NATIONALIST ARMY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 154, 30 June 1914, Page 5

NATIONALIST ARMY.

CAMPAIGN FOR ARMS. HOUSE TO HOUSE COLLECTION. BIG SUPPLIES WANTED. Py Cablo.—Press Association. —Copyright! (Received 8.50 a.m.) LONDON". Juno 29. A house to bouse collection lias been ; organised by the Nationalist Volunteers throughout llritain to purchase aruij. fhurch iloor collections will sl>o bo mude. The fund will l>e o]-<-iiri on July 1. , . and the campai.ua will last a month. The committee points out that arm.and ammunition can be purchased advantogeouslv only in if-Tpf quantities and that :i. 'standard weapon is procurable only through a central authority. Darin" the on I be Home Rule Amending Hill last week, the -Marquis of Crew. Lord Privy fi-ul. by whom I the ball was introduced, prefaced m- . >l>eerh by explaining that when he nien-j, tinned, the other day. that Sir Kdward Carson had piven Mr. Asquith :i map showing 'ihr- distribution .>i" the L'nuHiUt volunteer force in l'l-ier he had not the slightest intention of treating Mr Kdward Carson unfairly, or m t-upgcwtiu}i that he w-.is en<rag!Hj; in any kin.l nf| traji'saction without, the knowledge of . his ]>arty. Sir Edward Oar.-on was the last man to tre:il secretly vn any su:>- . jeet. Cre.we went on to say thai. having had opportunities oi judginji. from .■xperienee- of men of no polilieal bias who had recently been in Ireland. Uie more convinced h:id he liecome of the profundity of the religious dilhYulty which, he believed, was the ba.fi« of till , trouble over l"l-ler. Thut. no <lonl»t. added jireatlv to the r-.eriou.-ne-- of the situation. When the p<-r-uli.ir temper which existed in ihe North of Irelarrd w.ls added to ihe fe.ir- foundi'd on the contempt that some bii.-in.-." ine.n there entertained for the capacity and character of ;he jMioplc further -oiilh. it .-fe;ned to make it imperative to propose ■iiimo form of ex-hisiuii for ttii- part of Ireland. Tlip (t.ivprnnii-nt never |>r.[.■<-••■! t"> Admire ;he exclusion plan: ii preferre.l ;•> i.ffer practical autonomy, but. since it \\.i- nri'o-sjry to μ-n n!"nj- r the p:i:h of exclusion ivh'at area should be e.vi-lnde-.IV The ixekision of ihe whole of I'Wter would be not a clean but a cm. 1: wfluli be an arbitrary. .1 purely urtiliri.il arrangement. There wel'e I.o00.00l) peop!" in n-ler. (KIO.WKI of whom were I .liholic-. If they excluded the whole, whai about Cjvan. vvhi-r.-there were 74,000 Catholic* in n popnlaijon of n 1.000. or when' there were 13.",000 Catholics in a population •of n>0.000? The Ministry"-) dilution nf ' tJie problem was eonuuned in the offer 1 made by llr. Asquith in March. I AVitiiin three months of the iKi.-.-in:: of | ' tiie Act any county in X'!-ier would be • entitled to lake a poll. If the majority • favoured exclusion then the Act would ' not apply in thai county. That repre- ■ sented the political and relijriou- line of ; demnreation. 'Hie question then arose, for what period .should an sirea be excluded? The Cabinet adhered to the term of six years from the first meetiiii: of the Iri-h Parliament—thai was to -iy. somewhere about seven year? from the pro-.-ent date. After two _•■ n< !>1 eV.iions l'arlia-l incut would have Unally to ensider the question whether in■-1u -i• > n «i these I area* should take pi:i<-i.. P.-nnaiient exelusiiin w.i- i:r,;-.i-.-ib!.-. bee.iu-i; they I !>.:d no jviwer to bind the actions of any I future l'arli.imein. Civil government . in tii" excluded area* would be exorcised by tin , Ijord-l.ieuTrnani through the olli- . <i'rs of .rdeparime:il n? the Mini-sier of | . ihe Crown allotted to deal villi Iri-hl . hn-ine--. l-'roin :he excluded .'.reas n..| j members would ;o the lri.-!i House of . Commons, hn: every ivm-itiiuoney would f send a representative to the Kn-ilish ('omui on-. , lyonl Crowe added that it was fully j ! anticipated that many amen.lment? would ,- be moved, and that -.:1I would receive the I most careful consideration. ; 'Hie M«.r<|ilU ->f L.insdowne that he luid listened to Lord Crewe with feel- ,. of profound disappoint men;. Th<~4e . propolis were c.itL'L'ori.-ally an.l em I ph-Jlica!ly refute.; in' M-.ireJi. demolished I 1 in argument, and rcfu?ed by the I'nion- .. i»t« in both llou-es. Lord Lansdownc porntpd ont thai the bill would leave the Home Rule yoke certain ;ire;n- in which there w-.is now a small Nationalist majority, bnt in which there was also a, l.irjre "Utnority greatly preponderant in point of wealth. education and indti.-try- These mimjriires were bound by tiie to the counties that wiiild be excluded, and those c.'iiiilics iv,-re bound li> their frie.mis in other parts of U-icr liv oht ligations and .-i solemn f-nvrnani. The tini" limit would hnposo upon th*i excluded eoimties a prolunp-d peri™] of i ] unre.st and insecurity, enrins which it I would be absolutely impossible for tlie . inlra.bitant-1 to seiile down undvr ilie -'new or.ler. The Government wished 0 1 Is*'er to remain wjtb a not/se round her ne.'k that eonld be tifjb'ienedany minute. n The <inly reason why Ministers altered - the orisrimil scheme was thai it. meant c civil war. Tho real te>l of 'lie amends bill was whether i; would avert civil war. and. speaking frankly, it. ilid not. y The Cabinet did nor <jt"iT more because •I.Mr. Kedmond had announced lUnt these y I terms represented tlie extreme limit of -the con.-essinns Jie was prepared 1 .j 0 make. liari firay said lie had found that, in s Australia. New Zealand, and (.imada I there was only one opinion, and that was 1 : that iir. A-quith was not a free suites- :. i man. Hither the Government could s ; .-imimon a convention fairly representae ; tire of all parries i<> consider tiie posiI.jtion, or. if this was impossthle because 11 of party interests, then patriotism Uβijm.inded a u'eneral el«c-tion. s