HOME RULE MOVEMENT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 10, 29 June 1888, Page 17

HOME RULE MOVEMENT.

tE publish in another column an exceeding important letter from Dr Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, in reference to this movement and the famous Decree of the Congregation, condemning boycotting and the Plan of Campaign. It i 8i 8 to be hoped that this letter will have the effect of calming minds, and bringing back people's attention to the main question That question is simply Home Bule for Ireland. It was hoped that, by the interference of Rome, • side issue would be raised, which having the effect of exJKT a XX nßhmenn Bhmen / n ft the Holy Father, would divide them and thus as of old, enable their enemies the more Z 7 J° T?!t ° n - n * hte » liberties, m d prosperity of Ireland. But there is now an end to all such hopes. The SfCli? I" Bot .. Bth « din *«yor indirectly interfered in the polit,ca queat.on, but confined itself exclusively to moral considerations. On the Ht-frJTv * * 7 s<mt*d *o ;♦ tu n . stateme nt of facts pr«which the ' n 0 ? gI ? toll of th « Inquisition, of Camnaitn JTu' P . resident > de^red the Plan of to eS/wh ,K bb ° yCOtting LUnlawful'L Unlawful ' We *° «>* ■** made to thil P ' * .- rUthM rc P res entation has been ?nd I boycott «« C ° n^** lon ' beea ™« Plan of Campaign m7retS cg g in Bre *"*?!*» aeßtion ' * nd h ™ *»» SHSi . ?r greafc drama ' never •* integral part of NaZal T™ Soire Rule, and never sanctioned by the meS ont^V b ? nßh appr ° Ved of BOrne " h0 " «« Si oSs h^;; th /. eB / er of evil8 ' and merel y as a mean «> thousands iv g failed ' to Bave the P™P<*ty and lives of naturaTco n i bOn /^ aßd Useful citieens - These means, in the thSw^Ml things must have soon come to an end, for rZTrJ. ° ldly /T rd t d by very mm * of the beßt f " end « of Srh.dbL" d theyhad Dearly done the ™ k *» whkh tiv/lv Ip«T mm * v^ ated - B «* Dr. Walsh has authoritaSt effSS^S T- Id the , fßct ' that for y ears the moßt incesPowto^n? ln s gaeß . haTe been cm P lo y ed to induce the aSntl H™ p D , he B , gitation f ° r Home Rule, M d ooiwewhcknoll™l ?U? U J c ltßelf • From the Archbishop of Dublin, slstent aTI ♦*♦ he J friteß abont ' we learn that most per^ to effect 1? e ?°!l 8 baVO been made P° werfal Pities condemLS 8; ,?u d £■* these P arties care nothing for the SXv t ° f *fe Plan and Wcotting. It was\ot for Mrth but fn Md mOVI ' Dg ' fIS * "*"> heaVeQ a » d ment' of 1 ?' ai £ ther ?u? vr Poße'P 08e ' and in order to the attainArchbi s h?n te f ano ? er e . nd * Bnt in this ' to ÜBe tbe of the now IriS the y ha^ ci gnominiously failed. Thank God! And m^niouslv f°f ?* 7^ reathe freely - Their enemies have «"oSXS? J 6d * 7 eS ; the enemse8 ' b °tb Catholic and nonwTthstin^ P T ° Id Ir6land have failed, notwithstanding almost superhuman efforts, to extort either by aecejt, cajolery, promises, or threats from the Holy Father, eitoera condemnation or even a disapproval of the efforts IrifihfeSJTl *"£**> m the mid st of unparalleled tyranny and snfitnngs to obtain from their oppressors the leave to lire and «mve m their nutivs Knd. On the contrary, according to reilS^T ° f D , r WALSH ' what the Ho] y See bas don « will in l^J 7- P °\ thQ Home Rale movement, and secure for it a speedy triumph. At home and abroad the efforts of the men who regard Irishmen as an inferior race, unfit for the functions of government, and only to be regarded a? Bpefui i*t>

fttruments to aggrandise some English laymen andecolegiastica, and help them to play the great men in London; and to furnish the sinews of war to spread Catholicity to thr fiaat of the Irish Sea, have ignominiously failed.* To spread Catholicity is a good thing, but not to be secured at the expense of the tears and blood of Irishmen in Ireland. These men have now learned, we hope, once for all^ that it is in vain for them to call on the Pope to censure Irishmen when seeking for their country, not only its rights, bat the rights of our common humanity. Not only has every effort that intrigue and cunning coqld suggest been made, but tactics not honourable, nor, indeed, honest, have been employed to keep Irishmen in the dark, so that the enemies of Ireland should the better sacked in thefr schemes. There is now before our mind's eye a c tain newspaper which, whilst Home Rule for Ireland seemed to be a very remote contingency, was an ardent advocate of Home Rule, but which, nevertheless, the moment a great statesman adopted the question and endeavoured to give it legislative sanction, turned right round, and, whilst stinging with the venom of an exasperated wasp the men it formerly applauded, persistently and bitterly endeavoured to defeat the measure, it had up to this time advocated. This is a specimen of some of our would be friends, so long as we are no* likely to succeed, but of out real enemies, who astutely lie in wait to give the decisive kiok at the opportune moment. The many sad experiences Irishmen have had of treason to their cause and of desertion and heated opposition in important crises ought to be to them a warning as to what they may expect from those who advocate their cause from interested motives. But do Irishmen always take warning f Their faith and devotion are made use of by knaves not a few to help these to forward their own. interests, and, at the same time, by intrigues at Rome, to defeat their most legitimate and cherished hopes. These efforts at the Court of Rome have proved abortive— thanks to an over-ruling Providence rather than to any other cause. Will the efforts made by far-seeing and devoted Irishmen to save their countrymen from being victimised be equally successful ? Or wi,ll Irishmen, in their simplicity, still allow themselves to be made dupes of by loud-mouthed, but insincere, advocates, who only await the fitting opportunity for betraying them ?