REASON FOR SIR EDWARD PERSON'S STEP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8274, 20 October 1915, Page 6

REASON FOR SIR EDWARD PERSON'S STEP.

LONDON, October 19. Tho .=..«.> .papers, except tho "Daily News," r t ; jt Sir Edward Carson's resignation, ...'id pay a tribute to his force of .. -.icter and dugged honesty and deteriamation. Tho ro;>. ./union is due to difference of opiuio'. ';, yarding Balkan policy, not conscript-- ■• ■■ Tho '■.■-. ■..ing lV.st" states that, de spirit Si; ; .vard Carson's urgent counsel, tho ( ;vniment has allowed theq lies do.-! :■■• drifi. "We trust, now that Sir ; yard Carson has resumed a position • freedom, lie will force the Govern uv.:. • to sco the danger it is briu^m,;: ..,on tho country by refusing to look"]'!' a ■ facts in tho face. If Sir Ecivv-a.-'.] I -son leads he will have a following." Nt^.iu. -".s give prominence to the "ManchV.-.: •••.- Guardian's" outspoken leader do-■■ Hiding a frank statement as to the m uurcs required to enable the countr 1. ■■ fulfil its national obligations. 'I i • "Manchester Guardian" says ther "-re a good many indications chafe tho ■; lvornmcnt has no denned news on viis subject . If so unde<jided'j t.::. 1 -Jovcrnment must of neces-• sity be a woak'Government. ;; The "Da;:y News" says the conscriptfonists bc'lieve a Ministeral crisis will result ir- a Conseriptionist Ministry. They bel^vo it is only necessary to get. tho'prudes purged from the present Government, and then reconstruct'"it on Curson-Churchill-Milner lines. This is fatally wrong. Such a Ministry would fouso: the country to bitter resentment. The nation is prepared for any sacrifices, but : < looks with profound alarm and indignation at those who are making its pQiiils the sport of their personal ambitions. The "Da:!y. Chronicle" says that, unless'the/compulsion, zealots restrain themselves they will jeopardise the existence, of the' Government and 'destroy tho unity of the nation.. The attempt fco mslr a decision on conscription until Lord Derby's plan has been, fairly and 'honestly ■ tried, is inimical to the best jjiifceL-esta; of'; the. nation. The only way that the.nation can be induced to acquiesce in compulsory service is an asburanco by sympathisers with voluntary principles like Mr Asquith, Lord Kitchener,' Sir Edward Grey, and Mr Bajfour, that voluntaryism will not give tho men needed.