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Show IRISH HOME RULE. A Brief Uevlew of the Present Aspects As-pects of the Irish Question-Some Question-Some of the Suggestions made Through the English Eng-lish Journals. Once more the Irish question, has become be-come all pervading in the minds of the British statesmen and British journalists. As was predicted at the time of their delivery, Mr. Parnell's recent speeches have become firebrands that have set both England and Ireland afire with theories and . counter-theories for the future government of -the Emerald Isle. The Armstrong-Stead abduction case, the Spanish-German trouble, even the question ques-tion of a Liberal or Tory victory in the approaching ap-proaching English' elections are mere byplay" by-play" and are treated by British statesmen and editors in a perfunctory. manner compared com-pared with the concentrated interest manifested in the action of the Irish party in the nest parliament, and . still further, as to what sort of government Ireland is to have in the immediate future. It is not at all likely that Mr. Parnell himself expects or dreams of securing a dissolution of the. union .with" England and such Irish independence as would make, Ireland a separate nation. And the best interpretation of - his recent speeches is that he has notified the English Eng-lish that he will demand everything.first, . in order to make himself ' strong with all factions of his constituents, and second, in order that he -may the more easily secure such home rule as he really desires. de-sires. " What- Mr. "Parnell -has proposed, in brief, is the restoration of the old Irish parliament,minns the House of Lords,and that this Irish: parliament,- so restored, shall proceed at once to develop Irish industries in-dustries by, a strict system of protection, and he has threatened, with his expected following oL-eighty Irish members, to demand de-mand and secure this or" something akin to this or that he will frustrate the legislature legis-lature of the English parliament, proving that the day of Liberal or Tory party, rule in England is at" an end without accepting accept-ing his dictum and granting his demands. It is a bold move and if it succeeds will, as is seen in a moment, make Mr. Parnell Par-nell the uncrowned king Of England as well as of Ireland. .. . A deep interest was manifested in the question as to how the leaders of English i party statesmanship would treat Mr. Parnell's Par-nell's demands. In his recent speeches i Lord Randolph . Churchill practically ignored the Irish- question. It was too much for him and he contented himself with the assurance that Ireland was getting get-ting along all right without coercion, but the new question was dangerous ground and he wisely let them alone. Lord Hartington, speaking doubtless for Mr. Gladstone as well as for himself and the great body of Literal voters throughout Jingland, declared very . plainly that no heed would be paid to any demand for Irish independence, as proclaimed by Mr. Parnell, but that the work of developing local self-government in Ireland and the work of reform in the lanoVlaws, giving every possible opportunity for peasant proprietorship in a word, that the work of governing Ireland and Erigland with some regard to justice-and the - rights of man would go on if the Liberal party were returned to power. And so Mr. Chamberlain, who it was supposed was at loggerheads with the conservative elements ele-ments of his party, has "followed m the line of Lord - Hartington's own declarations, declara-tions, asserting that English radicals to a man will oppose, tooth, and nail, all Mr. Parnell's schemes for -a repeal .of the union -and for Irish independence, but that a healthy moderate scheme for the domestic government of.Irelandas the natural culmination of all the English liberal radicals have been aiming at for a quarter of a century, will command the support of English radicals m the nest parliament and hence of the entire liberal narfv. So, as has been here predicted, the British liberals are . a unit already, even on the Irish question, and Mr. l ar-nell ar-nell iieed not be uncertain as to what he rn.iv Gxiiect from that side, and probably " the ruling side, of the British nation. i Meanwhile in all leading English Journals Jour-nals the question is being earnestly, discussed dis-cussed as to how Ireland shall be go-erned go-erned anvway. As yet not one prominent frishman-or Englishman has been found to favor the scheme of the repeal of the Union and of Irish dependence as m-volvedin m-volvedin such a repeal. At the ery meetine where Mr. Earnell made his . SSng?st speech, that is, his address to the cStraUaranch of the national league, Mr Healv one of the shrewdest of the WshHp?iy leaders, said that Ire andwas in the presence of the dawn there ap-Samfno ap-Samfno doubt, but whether it would G dawn of a fair and prosperous Syor Slawn soon to be clouded by storm and wreck was not as easy to say. Prominent Irishmen writing to the Lon r don Times and Spectator and to the other leading London journals almost unanimously unani-mously admit that any return of the old Irish parliament or a government- of Ireland Ire-land by any method of independence of England would not be desirable, if it could be secured, -and all hands admit that nothing but a revolution, for which j Ireland is unprepared, could possibly se-j se-j cure such independence. ; - In lieu of such independence the most reasonable suggestion yet returned is that by John Sweetman,of Dublin, published pub-lished in the London Spectator of Aug. 29, wherein he proposes a British confederation confedera-tion after the manner of the United i States, wherein England, Ireland, Scot-j Scot-j land and Wales should have separate 1 legislatures for all internal affairs, all i bearing about the same relation to the united parliament that osf-States bear to the federal government. That these various va-rious schemes for the better government of Ireland are thus freely discussed in sober so-ber English journals by the best talent that England and Ireland can produce is indication plain enough that the days oi Dublin Castle rule are numbered ; that the daj's of any special injustice of British Brit-ish legislation for Ireland are numbered, and that now it is only a question as to what is the wisest, safest and bestarrang-ment bestarrang-ment to be made. Between now and the opening of the next British parliament it is most likely that Mr. Parnell will pee clear enough what it is safe to demand, and that he will demand the utmost that i3 in accordance with justice and with safety for the future of Ireland is beyond a question, and that he : will secure so much is also quite clear. Philadelphia Time3. |