WONT BE BULLIED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11027, 16 March 1914, Page 1

WONT BE BULLIED.

CHURCHILL'S WARNING. SHOOTING 08VOTING? - WHICH DO THE TORIES PREFER? By Telegraph—Press AssocifttiorL—Copyriglik LONDON, March, 15. Mr ■Churchill in a speech at.Bradford, said thcafc agreement alone would make it. worth while-to.; recast the: Home Rule Bill. The .Unionists': duty. was clear. If they disliked^Horncßule, thov must agitate- for;a majority. If they won they could amend or repeal the -la W; :•■-'■ Bie-Liberals sought: to .allay old hatreds i n Ireland; not to create ! new ones. Ho wanted to give the.lrish j • .-•ople what they'.wished, not force upon them what .they disliked.. • Mr Asquith's offer on principle was the last offer .'the . Government could or ought to make., -If•■the Tories rejected tho offer- it would only be_ because they preferred shooting to voting. He was certain that the ■ first British soldier. or. bluejacket \ killed' by Orange-. men would raise such an explosion as the Tories little appreciated. It would shake the foundations of society... Sir Edward Carson was wrong on the merits of the question and history would prove him so. Sir Edward Carson thought of the Ulster convention, which was graciously to consider tlie matter while the Imperial Parliament stood- on tip-too outside : waiting for the verdict. Mr Churchill said that when he looked, at the situation as now unfoldedho felt that they had' had about enough of this sort of thing. Mr Churchill, concluding, said that the GovernmentWould-not allow itself to be bullied. Doubtless bloodshed would be lamentable, but cowardly abdication of the executive's responsibility would be worse'. . . Law and order must prevail. "We are not going to!have Britain sunk to Mexico's condition," he said. - "If-.-Ulster.-seeks peace she, knows where ■ to. find, it, but if every .concession is . spurned,, if Ulster becomes the tool of party calculations, if : civil and parliamentary systems are brought to a crude challenge to force,, if reckless chatter ends in. the disclosure of sinister revolution, then let us go forward and,put these grave'matters to-the,proof."-"IF THEY DARED." REPEAL OF THE BILL. I (Received March 16, 8.45 a.m.) •LONDON, March 15. Mr P. H: Ulingworth, Liberal Whip, at Bradford, said that there would be no general election until the Home R-ulev Disestablishmont and the Plural Voting Bills had been passed. Mr John Mlon, M:P., at Newcastle, said that he was convinced that compromise, was best calculated to secure victory. If" the Unionists won tho next election, they' could repeal it if they dared; or cut'out Ulster, when the- Nationalists would renew the struggle with the. Irish Parliament at their back. At the All-for-Ireland Conference at Cork. Mr O'Brien stated that the Irish Party-had accepted a modified Bill, and covered itself with infamy. " Fujl-spced-ahcad " was the order, but it had been disobeyed, and now a rotten harque was riving for its life with the Hibernian-crew waiting for an opportunity to throw their trembling captain Oi-er boardOver ten,thousand places have been opened in England for signing the Brij lish covenant.