HOME RULE PROSPECTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2510, 1 June 1893, Page 3

HOME RULE PROSPECTS.

Writing to a friend in Auckland from the House sf Commons, under date April Bth last, Sir Thos. H. G, Esmonde, M.P., says : —“ So far this has been the hardest session of Parliament we have yet had, and it seems likely that there is harder work still before us. However, we are ready for it, and however hard the work may prove we have this to encourage us in the coming fight, that we are fighting a winning battle. Homo Rule for Ireland is now an absolute certainty. It is only a question of a year more or less of struggle at Westminster, and in the English constituencies. We shall carry the Homo Kule Bill through all its stages in the House of Commons this summer. It will then go up to the House of Lords. What course that august assembly will take with reference to it remains to be seen. In any case I look forward to a general election next year, if the Gladstonians win in England, as I believe they will, 1895 should see an Irish Parliament in session in Dublin. Should the Tories succeed at the next general election, they will themselves have to reckon with the Irish National Party and with the English Home Rulers, and the force of circumstance will compel them to bring in a Home Rule Bill of their own. So that whatever happens I look upon the cause of Home Rule as perfectly safe. It is the strongest proof of the strength and durability and eventual triumph of our movement that it has lived through the stress and storm af the last two years, apd still remains as the qne great issue in British politics.”