ULSTER AND HOME RULE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9178, 19 April 1893, Page 3

ULSTER AND HOME RULE.

i TO THE KDITOIL Sib,—Ulster is the only province in Ireland where the masses are blessed with a nineteenth century intelligence. Ulster is the only province where religious liberty, independence, and self-reliance are universal. '. Again, Ulster is the only province where agrarian outrage, moonlighting, and other : questionable recreations are conspicuous by their absence. And, sir, Ulster is the greatest educating, law-abiding, enterprising, civilising province in Ireland, and why? Because there the thumb of the priest has no preasure, the declamations of demagogues are accepted with suspicion, and Satan there can offer no mischief, for there have been as a rule no idle hands. No, sir. Up to the time this Home Rule Bill was embodied Ulster was spreading the stream of prosperity far and near over the land. Good times were coming along hand over hand. But now the tide has turner!, thanks to the notoriety-loving ambition of Mr. Gladstone. Stocks have fallen. Bank shares have collapsed, and in Belfast there a.re thousands of workiugmen idle, and have been for mouths past; for merchants won 'i speculate, and extensive contracts are relinquished. "E.F.G.," in a letter to your paper this morning, refers to Honest John Dillon, why not Honest Parnell, Pat. Kgau, O'Douovau Rossa, and a host of other monuments of unmentionable notoriety, who have been the curse of Ireland. There is no halfway house as far as Ulster is concerned. If Home Rule is forced upon this province the issue will be civil suite and commercial ruin throughout the country. If on the other hand Ulster is left out, why there will not be standing room in a few years ; there will be such a rush from other provinces, after the novelty of the new regime has worn off, and the people lind out that some one had blundered. I enclose a cutting from St. James's Gazette, March Ist, re the fall in Irish stocks, which has a pithy ring about it. —I am, etc., DeWARDO. April IS, 1893. " One in the City " says :— If the Liberals are so convinced of this plot and believe so firmly in the rise in the value of Irish securities bv the working of Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, why do they not defeat this plot,? The remedy is so simple ; let them buy Irish securities, and by that means show their confidence in the legislative genius and good faith of Mr. Gladstone and his Irish allies."