HOME RULE CRISIS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 72, 17 March 1914, Page 3

HOME RULE CRISIS.

WHATT HE LIBERALS SEEK.

ALLAYING OLD HATREDS,

LOXDOX. March 15. w Winston Churchill (First Lcrd ,Tu Admirals) in a speech at Bradi • il tint a" agreement alone would tl' worth while to recast the Home "i ili'l The Unionists' dutv was *!" jf thev disliked to act the;- must • 'f for a"iii:i' ()r ' tv . and if they won t? could amend or repeal the law The unls -ought to allay old hatreds in i 1 iul and ,10t to ereate ne "' ones - The LiWrals wanted to give tlie Irish l . thow wished, and not force upon * l ' L thev disliked. The offer of Z Wi"itl' 'Prime Minister), on prin. i' «V the last offer the Government "''id or ought to make. If the Tories 00 ted i t "it would only be because ':I ■ preferred shooting to voting. He certain that the first British soldier "Weiiicket killed by an Orangeman tiki raise such an explosion as the Tories little appreciated. It would shake 'be foundations of society, tar E CarL (the anti-Home Rule leader) was rtOUK «n the merits of the question, i ],j.torv would prove him so. Sir E. (Vson thought only of the Ulster Condition which was to graciously confer the matter while the Imperial Parliament stood on tin-toe outside await- ' the verdict. When the speaker looked at the situation as now unfolded ie felt that they had had about enough „f this sort of thing. Mr Churchill, concluding, said that tte Government would not allow itself to be bullied. Doubtless bloodshed would be lamentable, but cowardly _ abdication of the Executive's responsibility would be worse. Law and order must prevail. "fte are not going to have Britain sunk to Mexico's condition," he said, "and if lister seeks peace she knows where to find it; hut* if every concession Is spurned, it lister becomes the tool of party calculations, it' civil and parliamentary systems are brought to a crude flialleniro °f force, and if reckless chatter end's in the disclosure of a sinister revolution, then let us go forward and , )U t these grave matters to the proof."

"COINCTO MAKE GOOD." LONDON, March It. Sir E. Carson in a letter says: "We are going to make good in action ail we have been saying by preparing for a two TC ars' struggle, which will be grave and almost unprecedented in recent history." BILL SHOULD BE PASSED. LONDON. March 14. Mr Devlin (Nationalist member for Belfast, W.), in an article in ' Reynolds' Newspaper,' argues that the Carsonites are irreconcilable. The Bill should be passed as it stands, and the Government should enforce the law against aristocrats who are plotting- rebellion. NO FURTHER MODIFICATION. LONDON. March 14. Sir F. I). Acland (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), speaking at Acton (a residential suburb of London), commenting on the recent debates, said that he had never heard speeches more lacking in statesmanship, sense of responsibility or feeling of human decency than those of Mr Bonar Law (Leader of the Opposition). He added that the Government did not intend to make any further modifications of the Home Rule Bill as they would only lead to further demands.