The persistence of terrible crimes in Ireland makes one glad
to observe any glimmering sign of the growth of reason, and in this connexion we must notice a statement published in American newspapers by Cardinal Logue, the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland. According to a message from New York published in the Daily Nail of Friday week, Cardinal Logue disavows the Sinn Fein movement and declares in favour of Dominion Home Rule " within the British Empire." Unfor- tunately Cardinal Logue refuses, or is unable, to see that the cultivation of goodwill in Ireland is much morn important than the particular form of Home Rule Bill which is offered as the beginning of better things. Ho denounces the new Home Rule Bill, calls it a " patchwork quilt," and says that it was introduced " for Sir Edward Carson's benefit." He also argues that it " will give the Catholics no show, whereas in the South and South-West of Ireland the Protestant merchants are among the most prosperous."
