HOME RULE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1455, 6 November 1911, Page 5

HOME RULE.

MR REDMOND IN LONDON.

•JPrew AfißOciatloti. —By Telegraph.— Copyright). London, Saturday.

Mr Redmond addressed a crowded ■ meeting in-the City Liberal Club on the "economic and financial aspect of Home Rule. 1 He declared it had been England's deliberate'policy for two centuries to destroy Irish industries. Hence Hhc commercial and industrial history v of Ireland' Was one of continual stagnation. It was hopeless to expect Ireland would rouse herself until she ob•tained a native Government. During '•■ the greater part of a century she was Ipaying two and a quarter millions above sier fair proportion. During the century she contributed three hundred and twen-ty-nine millions for the Army and Navy .md the general purposes of the Empire. '-The Irish Government was the most .' costly in the woild, because it was not a willing partnershi pwith one of the "riftest countries. The cost of every luxury given to En gland was extended to Ireland richest couritries. Every luxury was "giverf to England, extended to Ireland and charged to Irish revenue; there was no incentive to economy. Let Britain : make a bargain with'lreland in a generous, final settlement. Parliamentary business was so congested that Home Rule was equally required for England, Scotland, and Wales. The remarkable feature of the meeting was Lord Beauchamp presiding, and the Master of Elibank moving a vote of thanks to Mv •Redmond.