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Home Rule For Ireland

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
August
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

W. Bourke Cochran, who has given much attention while abroad to conditions in Ireland with reference to the issue of home rule, declares that it will soon come to pass as a result of the land bill just passed.  He holds that the grasping landlord has been not only the cause of Ireland's woes, but the hitherto insurmountable obstacle to home rule.  But with this landlord eliminated from the problem home rule is certain to come in on the back track.

 

The new land act provides a way for eliminating dual real estate ownership by gradually buying out of the landlords.  In order to facilitate the transfer, the government will advance $60,000,000 to make it worth the landlords' while to sell their holdings.

 

Mr. Cochran thinks the land bill removes the only reason for allowing the Irish people to settle the conditions of their own government.  He believes, too, that the country will now rapidly forge to the front.  He thinks the new land act will stop Irish emigration to the United States.  The native people can now remain on their native health and not be obliged to seek homes elsewhere in order to make a living.

 

Of course every American hopes this may prove true.  Americans believe in home rule and hope the Irish people may receive it and make the most of it.  This principle as understood in the above statements does not mean separation, but home rule in a similar sense to what it means to the individual states of the American Union.