Irish Situation

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 14, 4 June 1914, Page 5

Irish Situation

A VEHEMENT IRISHMAN. THE " HORIiUSJj,., DETESTABLE', UNCLEAN " BILL. SIR EDWARD CARSON AT BELFAST. Bv Cable —Press Association—Copyright Received 3, 10.30 p.m. London, June 3. Sir Edward Carson, in an address, to the women of East Belfast, said*a "horrible, detestable, unclean Bill" had passed the House of Commons. Ulster was in great peril. There was a slight hope left in the amending Bill, but Ulster would probably find it was only a putrid solution of the rejected offers. Despite the Government's fleet, all preparations were being made. Ulster waß going to have more. Mausers, and would never give up those they had. HOME RULE BILL. THE NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS. ' SOME STRONG LANGUAGE. Times and Sydney Sun Services.Received 3, 7.5 p.m. London, Juno 3. Colonel Moore, who is organising the Nationalist volunteers, says they stand to resist the claims of the Unionists to exclude the counties where the Unionists are in a minority. Any Government attempting to jerrymander the Nationalist counties out of Ireland will have to render an account to the volunteers. Mr. Lundon, M.P., said he had beard about the Army not doing its duty. "To hell with the Army! Let it stand, and volunteers will teach the gentlemen of Ulster a lesson." > A PLEA FOR PEACE. Here is the full text of Mr. Redmond's noble plea for peace, made in the House of Commons on April 3, on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill: — "Anything which would mean burying the hatchet, anything which would mean the consent of these Ulstermen to shake hands frankly with their fellow-country-men across the hateful memories of the past, would be welcomed with universal joy in Ireland, and would be gladly purchased by very large sacrifices indeed. If the right hon. and learned gentleman (Sir E. Carson) would say to me, "We both are Irishmen; wo both love our oountry; we both hate —and I am sure this is absolutely true of both of us—all the old sectarian animosities, all the old wrongs, all the old memories which have kept Irishmen apart; let us eome together and see what we can do for the welfare of our common country, so that we can hand down to those who eome after us an Ireland more free, more peaceful, more tolerant, an Ireland less cursed by racial and religious differences." If an appeal like that were made to us, I say without the smallest hesitation that there are no lengths that Nationalist Ireland would not be willing to go to assuage the fears, allay the anxieties, and remove the prejudices of the Ulster fellow countrymen. But alas! that is not the position. Even the permanent exclusion of Ulster is not, put forward as the one and sole condition upon which they will give up their avowed intention of levying' war upon their fellow-countrymen."