ULSTER'S THREATS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 34, 9 February 1914, Page 5

ULSTER'S THREATS.

NATIONALISTS WILL NOT HEED. THE PATH TO CONTENTMENT. SPEECH BY MR REDMOND. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) LONDON, February 7. For the first time the National Liberal Club entertained Mr John Redmond (Leader of the Nationalist party) at dinner by the party the club had known, dinne rby the party the club had known! When Parnell dined with the club after the defeat of the first Home Rule Bill, he was the guest of only a section of the club, though the visit was noteworthy through Parnell shaking hands with Earl Spencer, who had been Viceroy of Ireland during the fierce campaign in connection with the Land League. Mr Redmond was given a stirring ovation on rieing to speak. He declared that the Tory party was without a programme or policy, and was now falling back on poor Ireland for a party cry. Irishmen would no longer submit'to be made the pawns and playthings of British parties.

OLD ROTTEN SYSTEM. Ireland would never submit to be governed by the old, rotten system of superiority and ascendancy. If its opponents succeeded and killed the bill, Ireland would be absolutely ungovernable under the old regime. Any Nationalist concession to meet the fears of any section must be the price paid .for conciliation, assent and agreement to the bill. Concessions on any other basis would be mischievous and futile. The question must be settled here and now. ■ The speaker added: "Nationalists will be fools, cowards, and traitors to their highest interests, to the liberty and to democracy, as well as to Ireland, if they ai low any threat of violence to turn them by a hair's breadth from the path they believe and know will lead to a contented Ireland and a united Empire." READY FOR CONCESSIONS. The opposition to Home Rule was less on the merits of the bill than to the Parliament Act, and the desire of the Government to abolish the veto by the House of Lords. The speaker reiterated that the Nationalists were in readiness for every concession consistent with Home Rule and Ireland's integrity, but, unless an agreement was reached, the bill must pass as it stood. The Unionists in the House of Lords are expected to move an amendment to the Address-in-Reply, asking the King to grant a general election-