{"id":2832,"date":"2013-07-13T01:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:44:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:05","slug":"83-bande-mataram-24-5-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/06-07-bande-mataram\/83-bande-mataram-24-5-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-83_Bande Mataram 24-5-07.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tCALCUTTA, May 24th, 1907 }
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\nAn Irish Example
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\nThe refusal of the Irish Parliamentary party under Mr. Redmond’s leadership to have anything to do with the sham the
\nLiberal Government has offered them in the place of Home Rule, is a step on which we may congratulate the Irish people.
\nHad they been deluded into swallowing the bait which was devised for them with such unscrupulous skill by Mr. Birrell,
\nthey would have committed a false step of the worst kind and seriously compromised the Home Rule Movement. It is much
\nbetter that Ireland should have to wait longer for any measure of self-government than that she should commit political suicide
\nby accepting Mr. Birrell’s Bill. We call it Mr. Birrell’s Bill, but in reality it is Sir Antony Macdonnell’s and has the stamp of
\n“Liberal” Anglo-Indian upon it. Its object is obviously to kill the Home Rule Movement by kindness, to break up Irish unity
\nand take the sting out of Irish Nationalism by a sham concession skilfully calculated to corrupt the natural leaders of the people.
\nThe measure proposed was a sort of bastard cross between a Colonial Parliament and an Indian Legislative Council. Its
\nacceptance would have committed Irish politicians to the abandonment of the policy of Parnell and to co-operation in future
\nwith the British Government. The Irish people were openly told that the concession of further self-government would depend on
\nthe way in which they used this precious opportunity, in other words on their abandoning passive resistance and their principle
\nof aloofness from Government and its favours and co-operating with it in a mutilated and ineffectual scheme of self-government.
\nWhat would have been the result, if the Irish people had closed with this very bad bargain? They would not have got Home
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\n\tRule which England is determined never to give them unless
\nshe has no other choice. The local self-government offered to Ireland would have been extended to Scotland and Wales and
\nwhen Ireland demanded Home Rule, she would have been told to be satisfied with a measure of self-government which had
\nsatisfied the other parts of the United Kingdom. The British Government would by that time have broken the solid phalanx
\nof Irish Nationalism and by the bribe of office, position and influence succeeded in detaching from the cause a great number
\nof the natural leaders of the people, men of intelligence, ability and ambition, whose talents would be used by England in
\nkeeping the people contented and combating true Nationalism. In this way the great ideal of an Irish nation for which Emmett
\ndied, for which O’Connell and Parnell planned and schemed and which the Sinn Fein movement is making more and more practicable, would either have been entirely frustrated or postponed for another century. Instead of a separate nationality with its
\nown culture, language, government the Irish would have ended by becoming a big English county governed by a magnified and
\nglorified Parish Council. The same kind of bait was offered to the Boers, but that shrewd people resolutely refused to associate
\nthemselves with any form of self-government short of absolute colonial self-government. The same kind of bait is promised to
\nthe Moderates in India by Honest John and the honest Statesman<\/i>, if they will only consent to dissociate themselves from
\nthe new spirit and all its works and betray their country. The Statesman
\n<\/i>says that Mr. Redmond has been forced to the refusal
\nby the necessity of deferring to the Sinn Fein Party in Ireland, and hopes that the Indian Moderates will not commit the same
\nmistake. Our sapient contemporary opines that the Nationalists in India are not really so strong as they seem and that the Moderate leaders, if they desire to betray the country, can do so with impunity, without losing their influence and position. Well, we
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