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Show Home Utile's Setback. Events furnish complete proof of the assertion that home rule will be merged in the larger campaign and will not again come to the front in parliament for some time. The Irish leaders find it necessary, for prudential reasons, to preserve an independent attitude and refrain re-frain from an open alliance with Lord Rosebery, but they fully recognize the practical good sense of his policy. They regret, some of them, the prime minister's indiscreet honesty in declaring declar-ing the necessity of convincing England of the justice of Ireland's demands before be-fore home rule is possible, but his words are almost identical with previous utterances utter-ances of Gladstone himself and of such patriotic Irishmen as T. P. O'Connor. London Cor. New York Sun. |