Show A SUGGESTIVE TRUTH i It is related that when in Dublin recently Secretary BALrouR met a Catholic priest who doesnot belong to the Nationalistic party and who has held aloof from the politics of the country confining himself him-self to legitimate church work Thinking that he would be a good person from whom L to obtain an impartial expression of opinion opin-ion tha secretary asked Are the Irish people as bitter against me as certain newspapers say they arel The reply was Since youh ve asked me I will tell 1 you the truth If our flocks hated sin half r I as cordially as they hate you there would be no use for priests in Ireland Itis not recorded what BAXVOUK said What he should have said was that he would return to London and ask parliament to at once amend the lawsso as to give to Ireland a government govern-ment that would be in some degree satisfactory satis-factory to the people and that if parliament parlia-ment declined to act on his suggestion he would resign his office That would have been the manly thing to have said BAT FOTJU has not been harsh and cruel of his own accord nor because his nature delights de-lights in oppressing his fellows Ho has enforced the laws as they were intended to be enforced carrying them into effect inspirit in-spirit and letter For doing this he has incurred the personal emnity of the Irish people one and all of whom hate him intensely and many of them are r so bitter in their hate towards him that they would not hesitate to conspire for his violent taking off Asa As-a man he is not to blame The laws are at lault It will not do to put the blame upon the people and say they are all wrong Entire communities do not go wrong on matters of this kind The Irish people want home rule they want to govern themselves them-selves to administer their own laws by their own officials It is possible that self government would not be as good as that provided by Gteat Britian it is not at all improbable that home rule would prove injurious in-jurious to the people and the country but home rule is what the Irish demand and what should be granted in the interest of peace and humanity and as a matter of right The very best man in England even GLADSTONE himself could not govern Ireland under the present laws without bringing down upon his head the execration execra-tion of the Irish people |