament in Dublin, amidst the cheers ot England, Scotland, and Wales, as predicted by Mr Gladstone, there will he a real and lasting union between two countries now separated by prejudice alone.”—Auckland Herald.