SPEECH BY MR. BONAR LAW.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13846, 31 October 1913, Page 5

SPEECH BY MR. BONAR LAW.

AN APPEAL FOR ULSTER.

SIR EDWARD CARSON'S

INFLUENCE

London, Oct. 29

Mr. Bonar Law, addressing a meeting attended by 15,000 people at Wallsend* said that the pledge he had given at Blenheim on behalf of the Unionist Party still hold good. He had followed Sir Edward Carson's proceedings with the deepest sympathy, and he 'believed the people of Ulster had shown throughout impressive qualities of determination and restraint. No bitter hostility had been manifested towards. Nationalists. In all Sir Edward Carson's speeches his opponents could find no words of religious bigotry or attack on the feelings of any Catholic.

Mr. Boiiar Lav.- continued: We stand together, and, if necessary, fall '* together. ' (Cheers.) It was due to Sir Edward Carson alono that Ulster's passions had been restrained. Britain had never stood in graver peril. The position was comparable to that in America before the civil war,.. While the chief responsibility rested with the Government the Unionists had some, but in such a crisis any question of party advantage would not weigh with them any more than dust in the balance. * The Government would be committing a crime if it pressed forward to extremes without consulting the electorate. The Premier claimed that the people were behind him. Why not test it ? Either he feared the result or a bargain with the Nationalists prerented his doing his duty to the

country,