MR. REDMOND'S APPROVAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 5

MR. REDMOND'S APPROVAL

THE SPIRITS OF GLADSTONE AND PARNELL. Mr. J. Redmond said that the principle of delegating the management of local affairs to local assemblies was the' foundation of the Empire to-day. No community of white men that had ever asked for this right had been refused. The Nationalists did not want separation. They stand where Parnell stood, and were willing to accept a Subordinate Parliament ac a final settlement. Financially the present BUI was far better than the one of either 18b6 or 1893, and he would, without hesitation, recommend it to the National Convention. In time it would turn Ireland into a happy and prosperous country. The Irish were never intolerant on religious matters, and were willing that any safeguards should bo inserted to meet the views of Ulstermen. lie quoted Gavin Duffy's pamphlet upon Australia's experience in support, of his view that a nominated Senate was far safer than a Senate elected on a narrow franchise. Mr. Redmond hinted that the lNationalisls desired that land purchase should be controlled by tho Irish Legislature. He concluded with. an. eloquent reference to the spirits ol Gladstone and Parnell as dominating the historic scene. Incidentally,, he referred to Sir E. H. Carson a argument that if Ireland had a right to Home Rule, Ulster had an equal right, and asked if Sir E. H. Carson really proposet 1 . this. Sir E. H. Careon: Will you accept it? Mr. Redmond said he would like the proposal to be made first. Mi 1 . Ramsay Mac Donald said thai anominated Senate was more democratic than an elected one. He welcomed the hint that the Bill had been drafted with a view to extension of the prin* ciple to England, Scotland, and Wake.