HOME RULE.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 1883, 25 September 1912, Page 2

HOME RULE.

MORE STRONG SPEECHES

VITRIOLIC SMITH ON ULSTERITIS. BY EIiEOTBIO TELEQBAPH—COPrBIGHT. PEB PBEBB ASSOCIATION. London, September 24. Tho Ulster Unionists' Council, sitting at Belfast, pledged themselves not to allow the domination of men disloyal to the Empire and whose faith and traditions were hateful to them.

Sir Edward Carson stated that Ulster wanted no «jparato Parliament, and would not accept separate treatment.

Mr F. E. Smith, one of the young leaders of the Unionist Party, said there was no question of England betraying Ulster. It was wrong to confuse a great country with a small party. If there was going to be coercion by the present Government, resistance would not be limited to the Ulster Unionists. Liverpool would not stand by idly while Ulster's liberties wero usurped. Rifles would go off of themselves if tho iniquitous Act wero pas,seU. Mr William O'Brien, cabling to Canadian newspapers, suggests that the Liberals and Conservatives of Canada should arbitrate as to what guarantee ought to satisfy Ulster, as a racial conflict in Ireland would be similar to that which once divided the Canadians.

(Received Sept. 25, 10.16 a.m.) Ottawa, Sept. 24.

At Winnipeg at a banquet, Mr Welter Long said the United Kingdom was approaching the gravest crisis in its history. Ulster men were ready to sacrifice their lives rather than accept Home Rule. TETs 'was not mere bluff, despite radical pretensions. What was really bluff was the reported intention of the Government to remove Sir Edward Carson from the Privy Council because of his advice to Ulster men to fight against Home Rule.