IRISH HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10, 9 May 1912, Page 5

IRISH HOME RULE.

AUSTEX CHAMBERLAIX GIVES HIS OPINIONS. IF ULSTER RESISTS ? (By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, May 8. The Non-conformists Liberal Commoners have approved of the religions safeguards in the Home Rule Bill, and thanked the Government for the d’sendowment of Wales. The Times states that at least a dozen Labour Commoners acquiesce in the disestablishment, but arc antagonistic to discndowinent, which they consider is aimed against the elementary principles of justice and policy. Mr Austen Chamberlain denied that the Home Rule Bill would remedy congestion. The Commons would have to continually thresh out questions .settled in Dublin, with added complications.q This action would mean the reversal of the decisions of a semi-independent Parliament. The military danger was profound, and the financial danger great. Replying to Sir Rufus Isaacs, he said that he was not prepared to advise others to run into danger that ho in England would not .'share, but .if Ulster resisted English opinion would not allow Ulster to be dragooned. “You and your Bill,” he added, “would then be wrecked in the storm you have caused.”

Mr Samuel declared that he was glad that Mr Austen Chamberlain repudiated the frenzied appeals to resort to violence.