The Thames Star THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1913. EDITORIAL. HOME ROLE QUESTION.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14616, 4 September 1913, Page 4

The Thames Star

THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1913. EDITORIAL. HOME ROLE QUESTION.

Our Mottc: Fear of None; Favour to None ; ' t . Justice to All.

WILL UILSTEII FIGHT? ; Some -.vc-ry interesfting correspond'.ence is taking! place and general com m©nts' are beiug made on. wliait will follow the passingl of tlhe Home Rule Blill. It is hardly comcedvlaibfe thai tihere will be armed opposition which is practically a dec-iaration of civil war, and yet tihere are many who, 'knowingl TJl^tiea*. Ulster men and Ulster Unionism, believe tih'at blood w'll be shed before the recalciitranitis .\xe> subdued:—if they are subdued. Whan such promonenlfc men as Sir Edward Carson and Mr F. E. Smitih openly preach amned resdistiance and revolt it< is time tibat tha I'aw was vinda'cated. for if erer tlwo men hiave preached opc.n sedition the pair we name have In a recent letter tk> tlie 'Lon4on Times'. Sir 6. Barker, who has devoted considerable time to the study of tnig all important subject, }c-Hk-ves that Ulsiter will fight to resist ; Home Rule, though'- one need b» no' seer to anticipate what the result ci f such a lamentlaiblci tfccuiTence would j h?,. Let us quote Sir Gilbert. KarkI qv'h own wordis.:^— lI have, seen it ; written and heard it»»aad' again and ; n.tr.-iin, that the Ulster leaders incite • tlh-e 'pA'^ple in an artificial oxcitcfln ml ; i.v.d to fictitious ,sfete of rdtoilion: ; ftTid that if the people'at lanpre were ! left alone thore would bo no fear of | any desperate doings in the north of I Imfond. From, wfoalti I heard mid \ nn\v through num-barless are<nuc« ct j mnvormtt'Uin arid incident am certain ; till at it fa wily demotion to their loadcva and foi#i in thorn 'wlhich hm prdvjitled the people of Ul»ter frwM ioc* : \w* the ftitiwitaon before now. It ;» '» mere madncm to thhik that jv&uug will happen jf this Home IMe JFI receive* tihe m^mturo of the Kinfg. 'I'li'.tv h a dynamic force in Ulster UTiionism which may yot restore real ity, tnvth, and fidelity to. policed life wifJiin tihits Eim-pke. My ovrn ki lief h that history will find in the nmih-otwt of Ulster a power whicii wvA ha,ve revifcali'sed the national 'ifo of l-hr? United Kingdom. I my witn ; <!'»v. fknrjwt ))v\\d and as tht> msulti of convoirflfttions with very nriuy n'jnoflfi'ciial NbtiimiaTi«tis in Treland, woitbh and west, that the Niut'ionafot* n!';i.'.m-:t/Ivitn beiliVve Ulster will i'ijr'n'., T.hoy lcivow fcliotr Ulster oountirymoii thw know tihafc the real trouWe will bt'w.iu on the day that tilie R»y.al'Lt■;v;.i!it is <jjive.ii to the rfodim liule 13'il' ; ijind many of them are aghast ai the thought of it.