| Show MAY HE LIVE IT THROUGH 1 the british pre kieris in his eighty fourth year and his friends are becoming apprehensive as to his bie ability to hold bold out till his hie ireland for the irysh contract shall aha have been completed on the first brat tuesday in dep september ot of next year the people of the united kingdom will make the great trial that being the time set for the adoption of the new constitution this seems a long time to wait for a man who many years ago passed the allotment but he be seems less apprehensive regarding it than many others anti and yet jet all know that he is most desirous to leave no part of his bis lifework life work to be carried out by his friends that is 18 as to its completion for its practical application and maintenance will of necessity be alto gether in other hands As to Is suggested by the edinburg review for april mr gladstone Is interest ends with the passing and does not touch the working of the bill the difficulties to which it will give rise will not dot be difficulties for him the dangers that it will inevitably cause he be will never be called upon to face there is ie therefore no check on that blind optimism on OB that absolute belief in the abe efficacy of his own legislative proposals which sad experience has taught taugh tan an ever increasing portion of the british people to distrust and to dread mr gladstone has baa evolved out of his own mind a new constitution and no one doubts the sincerity of his conviction that unless it Is prevented by wicked men from becoming the law of the land a new era of peace of good will and of prosperity will dawn both on england and ireland on that happy morning of september 1894 asking what is the fundamental idea of this constitution the review proceeds to show that it is in the portentous principle that the people of the united kinga an form not one nation but two nations and that upon this foundation their political institutions must 11 be constructed and developed it is claimed but not conceded that history that geography that conditions of race that the circumstances of the present age in short abort that facts past aud present prove the fallacy of the theory of irish nationhood which has always been asserted by irish conspirators P and which to is now the claim of irish professional politicians on both sides of the atlantic at w what bat time and in what respect were the inhabitants of ireland ever recounted accounted EL a bation ua Ditt tion loll the review asks does history record the existence of a national polity was there ever an irish flair an irish fleet or an irish army did ireland send its ambassadors to foreign nations nat ione or rt it at its own capital the abe representatives of foreign sovereigns it is quite certain that by no other nation has ban ireland ever been considered a notion at all and that even within the confines of ireland itself th are have never been found those marks and nd characteristics itis which invariably accompany actual nation nationhood hoad I 1 11 1 this la Is narrow if not contemptible and biot not at all germane to the subject wyica whick the usually able edinburg periodical apparently met eer out to dis die COBS that are to be not chope that have nut not been and its conclusions are mainly incorrect too none of the curcuro t kanceo named and least of all that of geography are against the proposition of separate irish nationality but tin in the language of lady macbeth what an if they were gladstone does not propose to nationalize but to WOOL thrall not to separate but to brint bring nearer together and just about nine din t tenths ot of the people in the f freest and most moat progressive and most enlightened nation on earth meaning our own are wishing him godspeed |
