THE MEANING OF HOME RULE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 3

THE MEANING OF HOME RULE.

Sir,—The policy of the Irish Nationalists at present is to pretend to he satisfied with tho form of Homo Rule promised by the Asquith Government, but their real aim and object is complete separation from tho Empire. That this is true can be shown from the statements of the leaders of tho Homo Rule movement. s In ISBO, Parncll held meetings in America under tho auspices of the Fenian leaders, who were responsible for the invasion of Canada, and whose "platform" was tho realisation of Emmet's dream that Ireland should "tako her place among tho nations of the earth." At ono of these meetings, Parncll stated: "And let us not forget that this is tho ultimate goal at which all wo Irishmen aim. None of us, whether wo are in America or in Ireland, or wherever wo may be, will bo satisfied until we have destroyed tho last link which keeps Ireland bound to England." In 1905, his successor, John Redmond, stated in Parliament: "If he believed there was tho smallest reasonable chance of success, ho would have no hesitation in advising his fellow-country-men to endeavour to end the present system by armed revolt." His brother and colleague, Jlr. W. E. Redmond, has stated: "Come what may, we will work as long as we have life tor the consummation of that object for which our fathers worked far more bitterly than we may bo called upon to work, until wo have made.lreland a nation, and given her a harp without a crown." Ay, "a harp .without a crown,' and so the Nationalist Dublin corporation will not receive our King on his approaching visit to Ireland. Some people appear to think that the kind of Home Rule at present proposed will scttlo tho Irish question. Far from being settled, tho trouble will only really begin! In view of these facts, in view of tho declared intentions of the Nationalists as stated by their responsible, leaders. n is difficult to understand on what grounds loyalists in New Zealand can support, financially or otherwise, tho Nationalist envoys who are beginning a campaign for funds in this countrv. One of these envoys is tho son of Joint Redmond, and the, nephew of W. E. Redmond. Perhaps he will explain away tho meaning of the declarations of his father and his uncle.—l am, etc., UNIONIST.