"HOME-RULE IS DEAD."
(To MI EDITOR. Or TUX. "SPZOTATOIL1
SIR,—In your last issue you advise Free-trade Unionists to vote at all hazards against the Government on the ground that " Home-rale is dead." May I call your attention to what Mr: Redmond said at Tulak only last Saturday P—" la a short
time the Irish party would hold the balance of power in the English Parliament, and the time was at hand therefore for raising once more the banner of Home-rule,"—and so on. Do you still advise us to help a Radical Government to
[Our meaning, as the context showed, was that Home-rule was dead in the Liberal party. To Mr. Redmond it is, of course, alive, and is the price to be paid for support from the Irish party. At the present moment we venture to say that Mr. Redmond believes that he is a good deal more likely to find a purchaser for the Irish vote among the Protectionists than among the Free-traders. Note that the Irish speakers now do not speak, as they once did, of getting Home-rule through a Liberal alliance, but of holding the balance between the two parties.—ED. Spectator.]
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