"Won't Be Bullied."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 72, 16 March 1914, Page 5

"Won't Be Bullied."

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

<B> MR CHURCHILL SPEAKS OUT.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright j [United Press Association.]

London, March .15

Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at Bradford, said that an agreement alone would make it worth while to re-cast the Home Rule Bill. The Unionists' duty was clear. If they disliked the Act they must agitate for a majority. If they won they could amend or repeal the law. The Liberals sought to allay the old hatreds in Ireland, not to create new ones. He wanted to give them what they wished, and not to force upon them what they disliked. Mr Asquith's offer, on principle, was the last Government could or ought to make. If the Tories rejected this, it would only he because they preferred shooting to voting. He was certain that the first British soldier or bluejacket killed by the Orangemen would raise such an explosion as the Tories little appreciated, and which would shake the foundations of society. Sir Edward Carson was wrong on the merits of the question, and history would prove him so. Sir Edward Carson talked of the Ulster convention which was to graciously consider the matter, while the 'lmperial Parliament stood on tip-toe outside awaiting the verdict. When he (Mr Churchill) looked at the situation as now unfolded, he felt they had had about enough of this sort of thing. , Mr Churchill, in conclusion, said:— 'The Government will not allow themelves to be bullied. Doubtless bloodiied is lamentable, but the cowardly abdication of the executive's responsibility would be worse. Law and order must prevail. We are not going to have Great Britain sunk to Mexico's condition. If Ulster seeks peace, she knows where to find it. But if every concession is spurned, if Ulster becomes the tool of party calculations, ■if civil and Parliamentary systems are brought to the crude challenge of force, if reckless chatter ends in the disclosure of sinister revolution, then let us go forward and put these grave Blatters to the proof.'*' MR REDMOND'S TRIAL. THE OPPOSITION LEADER. London, March 14. . Nineteen Nationalists were absent during Thursday's critical division. Several went to Ireland without leave, and Mr Redmond has severely rebuked them.

Mr Acland, at Acton, commenting on the recent debates, says he has'never aeard speeches more lacking in statesmanship, a sense of responsibility, or a feeling of human decency than Mr :V. Bonar Law's. He addtxl that the Government did not intend to make any further modification of Home Rule, which would only lead to further ileniands.

REBELLIOUS S!R EDWARD.

London, March lo

Sir Edward Carson, in a letter, says . "We are going to make good in action all we have been saying. We have been preparing for two years for a struggle so grave as to be almost unprecedented in recent history." iir Devlin, in an article in Reynolds' Magazine, argues that the Carsonites are' irreconcilable, and that the Bill should be passed as it stands, and the Government enforce the law against the aristocrats who are plotting for rebellion. A hundred personal friends, dining at the Ritz Hotel, presented Sir Edward Carson with a sword and a book of signatures attached to a copy of the covenant. "NO GENERAL ELECTION UNTIL BILL PASSES." DILLON OUT FOR COMPROMISE, "THE NOW-ROTTEN BARQUE." (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, March 15. Mr Illingworth (Liberal M.P. for York), speaking at Bradford, said tbere would be no general election until Homo Rule, the Disestablishment 'Bill, and Plural Voting had passed. Mr Dillon (Nationalist M.P. foi Mayo), speaking at Newcastle, said he was convinced a compromise was best calculated to secure victory. U the Unionists won the next election, they could repeal it if tliey dared, or cut out Ulster, when the Nationalists would renew the struggle with the Irish Parliament at their back. At the All-for-Ireland Conference at Cork, Mr O'Brien stated that the Irish Party had accepted a modified Bill and covered itself with infamy, "Full speed ahead" was the order, but it had swallowed full speed astern. "The now-rotten barque," he said, "was flying for its life, and the Hibernian crew was waiting for the opportunity to throw the trembling captain overboard!" Over ten thousand places have been opened in England for signing the British Covenant.