HOME RULE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12974, 29 November 1907, Page 7

HOME RULE.

TO BE FORCED TO THE FRONT

United Preo Association—Bj Eleetiio TelegT»ph—Copyright. (Received November 28th, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, November 28. Mr John Redmond, apeaking at Cardiff, declared that the Irieh perty, which vraa absolutely united, intended to force Home Rule to tJie front next session.

Mr Redmond'i optimism ie not •harod 'by the Irifilh Nationalist who contribute, a witter artide to tho "National Renew," called lhe Paeiing of tie Irieh Party." Hβ contenda that Mr Redmond has failed to make u«e of tie golden opportunity of the leadership of a pledge-bound party of 83. "It v Mr Redmond's great defect that, ■whereas he looks a strong man. he is an reality a very weak man. Hβ haa never actually been leader of the party." The writer blames Mr Eedmond severely for his attitude towards Mr Wyndhaan. "If Mr Wyndham had got the support he deserved, it is beyond question that the two most urvcnt questions—the question of the laid, and that of University education—would have been brought to a speedy and satisfactory solution. Incidentally the oooupation of the agitators would have gone, and therefore the word went round that Wyndhaan was to be harried to destruction

Finally, Mr Redtnond and his friends achieved the victory of their stupidity, aiKi drove out of public life for a time the ablest and most eympathetio statesman that ever went to the Irish office. In ooiuiparison with this, Mr Redmond's most recent exploit fades into insignificance, Hβ advised: on the Irish Council Bill, blessed it on his introduction to the House, and then, finding Irish opinion adverse, damned the Bill, and toirew over Birrell and Oarapbeli-Bannerman." The -writer considers Mr Redmond committed a grave, mistake in not curbing his men in the Boer 'war, and accuses him orf offending tho English Nonconformists *nd the Irish Baehopg, but thinks he made his craves* blunder in christening ,1907 the Home Rule year. His iterated prophecies about the imminence or Homo Rule have ignominiously failed. 14 writer says ot the party that " neither at Westminster nor in Ireland is their talk any more regarded than the babble of so many gramophones." The -worst sting is received for the end. "Nothing matters very much now in Irish politics. What Ireland l wants is a good long rest from poliuos. The very best thing poeeiblo would be to have half a dozen of tho leading agitators nailed up in a barrel and dropped gently into the Irish eea."