Show IHELAND AND THE TRANSVAAL In the Dublin Independent is a racy letter from Mr Morctou Frcwen In reply re-ply to a letter from the pen of Mr William Wil-liam Redmond We copy o portion of It below and commend It to the thoughtful perusal of such Irishmen and IrishAmericans in thia country as think that overt acts on tho part of Irishmen in this country In favor of the Boers will help their native land Ills as follows Slrl am sure that Mr William fled mond will not expect nu to reply to all tho numerous and Interesllng points ho ralsta In the leilvr you juibllsncd on thin 4th His pencral calC however for the TraiiHvnal ho fairly Mutes In tin follow ing words 8uipoK4 a very I largo number of Frenchman or Kuaslnnu nettled In Eng I land and won dlssallnllod with Englands rcRlstrLlloa laws would that bo any Justi fication for a licnch or JluMylan army to Invado KiiKlnnd 1 Yes That IH exactly my position A 1rench or Russian army would be JustllUd In invadIng England Jf tho day ever comes that iwothlrdH of tho population of these Islands arc French and pay ninetenths of tho luxe 1 hold that thin groat major ity would be untltkd to Betilc its own fnmchitfi and that fulling thll a French Invasion of Rngland would be entirely JiiHtllled And not only JuKtlllcd but i should regard with contempt both Russia and Franco did they fall to Invade us And lot mo go even further and any Unit wcro n majority of the population III England Frenchmeuund were they taxed to tho lull without any representation In our Parliament that then UURMU in thu namo of liberty ought to Invudu Kngland Thero might Indeed be reasons of public policy to restrain her but there would bono bo-no moral reason And by parity of argument argu-ment If Air Redmond will apply It to Ireland also hi arrives at the foundation of lliu homo ruin drmniil Governments dorlvo their just powor from the ronuciit of tho governed and wherever this COII Bent Is withheld whether In the TnuiK vual or In livland the Government In a tyranny foreign Intervention Is Justified and iho empire IH I unsafe These arc tho argument which Intro ulwuys Impelled mo to home rulo Its Juuttco and its expediency ex-pediency Mr William Rodmond then will forgive for-give me for Plating tho position III my own way in tho way frli > ndh of home rule tha world over regard the present crisis III tile history of norm rule Ills ilrst duly was to Ireland IL should havo asked himself Does my attitude on this TruiiK vnal issue help tho homo rule movement or does It hinder It For my part I ho I llcve that the homo rule movement because be-cause of the attitude of a group of Irian loaders hats LHJCM dislocated and dlfsl patcd and that having been In full sight of iho promised land wo havo again to commence our wanderings In the wilder J1C98 There hal been two objections to Irish I homo rulo rIte first that we should lililiit nt our gates a traitorous Lpplnla turo 10 that In a moment of national peril Ireland would go over to tho onemy Not at all hati been our reply Ireland autonomous Just IIH Canada or Now zen lunl1 lire would bp a friendly and vigorous 1 unit of a Federal cinplro And what do wo find today Wo hind that on a nue tlon of principle In considering an Issue which mrro Hum any Ismio ot our time ought 10 have attracted till sympathy of every homo ruler Ireland denounces tIm cause of tho Outlandcm at u moment when every ulnglf Jurlliinvnt In tho I empire em-pire IK voting miiM > llon and furnishing irooiiit Here then Is I the manlluMtatlon of t lint l IrrofoiiPllulilf und dunjjerouw op poultlon which haabecrv the ulocklntrado of Unionist orators and what they have so long wanted they have found Tho Hf > c nd i objection to home rulo htiH been that the properly of Il minority In Iro land would b unsafe that a Dublin Parliament Par-liament would como under thi > control of Land Socialists and a Jaciiuorlo And what has happiMieU Mr Davltl whoa I who-a professed SocialIst a very curuo nd f I I I very Intelligent one resIgns fr a Pnr > Ihlm > lIt Hint ho miiy tho hptir devote I himself to a frosh campnlcn u < filnst prl I i nIl ownership In Jano In which tam Jill Igiz ho has Hoourcd the support of Mr I Dillon and Mr OBrlon or they have so cured his jnipnori So Ilifit i In Iho I pnsl I few wocks tho I cfiiirlfucrnl foros I ho alarm of an mplio md the oontnprial i I j I forces tho alarm of u cliifs In Ireland 1 I tlieso I forces which a ymr since woro aul ysccnt und 1011 lp < Ml 1 wore almost ncquloa i out us lo honu rule < have now bctn mobllizod Into a i condition of active opposition oppo-sition such un I never oxpocied lo witness 1 aiiuln dttrlnp tho hlsloiy of hits movement I |