IRISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 219, 19 March 1907, Page 2

IRISH POLITICS.

[BY JBLtiCTRIC rKL&GRArH — COPYRIGHT.] [Per Press Absooi hi tj .] London, March 18. Mr \V. Redmond, speaking atAshington, in Northumberland, said he hoped the forthcoming measure would at least be the foundation of that liberty whereof Irishmen had been deprived for centuries. Mr John Redmond, speaking at Bradford, said tho Government was about to attempt scmo devolution. They wero endeavouring, by tinkering with a rotten system, to reform it. Nothing would satisfy Ireland but an Irish Parliament, with executive responsibilities. If the Government scheme laid a foundation whereon could be built a scheme which gave genuine control in the question of administration alone, and lightened tho financial burden under which Ireland staggered, then, possibly, Ireland might seriously consider whether it ought not to be accepted for what it was worth. The popular convention of the Nationalist forces must decide. He warned tho Government that it must choose between trusting to the people passing a scheme, whether short of Home Rule or not, upon broad, popular democratic principles, and the alternative of breaking with Ireland and the National Party, with the prospect of again attempting to govern by means of the rusty and discreditable weapon of coercion. Mr T. P. O'Connor, at Manchester, declared that if the Lords rejected the coming measure, which must be a reality and not a sham, the Nationalists would 'strike a heavier blow than ever before, in the conviction that it would help to place in the same dishonoured tomb Dublin Castle and the House of Lords. (Received March 19th, 8.43 a.m.) London, March 18. Mr John Redmond, at Liverpool, said that unless the Government were guilty of treachery, great as the violation of the Treaty of Limerick, they were on the eve of great and genuine attempts to give Irishmen I the control of Irish affairs. I