Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-18 | Page 1 | Campaign in Ireland

CAMPAIGN j l fl IN IHLAND I Papal Decree Is Playing j J an Important Part in ' ffl the Contest k ,. . I J J "".." r I I Dublin, Jan. IS. Most of the ac- ' 1 It "tive politicians now having returned f m from a brief holiday, interest in" the : M home rule campaign is becoming raoro jfl acute evory day. During the last few fl 1 ft weeks the Unionists have made much Vk t use of the recent papal decree for- J ; j il bidding Catholics, under pain of ox-' I 'I communication, to summon ecclesl- s 11 asts before the lay tribunals. 1 JJ Patrick O'Donnell, bishop of Rap-i ! ' H hoe has now followed Archbishop j ' Walsh of Dublin in expressing tho J i opinion that the papal decree does m not apply to Ireland. .' cj John Dillon and John Redmond, jm Nationalist leaders, today gavo out jwl statements in regard to the land pur- "Jgl chase in Ireland. John Dillon, in a' ; !ll letter concerning the tenants In tho j JJl County of Clare, who have not been jjl able to effect purchases of their land jij under the terms of the land purchase 1 " act of 1903, which empowered the j a government to lend money to tenants ' m to onable them to purchase their hold- ' jJJM ings, says: f ff "If the lords hold up home rule ' j 1 1 It will be necessary to Institute a' ' jf P campaign on the land question and I W bring pressure to bear on the land- jl Jj lords of the County of Clare to sell . jl their estates on reasonablo terms." L I ' 1 l'i