MESSAGE TO AUSTRALIAN SYMPATHISERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 7

MESSAGE TO AUSTRALIAN SYMPATHISERS

JOHN REDMOND SPEAKS OUT ORANGE PLOT REVEALED. WIDER ISSUE THAN HOME RULE. , (Received March 25, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. 24th March. Reuters Agency has beet? requested to send the following as Mr. John'liedmond's statement to Australian sym* pathisers :— "The Ulster Orange plot has now been completely revealed. Sir Edward Carson and his army have not, nor never had. the slightest inten- • tion of righting. As a fighting force against the Regulars they could not hold out a week. The plan was to put up the appearance of a fight, and then, by society influences, seduce Army officers, and thus intimidate the Government and defeat the people's, will. The action of the commanders in some of the crack cavalry regiments, officered by aristocrats, i has now fully disposed the plan of campaign. The issue raised is wider even than Home Rule ; it is whether a democratic Government is to be browbeaten and dictated to by the drawing rooms of London and a section of Army officers who are aristocrats and violent Tory partisans. The cause of Irish freedom has in this fight become the cause of popular freedom and ordered liberty throughout the world. Ii is impossible to doubt the result of such a fight. The second reading will be taken on Monday, and the Bill proceeded with until it finds a place on Uic Statute Book." "