IRISH PARTY IN PAWN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 216, 11 September 1911, Page 5

IRISH PARTY IN PAWN.

| UNDER PARLIAMENT BILL. HEALEY'S COMMENT. - (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 10. Mr. T. Healey, speaking at Cork, commenting on Mr. John Redmond's silence, said that the Government had so framed the Parliament Rill as to completely pawn the entire power, organisation, machinery, and votes of the Irish party for three years. He denied that Ireland was unable to pave the way under Home Rule. Last month Mr. Redmond addressed a letter to Mr. John Muldoon, the newlyelected member for East Cork, in the course of which he remarked that "the Home Rule cause stands in a position of power which it never occupied before." Mr. Redmond added: "So far as the people, of Great Britain are concerned, I fear no rock ahead. I have been, as you know, closely in touch with British public opinion recently, arid I am quite convinced that Home Rule for Ireland has at its back the goodwill of the overwhelming majority of the British people, and by Home Rule I do not mean any cowardly or grudging measure, but a bold measure of self-government, which will give to the Irish people control of their own purely local affairs, through the agency of a freely-elected Parliament in Dublin, with an Executive responsible to it, subject, of course, to Imperial supremacy. Such a measure will be introduced into Parliament at th<? commencement of next year, and will be carried by an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons. The only trouble that seems to threaten us comes, not from the British people, but from a certain section in Ireland. Recent declarations by the leaders of this section on the subject of Home Rule, if they were taken seriously in this country, would no doubt constitute a danger.