HOME RULE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2707, 16 November 1889, Page 2

HOME RULE.

TO THK KIHTOH. Sm. —As my letter which appeared in your issue of tin! Uth inst., seems to liaye considerably hurt Mr Murphy's feelings, re Home Rule, all that I tail say is that I am very sorry that his skin is so very thin and that he will never assert things of which he is entirely ignorant. In his iettur he says he would like to break a lance with me on this question. Nothing will me greater pleasure, provided that if I break a lance with him the lance is his own and not another's. I will, for Mr Murphy's enlightenment, give him the true meaning of Home Rule, and what Home Rulers 011 Home "Rule say. The following are extracts taken from some of the leading Irish papers: —Mr Parneil, in a speech at Cork, said : " When they had shattered this infamous system (id 'est, Landlordism) the time would not be far distant when Ireland would gain the srreater right, the right of self-government, the right of nationhood." Again, in a speech, he said : '■ Speaking for myself and I believe for the Irish people, and for all my colleagues I have to declare that we wiii never accept, neither expressly or implied anything but the full and complete right to arrange our own affairs and to make our hind a nation, and secure for her free from outside control the right to direct her own cnurse among the peoples of the world." Mr Honly, speaking at Boston, America, said : —''Wo ivi.-di to see Ireland what (iod intends she should be ; a powerful nation. Wo se-ik no bargain with England. As tin; Mn.-ter said unto the tempter when ho offered him the kingdoms of the earth, 'begone, Satan,' so [ will we say 11111,0 them 'begone, Saxon."' 1 Mr Redmond in January, IBSO, _ declared that " they were all united iu their hatred to England," and a few months later protested that " they did not desiro _to have anything more to do with kings and queens, for the only style of (iwverament I a which I rishmen could look for freedom and prosperity was 0110 which would ba Democratic and Republican." Mr I'illnn said, " talk of meeting the enemy in arms, there is 110 man in I reland would be more 1.xr1.-.Jf fUn I MY lVivitt.

at Rodyke. .Tune, 1887, spoke as iollows :— " I I rust that every young imm hero to-day will liavc registered in his heart n vow which I made thirty years ago to bear towards England and England's Government in Ireland, all tlio concentrated hatred of my Irish nature." These extract.-! will prove very clearly to Mr Murphy what is meant by Home Utile, very different to the J Home Hole ho says is enjoyed bytlie Austra- j lian colonies. Now lor a tow extracts against Home Rule, -Mr Win. Johnson, M.l\ speaking at P.alliiiamalhird, August IWJ, said, '• What they required to do in the present crisis was to tell the English and Scotch people that there was a large section of the people of Ireland who were determined to resist Home Rule and to stand linn to the principles which they had inherited from their forefathers and maintain thorn to the very end.'' Hu further goes on to sviy, "That if they were once placed beneath the yoke and in the power of such men as would occupy the Parliament in Dublin they would soon be made painfully to experience bitter persecution, and be exposed both as regarded their property and their lives to the destructive influence and power of a dominion under the Government of Rome. That, he believed, would unquestionably be the case if Home Rule were gran ted to Ireland. The Rev. R. Blair at same place. Referring to tlie condition of trade said, " That the price of cattle had increased, farm produce was heightened in price, and in the commercial world matters were in a most satisfactory and prospering statn|; therefore they did not require Home Rule, but still remain united to England." Mr Chamberlain says " No one had been able to show that II«mo Rule would make Ireland rich or peaceable." Mr Johnson M.P., speaking at Liverpool, said, "When Mr Gladstone brought in his Homo Rule Bill, the Orangemen of Ulster declared that they would never submit to a Parnellite Parliament in Dublin, and they said the same now, and they would be prepared to resist its decrees by the rifle and the sword and tight over again. Cardinal Mantling, at Liverpool, concluded his speech on Home Rule as follows : ' The majority of the Irish people do not require Home Rule, but are contented to remain ag they are. ruled by England, who's laws are truo and just, both for Catholics and Protestants. England is a nation that the Irish ought to be proud of, for if she requires help England is, and will be, the first to stretch forth the hand of fellowship and love." I did intend to give Mr Murphy a few statistical returns, but as my letter has extended beyond the length I intended, I will leave them for another time.—l am, &c, llajiiltonian. Hamilton, loth November, ISS9.