IRELAND UNFIT FOR HOME RULE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 268, 1 August 1918, Page 5

IRELAND UNFIT FOR HOME RULE

• STATEMENT BY MR. BONAR LAW IRISH THEMSELVES TO BLAME London, July 30. Mr. Bonar Law, in concluding the debate, said that he had never listened to it mors unreal Irish debate. Mr. Dillon had not come within a hundred miles of the real difficulty of tho Irish problem, which was due to differences between Irishmen. The talk about the tyranny of England was ridiculous. If tho English Government committed a fault it was by its laxity, Uot its tyranny. We would all like to £ee a settlement of the question, but that could happau only if those who made the demands vrero prepared to look at the whole facts of the case. The Unionist members in the present Government were prepared to introduce a Bill to give effect to some sort of solf-governmeut in Ireland in order to get rid of Home Kulc, oven if they alienated a large section of their party. It was impossible to put any form of Homo Rule into operation in Ireland at present. No sane man would suggest handing over the government to, tho Sinn Eeiners. The Nationalists should recall the altitude of Irishmen all over the world, who not only wanted liberty, but were willing to fight for it. "Do men who hold back in this great struggle," he asked, "really represent tho principles for which we are lighting?"—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asbii.