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Show IRISH HOME RULE. I The operations of the Irish land act are not Progressing as smoothly as the sanguine hoped f or. Landlord and tenant, entertain different notions no-tions about the value of land and the rate to be applied to ultimate purchase. The Dublin Freeman Free-man devotes much space in detailed accounts of and transactions, giving many instances he peasant s desire has made him the prey of the landlord h . the landlord willing to sun-end a condition which vielded the albeit the. imposition LtVnoT' l'T th ie Remaned to tX to his own advantage. Already some have taken steps to form a combination in order to place every obstacle in the way of carrying out the spirit of the land act and applying its provisions fairly. For all of these land abuses and multitude of Irish grievances there is no corrective force so potent as homo rule. Tliis is the opinion of John j Redmond, the leader of the Irish parliamentary ! party.' He boldly declared it the other day in the I Britich house of commons. It was during the de-j de-j bate on an address in reply to the king's speech i opening parliament. Mr. Redmond detailed the j various grievances of Ireland, incidentally inform-' j ing the Liberals that it was a delusion to suppose they could count on Irish support by promising an j alternative policy f home' rulers. Because the j j Irish obtained an act last year 1-cmcdyiug some of the evils of post governments some persons seemed j j to think that the Iri-h question was .-helved, but j no concession could weaken the bill for self-gov-j eminent: On the contrary, every concession they j had obtained or might obtain would be used for the furtherance of the contest for home rule. The Irish would rather govern themselves badly (lion j be governed well by another nation. Mr. Redmond bitterly attacked the government':-attitude government':-attitude on education in Ireland, describing it as grossly absurd and irreparably harmful to the youth of Ireland. The government's course on the Trish university question, he added. wai a dis- j honest evasion of au admitted duty and u gviev- j anec that poisoned the life of Ireland and con- j demned her to failure in the struggle of nations. . i |