SIR EDWARD CARSON'S ASSOCIATES

Maoriland Worker, Volume 6, Issue 244, 20 October 1915, Page 6

SIR EDWARD CARSON'S ASSOCIATES

Tug police raid upou the Manchester ,aud London oflice.s of tho "Labour 'Leader , ' and tho trial in camera, lend • somo particular intorcsL to iho facie iwo print h< re. Tho immo of Sir Edna id Carbon unnr • Attorney O'ouernl in tlio Cabint'i of all : ilii> talents,) osirries ahmys tho siis^t:-- ,- tion oi ifljfllion in L'l.-tiT and the j. memory ol a Volunteer t'oree. The J' niovoinoiit based upon Sir Edward's >>•<■■ 'triotisiii wo will nut say nns pro-Gor-nian (as tho '".Morning Post - ' soreadily speaks oi Mr. Morel's agitation tor a cloansin;; of tho Conrrol, but. some, of tho Ft.'i-teincuts from Sir l'Jclwaid'i> ay ." sociatef. wore, vry iJchniia in their r< >■ , foronees to Germing and its ruler. FJiu , iii an jm-tancv ; The "Morninp Post" on December ' 10, .1910, published an interview between its Belfast, correspondent- and ;tho Rt. Hon. Thomas Andrew?. T.C. hon M'orotni-v of Hip Vbter Unioniri Council. T!m? ~ood friend of th" Attorney -Gencrr> I d<: rh rod i ! r.an only- m> for myself ■ *nd I believe for mv rolleaguee. that it we 4re deserted by Groat Britain. I : WOULD RATHER HE GOVERNED jBY GERMANY than by Pal nek lord and John .Redmond and cmni panj. r ,Tlic fiiiw "Morning I'oit.' , non sn ! kcon on dubbing overy lovor of pcn.cp 'and every of diplomatic intrigue ;n- "I'ro-Gcrman." published on Jii.HU' ■■iry.9. I PI!.- an ■intprvipw-M'ilh Captain jCrai?. iho .Attorncy-Gcnoml's tvzht 'band man in those days rhou ho w,ts ! not to very dseplr concerned about. J "prejudicing His Majesty's rehtions .with foreign Powers." Captain CraJc said then: . i j There is a spirit spreading abroad j which 1 can testify to from my per- ■■ sonal knowledge that GERMANY j AND THE GERMAN EMPEROR j WOULD BE PREFERRED to tho. I rulo of John Redmond, Patrick Ford, \\ and the Molly Maquires. i Perhaps some readers may remember, ! others will be interested to know, that 1 tho "Belfast Erenin" Telegraph" on ! August.'J7. 1013, announced that i • Sir Edward Carson 'had tho honor of receiving an invitation to lunch with tho Kaiser last week at Hamburg, j And wliilo ho was in Germany the present Attorney-General was in constant communication with tho Ulster Unionist Headquarters concerning 1 tin "i-ivii war" campaign. So far as wo know it has not yet i been denied that the of Mausers i ■ '

What they have Said

lor .•inniu;; i-lio Vcl'inkcr:-, was run into ULm-ct in April, lf'll, «.-atnc ijron? Germany. Tlio t."j:.-U t-ntruM.- ---; <:d to -olio .Major I , ', t'niwi'ord. and on ! July 11, liil'l, Sir i;d-.v:'rd publicly : thanL>jd ilim iii:i.j<.>r tor the |.'!irt lie had liikoii in fhis unn-ruiiiiiiij; t.'feupadu. i Alaiur I. r:i« lord yiid at IJarcgnr, on j AiJi'il .;'. I!'l "J. a<:t:'onliii3 tv a if]:ori. 'in ill., "•.Nnrih Down Herald," ! It' tln.y v, err i.o he pni. oui of Uh: ' Union l'lK \VOUI>U IMiMTKLV j I'HIiFF.I! TO CIIANCK UIS AI.-L-IiGIANCK HinilT OVKI! TO THK KMl'liROB OF (;ERAIANV or ouy uiie el.se who had .i;ot a proper and liable- (iovernmont. Tin? ppcili'ir tpinl of patriotisra \v,-.\ed holder a.- timo went, by, a.nd j'ftrr thi visit' of to-day.v A<toruey-General-Io Germany, <he,'Trish Church--man" £a.vo: prominence t<) a. letter tinner] 'fJ 0' ." in which it tva.s stated: Tf may not. I , ' , l!v known to Uie r-'inkand til" vi Unionitib that ""E lIAVIi THE OFFER. OF .AID FKO3I A rOWERFI/L COXTIXENTAL MONARCH whr>..if Home KuJo is forcod on the Protes.lanis of .lroland, is prepared to send an army sufficient to release England of any further trouble in Irel-md, by attaching it. to his dominion, believing, ho docs, that if our King breaks his (■'oroiii'tion natii by signing the • Horn? Rule r.dl. ho v ill, by *o doin-. liavn foriVitorJ his claim to rule ■'Ireland, and should our King M£i».■ •■the Home Etilo Bill, the Protestants of Ireland will welcome this continental deliverer as their forefathers, under ■similar circumst-.incos, did once before. Tho writer's of these letters'and the utterer? of these fearful threats are of the type, that now talks equally me"-" nacingly'-about tho "Huns" who are. over-running Europe, and of the arrogant militarism of Germany which must be crushed !\y the flower of British manhood. Indeed, does not their fiery loader now sit among tho mighty to a'&Mfat, as Attorney-General, in reducing tho Huns to such weakness that they could be of littlo use to Ireland ?■• He and they and the "Morning Post." must forgno us if wo find it a little difficult k> bcliovo thut thoso who looked so confidently for tho help of the German Emperor could bo guilty of snch miserable ingratitudo as to hate tho "Continental deliverer. as heartily as most patriots-are-ex-pected now to hato him. And more, the last of thoso passages wo have quoted does not exactly suggest loathing of' Gorman ■ militarism. —-'.'Labor. Leader." •