"KING EDWARD" CARSON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8411, 13 November 1912, Page 6

"KING EDWARD" CARSON.

I.v the course of a character sketch ( on Sir Edward Carson in the London "News" A.G.G. writes:—What,is. the! motive that converts this masterful! ■man .of the world into a passionate crusader? Why does he shed tears on the platform? It is not, as-I have said, expediency; nor is it patriotism, jior is it even the Union, for its own sake. The motive is the Ascendancy of his caste established and maintained by the Union. For a century or more"the Orangemen have had Ireland under their he-el — The crown of the causeway in market or stroet, And the rascally Papishes under our foot. "With the- Castle- at their back, they have held Ireland like a conquered province—they have held it as the British hold India. They have planted their nominees in every fat job; .they have.controlled the administration ; the police have been an instrument in their hands; justice has 'been the tool of their purposes; the law has i)wn of their'fashioning-and the-judges of their making. And now the Ascend■jihcjvMs. done. The ■'■■■outworks.'"have gone; the walls' are crumbling. Landlordism, lias been put to flight. The Irish people are emerging from the dni-t- They have their land ; they, have their local councils; they stand e-rc-ct mid ask for full freedom in their own household. The whole fabric of Ascendancy is collapsing before our eyes. A hew Ireland is dawning ocross the ■..■Channel. And against tho 'dtuvn there stands n figure baleful and heroic, ' 'the new day—n-figure emblematic of an ancient tale of wrong and of a..night, that is past.