HOME RULE QUESTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13856, 20 March 1907, Page 5

HOME RULE QUESTION.

SPEECH BY MR. J. REDMOND. Press Assecialion-By Tolejraph-Copyrijht. LONDON, March 18. Mr John V.. Redmond, speaking at Liverpool, said that unless tho Government was guilty of treachery as great as I the violation of the Treaty' of Limerick, they were on the eve of a great and genuine attempt to give Irishmen control ot Irish affairs. LONDON, March 19. ' (Received March 20, at 0.13 a.m.) }lr John Redmond, speaking at. tho Irisli National banquet at tho Hotel Cecil, declared, that nothing would settle the Homo Rule question but a free Constitution for Ireland such as was granted to tho Transvaal, Referring to the Irish question, the Spectator of January 19 says:-"To sum up, a-s convinced Unionists we are le.ss than ever disposed to !» seared by the Devoluturn bogey. We refuse to believe that the present Government has i lie power, oven if it had tho will, to carry a bill imperilling the Union Am], strange as it may sound to some Unionist, cars, wo hold thai, die retention of Sir Anthony MacDonnell in ollieo is not the least elective guarantee IhaUho anti-Homo Ruin pledges given by leading Liberals <it the general "election will be respected."