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Show HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. Will Be Realized Before the Retirement Retire-ment of Bannerman Cabinet. Home Rule for Ireland is again to the front as a leading Issue in Bfltish Pities. Pi-ties. On Menday of -last -week lier Tory ministry gave up the fight and Arthur J. Balfour, the premier, handed in the resignations of himself and of his cabinet cab-inet to King Edward, who accepted them. The premiership has been accepted by Campbell - Bannerman, the Liberal leader. Mr. Bannerman Is outspoken for Home Rule for Ireland Mr. Gladstone's Glad-stone's policy. 'Only last week. In a speech at Stirling, Campbell-Banner-man pledged himself to Home Rule for Ireland. In, a speech since then Lord Rosebery repudiated these sentiments. As a result Rosebery has been denied a place in the new cabint. In his speech at Stirling, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman said the only way to heal the difficulties of the Irish government and to make Ireland strong instead of weak is to give the Irish people the management of their own domestic affairs. John Morley, a staunch Home Ruler, was one of the chief advisors of Sir Henry in drawing up the list of his official family, which was given out last Sunday evening and which is as follows: Prime minister and first lord of the treasury, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman; Campbell-Bannerman; secretary of state for foreign for-eign affairs. Sir Edward Grey; lord higrh chancellor. Sir Robert Threshle Reid, K. C; chancellor of the exchequer, exche-quer, Herbert Henry Asqulth; secretary secre-tary of state for India, John Morley; secretary of state for the colonies, the Earl of Elgin; secretary of state for war, Richard Burdon Haldane, K. C; secretary of state for home affairs, Herbert John Gladstone; lord lieutenant, lieuten-ant, the Earl of Aberdeen; chief secretary secre-tary for Ireland, James B. Bryce. One thing is certain that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has explained his-attitude on Home Rule for Ireland to those Liberal leaders who are known to be opposed to Home Rule on the lines of the last bills Introduced In Parliament Par-liament Since his speech at Stirling, which raised such a furore. Sir Henry has not made any statement, but it is confidently asserted in the Liberal clubs jLhat ha Is 'ready, with a policy, .which ; i . I ' .. . 1. - : . . . ; will secure the adhesion of the Nationalists Nation-alists and at the same time avoid raising rais-ing the issue as one of the most prominent- planks in his platform. Catholic Citizen. The Stage Irishman Must Go. (New York Freeman's Journal.) The Irish-American, of Butte, Mont., one day last week administered a rebuke re-buke to the stage Irishman that was richly deserved. The dead walls of Butte had been covered with posters on which was represented a baboon with the alleged face of an Irishman led around by a negro holding a chain attached to the neck of the baboon. A public meeting was called to denounce this disgusting caricature. Addresses were delivered in which very plain language lan-guage was used. The speakers let It be understood that the Irish Americans of Butte had made up their minds not to submit tamely to the insult the Dreamland Burlesquers proposed to fling at them. The result was that the manager of the Grand opera house came to the conclusion that It would be best not to allow it to be used by the Dreamland Burlesquers for the purpose of vilely caricaturing an ele-.ment-whilst. .their race was made a subject of ridicule. ' We have no objection to giving the Dreamland Burlesquers a free advertisement adver-tisement by thus calling attention to them. We hope that so long as they continue to exhibit the vile caricature of an Irishman which caused the doors of. the Butte Grand opera house to be closed "against them, they" will receive from Irish Americans the treatment they so richly deserve. The American stage Is no place for buffoons who do their best to dishonor a profession that is capable of contributing so much toward to-ward the creating of high ideals. The stage Irishman Imported from London, where he was born of English hatred of the Irish, never was and never will be anything else but a fine excrescence on dramatic art. He should be made to go in the interest of the stage itself. He has been permitted too long to exhibit ex-hibit his Inane and disgusting buffoonery. buffoon-ery. An organized effort on the part of men of Irish blood would result in driving him out of a profession he disgraces. dis-graces. What .was done the other day in Butte should be repeated in every community com-munity where the foul creature makes his appearance. Irish Americans'nwe it to themselves not to permit the theatre to become the means of perpetrating the vile caricature of the Irish character char-acter that has beebrought to these shows from England. Let us make up our mind3 that the stage Irishman must go, and he will not stand on the i order of his going, but go, at once. |
