NEED OF MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 244, 12 October 1916, Page 6

NEED OF MEN.

IRELAND'S DITTY. THROUGH WAR TO PEACE. LONDON, August 11. The impasse reached 'in the Home Rule negotiations brought the Coalition Government a severe -eastigation from Mr. John Redmond, the Leader of tbe Irish party,- but Mr. Redmond hastened to reassert Ireland's duty in the great war. Mr. Redmond said:—"Not—withstanding all that -has happened, nothing lias and nothing can have the effect of altering my view about the war, and my view of Ireland's duty towards that war. (Cheers.) Ireland has done her duty and bo far is doing it. (Cheers.) Do not let Englishmen allow their natural indigna-. tion at this mad, wicked outbreak in Dublin of a couple of &no_sand men lead them into the horrible —justice of forgetting there are at this moment, wbea we are assembled here, 150,000 Ins—men fighting, bleeding, many of them dying, on the battlefields of France. In addition there are tens of thousands of Irishmen performing the same gallant task from all your Dominions throughout tlie world. Every day you read of their devotion. No man could have greater sympathy with them than I had,- and no man could have felt greater pride than I did when I read of the magnificent and heroic exploits of the Ulster Division quite recently in France. (Cheers.) That pride was enhanced by the fact to which the member for Dublin University himcelf alluded the other cay, that two battalions by tbe chance of -war of the Dublin Fosiliera, in one of which my own son is serving—fcheers)— all through this terrible fighting of the last month have been side by side with the Ulster Division. Do you think that is a thing that can ever be forgotten in 4he Ireland of the future? (Cheers.) Do you think that the survivors of these men—and God only knows how many there will be —do yon think that the survivors of these men when they return to Ireland will turn their weapons against one another? No, sir. Whatever of evil and misery has come out of this wax, one good has resulted for Ireland already, there never will be an Irish civil war, and when the time is ripe all our differences, I believe, will be peacefully settled, and the goal to which in his heart.l.be-, lieve the member for Dublin University turns, as I do' myself, namely, a united Ireland, will be reached, please God, through the methods of peace and amity." (Cheers.)