HOME RULE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 299, 11 September 1908, Page 7

HOME RULE.

IRISH DISSENSION THE MAIN ENEMY. MR. REDMOND'S WARNING. 'THE NEWCASTLE WEST SCENE. (d'i TEI.EGRAril —ritESS ASSOCIATION—COI'IRiaBT.) / (Rec. September 10, 11.40 p.m.) / London, September 10.' / Mr. John Redmond, Leader of tlio Nationalist party, speaking at Waterford prior to sailing for New York, said that unless the Government fulfilled their pledges they would speedily fino Ireland ungovernable. Compulsory powers wero absolutely necessary to secure a complete settlement of tho land question; but unloss Irishmen relinquished personalities and concentrated all their energies in a united effort for reform, their demands would not be conceded. Scones like that at Newcastle' West were a discredit and a disgrace, and sooner than again participate in • internecine strife, he would quit Irish politics : altogether. Mr. Redmond added that tho only human agency capable of seriously delaying the realisation of their hopes for Home Rule was dissension among themselves. DEFECTS OF LAND PURCHASE SCHEME. In his speech in which he endorsed the proposals of the Royal Commission on the Congestion of Ireland, Mr. Birrell pledged the Government to the principle of including grass lands in the land purchase operations, and also, to some extent at any rate, to tho principle of compulsory purchase. Mr. Redmond recently wrote to the. Prime Minister a lotter to the same effect as his speech reported above. Mr. Asquith, in reply, promised to legislate before tho end of the autufnn session on the lines the Irish party suggested. ' 1 Tho disorderly sceno at Newcastle 'West (County Limerick), reported in Tuesday's issue, arose out of friction between the rural and the urban tenants over the impending sale of the Earl of Devon's estate at Newcastle West. A meeting was interrupted on the plea that Mr. Wm. O'Brien (Nationalist) disapproved it, and Messrs. Kettle and Gwynn (Nationalists) were assaulted. The police having secured peace. Mr. Kettle, in a speech, said he now half doubted the fitness of the people for Home Rule. Ho wanted Home Rule to be tho rule of reason and argument. 1