THE IRISH PROVINCIAL PRESS ON HOME RULE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 46, 14 March 1874, Page 9

THE IRISH PROVINCIAL PRESS ON HOME RULE.

The ' Westmeath Independent,' in the course of an article on Home Rule, pays :—": — " Iv our issue of Saturday we asserted that the reT.edy for the ruin which has fallen ou our country is the restoration to her of self-government. A reference to the condition of the country before the era of the Volunteers, during the eighteen years of her independent parliament, and since the Uuion, completely proves that assertion. J he source of all these evils is, therefore, the destruction of Irish selfgovernment. " Unhappy the nation whose books a stranger keeps." The only means of restoring pc ice, prosperity, and happiness to the laud is the attainment of the right to manage our own affairs. The attainment of that end is certain if Irishmen will uuite. Nothing revolutionary is proposed. The supporters of Home Rule seek not the disruption of the British Empire, but rather its consolidation iv the union, pro a perity, and contentment of all its subjects. The spirit of nationality, the love of native land, nothing can destroy in the hearts of liiahmen. While her inalienable right is deuied her, Ireland can never be content ; she were routemptible if she could. Graut her the independence of a nation, and England can then count on that rnauly, true, and generous loyalty which justice alone can secure.