The Orange Faction

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 28, 13 July 1905, Page 10

The Orange Faction

The ' Daily Chronicle ' states the case against the Orange Ascendancy Party with admirable frankness. * Fair-minded Englishmen,' it writes, ' can oniy view with disgust the endeavors of tne Change faction to monopolise all offices fn Ireland, and their willingness to sacrifice their country for place and power.' The writer goes on to say that the Orange lodges and landlords ha\e lost whatever influence they possessed with the British electorate, ' which would be ready to welcome a wdUr-con.sidered scheme for the extension of self-govern-ment such as Lord Dunraven has sketched out.' Ascendancy is at present as strong in Ireland as it has been at any time dinning the last fifty years, and. as for the anxiety of the British electorate to do justice to Ireland, it is entftely in proportion to the power and influence of the Irish Party in the House of Commons and the constituencies.