HOME RULE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15393, 9 July 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

LECTURE AT TEMI'KA. ill- Patersou ' delivered an address afc the ; Temuka Mechanics' Institute.oll Tuesday evening on "Home R,ule. : ' Dr Rugg presided and thero was a fair at- • tendance. Mr Paterson stated tlref rase in fa-, voi:r of Home .Rule man able, an convincing manner, and no important aspects of t/he subject wero overlooked. He .was particularly interesting when dealing with the position, in Ulster, and in ln's interpretat : on of tho attitude taken up by Sir Edward Carson and other Conservatives. ThW former, lie claimed, was a. Homo Ruler by cci.viction, and his rea.l aim was not the retention of tht< present form of Govern, meut for Ireland. hut the defeat of the Libers I Party. The suffragetta ntcvcment came in far some attention/and ho described the attempts to embarrass tlio Government • with :mi insistent demand for votes. for women. with all its attendant outrages, to the opponents of the Asquith Government, who were actually paying weak-minded women from £1 to 30s a week to encourage the movement. The fact that outrages had ceased since it became known that those who contributed to the funds, of suffragettes were to lie mode liable for any damage done confirmed this view. At the conehis'on Mr Paterson answered n number of questions and was accorded a very hearty vote of thinks.