THE HOME RULE BILL.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12803, 29 May 1914, Page 2

THE HOME RULE BILL.

(To the Editor.) Sir—Now that the Home Rule Bill lias passed the third reading in the Commons and been submitted to the Lords in a formal manner, but in reality it matters not whether their Lordships consent to the measure or not, the Bill will become operative. Mr Asquith said the Amended Bill would only include any settlement reached before the Bill was introduced. This I take to be the scope of the Amended Bill. We can now calmly survey the terrible party strife and the purpose of such strife on the part of Unionists. There are several momentous measures looming largely 011 the political horizon and probably the Home Rule Bill has been used as a means to prevent such measures being brought forward in reality to oust the Asquith Government. It looks as if Sir Edward Carson has been made a cat's paw to pull the chestnuts out of the fire, and got burnt/for his pains. There can be no blinking the fact that a man in an inferior position to Sir Edward socially would have found accommodation in his Majesty's hotel for half the rebellious-sayings and doings of which Sir Edward was guilty. Had he been a Larkin, Semple or Holland he would bave found free lodgings and been well looked after, and would not have been a member of Parliament to-da\. —Yours, etc., R* McKAY.