ULSTER’S OPPOSITION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 121, 7 May 1912, Page 5

ULSTER’S OPPOSITION.

MR. REDMOND OBJECTS TO AN ALTERNATIVE. [PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.] (Received 6, 2.55 p.m.) London, Maj' 5. Mr. Redmond is dissatisfied with Sir Edward Graj’’s hint of the possibility of an alternative solution to meet Ulster’s opposition. The Nationalists suspect a proposal will be forthcoming to meet Ulster’s special case. AT THE OLD GAME. A LAND RIOT. (Received 7. 9.55 a.m.) London, May 6. Fourteen farmers at Roscommon were committed for trial for rioting and assaulting a policeman in connection with a land dispute. “When IRELAND GETS HOME RULE.’’ A PESSIMISTIC PROPHECY. A prophetic Ulsterman, confident that he “has the gift,” tells me (“Civis,” in the “Otago Times”) what is to happen when Ireland gets Home Rule. Of, the fight witii L'ister he saj’s nothing ; that will take care of itself and needs no prophet. But as respects the Irish proper he is explicit. First, thej' will abolish the hated British flag. At the Irish National Convention just held a motion by Mr. Redmond accepting the Bill was carried “amid the greatest' enthusiasm and the unfurling of the green flag of Ireland simultaneously.” Good-bye to the Union Jack ! Next the Irish Parliament will stop enlistment for the British army. Irish regiments onty w’ill be tolerated in Ireland, ar.d w'ill take orders from Dublin. Should the expected war with Germany arrive, then will come to fruit the oft-quoted maxim —“England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity.” Ireland will' bj’ no ineans help the Germans, being quite aware that under Germany there would be no Horae Rule. But neither will she help England. She will declare her independence and—like Lord Miner—“damn the consequences.” No doubt the forty million British might conquer again the four million Irish if thej r had the mind, and if they had a Cromwell at the head of them. But they wouldn’t have the mind, and thej- certainly have no Cromwell. Instead they have the Jaboui' unions, the socialists, the peace-at-any-price Little Englanders. Of course, an Independent Ireland would still be protected bj’ the British fleet, as long as there was any British fleet. British self-interest would necessitate that. Irish military energies would thus be left free for the civil war w’ith LTI- - Under Irish Home Rule all this must come to pass eventually. Or—as an Irishman might saj-— eventually, if not before.