HOME RULE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144150, 21 July 1913, Page 3

HOME RULE.

THE-TWO-Vl EWS* A ' ' tv BRITISH',PEER AND IRISH MEMBER, 1 ’ JJYy ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. (Received July 21, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. Lord. Curzon, when speaking nt i ifalymnnn. was asked whether in the ■ eYonfi of-a general election favouring I Homo ‘Ride, Ulster would accept it. In ■ fiis- reply, he said he would enter into ! no-'bargain, but ..denied the right of ! ais; Parliament, before, or after twenty ' elections, to deprive Ulstermen of tho ‘ position they had inherited. Ml. Dillon, . speaking at Birkenhead, ' 6did 'the majority in Ireland would not 1 submit,to tho insult,and tyranny of a i fraction.'of tho Ulster people. They had "Won by constitutional means, and did, not import arms, abuse the King, ; or.rthreaton to shoot tho soldiers. • [The Unionists suggest a procedure familiarly described as ‘'heads I win, ’ tdils you lose.” They urge that tho Home Rule Bill should be referred to tlio country before it becomes law, in the hope that the country will reject it and put the Unionists in office. If, however,. the voters approve of the , Home Rule Bill, tho opposition to Homo Rule will, on Lord Curzon’s admission, uot be abated one jot. It is • hardly likely the Liberal Ministry, Who,, whatever their faults, are not de- : void of intelligence, will walk into a trap iu which the bait is so obtrusively displayed.]