HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 4 November 1911, Page 6

HOME RULE.

(Received 4, 8.5 a.m.) London, November 3

Mr Redmond addressed a crowded meeting at the City Liberal Club on the economic and financial aspects of Home Rule. Ho declared that it had boon England’s deliberate policy for two centuries to destroy Irish industries. Hence her commercial and industrial history was one of continu-

al stagnation. It was hopeless to expect Ireland to rouse herself until she obtained a native Government, During the greater part of a century she had boon paying two and a quarter millions above a fair proportion. During the century she contributed 429 millions for the navy and for the general purposes of the Empire. The Irish Government was the most costly in the world because it was not a willing partnership with one of the richest countries. Every luxury given to England was extended to Ireland and charged to Irish revenue. There was no incentive to economy. Let Britain make a liargain with Ireland in generous final sotclement. Parliamentary business was so congested that Eiomo Rule was equally required in England, Scotland, and Wales. A remarkable feature of the meeting was that Lord Beauchamp presided, and the Master of Elibank moved a vote of.thanks to Mr Redmond.