REFORM IN IRELAND.
GOVERNMENT PLEDGES. SPEECH BY MR. REDMOND. By Telegraph.-Press Association.— Copyright. (Received September 11, 12.2 a.m.) London, September 10. Mr. John Redmond (leader of the Irish party in the House of Commons), speaking at .Waterford prior to sailing for New York, said that unless the Government fulfilled its pledges it would speedily find Ireland ungovernable. Compulsory powers,' Mr. Redmond continued, were absolutely necessary to secure a complete settlement of the land question, but unless Irishmen relinquished their personalities and concentrated all their energies in a united effort for reform, their demands would not be conceded. Scenes like that which had occurred last week at Newcastle West (County Limerick), where a United Irish League meeting was broken up and two Irish members violently assaulted, were a discredit and disgrace, and sooner than again participate in internecine strife he would quit Irish politics altogether. Mr. Redmond added that the only human agency capable of seriously delaying the realisation of the hopes of Home Rule was dissension among themselves.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13852, 11 September 1908, Page 5
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