HOME RULE PROBLEM.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE PROBLEM.

I ' J CABINET DIVISION. ON * THLSTER'SS EXCLUSION. j ! STRENGTH OF CARSON'S ARMY, (As published in the 'Auckland Star.") LONDON, November 21. ! There is a serious division in the! Cabinet, according to the "Daily Mail."' One section headed by Mr I'hurehill and including Mr Uovri Ce.orgc. sir Kd- ' ward <irey. and Viscount Halda.no. favours the exclusion of Ulster, while the other, including Mr MoKenna.. Mr Runi-i- 1 man. and Mr Birroil. is definitely opppsed to this, believing that the listermen will yield if sufficient form is avail able. Mr Asqllith has not revealed his personal opinion. The I'lstcr volunteer fon-e is now flO.Wn >troii};. MR REDMOND'S PROPHECY. (Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable.) I/INDON. November 21. Mr John Hedmond. in a speech at Birmingham last, night, said that the Homo Rule, Welsh Disestablishment, and Plural Voting Bills would become law daring the life of the present Parliament. It may be wrong and dangerous to say that ('arson ism is waning in t.'lster, hut. at least that is a common opinion: in Belfast, writes the pelfast correspondent of the '"Daily News..'" Last September they who saw the popular reception accorded to Sir F.dward after the signing of the Covenant witnessed a vast dynamic. enthusiasm siJioilt which there could not he two opinions. I raw it myself, and wns very impressed. Its subsidence this year is just as remarkable. The ruthless drum.-- of the Orange lodges lia.v« licon energetically beaten to produce for the display this year the cheering iuiitli-liK-l-— which would put fear into the opposition. They have failed. They ban; rlri\m many of their own followers'indoors. My personal impression is that the ristr-r aristocrats, landlords, commercial magnates and politicians, were plad to use the enthusiasm aroused by Sir I'Mward's personality on I he host of truculent I )rajitjt»men wliosc unvarying | chant is "To noil with the Pope." while. it seemed that that noise would give the! Coverninent pause. 'n«>ir "Protentiuit" community is ;'. spoiled and isolated community, ami still believes, in it.-" simpleminded way. ill t.he efficacy of the rhytlimil- tea tray to kill rvason. The noise has had no ctlV-ct. however, and I think they are now a. little horrified at lindinjr Sir I-Mwanl continues to tak« his part of Mum, with d.-.ullv seriousness. For to continue- logically in the j way they have chosen they must anil ' the working folk; hut their work people j are of the lighting sort, who might forgot their •enemy" the Pope at ally mo-| ment now. A wonderful upheaval, a | change just, as miraculous, is destroying i the old political ami religious landmarks i and barriers in Dublin. And even the! 'must truculent Orangemen, still loyal <o j far Ha appear:)nee-; go. are beginning to I wonder whether they will really have to | face something more dead I v than the crowds in the Kails Toad if they continue drilling.