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Show Michael Bavltt Talks of Irish Affairs. Af-fairs. London, December 23. Michael Davitt, in the Pall Mall Gazette of to-day, says the Liberals and Tories have both resolved upon the same thing for Ireland. " Half-way measures - have been the curse of that country. The Nationalists would agree to a minority representation in the Irish Parliament, Parlia-ment, but a colonial situation is better than a dual parliamentary representation. The interests of the empire would be amply guarded by the veto power of the crown. It is ridiculous to demand further guarantees from the five millions of people less than four hours' sail from one of the most powerful power-ful empires in the world. Why not demand guarantees from Jersey and the Isle of Man with regard to religion? He says that if guarantees are required to protect what no Nationalist dreams of molesting, there will not be the slightest reluctance to give the most ample ones. No one dreams of perpetuating Irish landlordism. Its existence exist-ence would be as impossible under the rule of the Irish Parliament as it is at present under the protection of the Imperial Parliament. Parlia-ment. He refused to believe that Chamberlain Chamber-lain and the British democracy will take a hostile attitude, and says, in conclusion: "The three great Irish problems have been religion, land and nationality. Gladstone settled the first; he twice attempted to solve the second, and now he approaches the third. The result will be either an utter failure or a finality." . i |
