Home Rule.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5967, 7 August 1912, Page 1

Home Rule.

OUTCOME OF OWOSITJON SPEECHES. ME BONAR LAW UNAS! IAM I'd). UNIONISTS MEAN CIVIL WAR. LONDON, Angii-i I. In tho House of Commons, duriu-. the debate on ■lrish Supply, Mr |)elvin, M.P. for West Belfast, described tho Belfast l.uv-ibreakers »s Sir I',. Carson's dupes. He also blamed Mr A. Bonar Law's Blenheim speech. Sir E. Carson replied l that h,' would never countenance acts like those a t the Belfast ship yards. The main cause of the disturbance was Home Rule, which aroused the deepest passions. •Mr A. Bonar Law declun d iliai h'w words at Blenlioim were ean-iulK-written beforehand, and he withdiv.v nothing. The situation was inure serious than at any lime since hi|-_>. Every mem'ber of the I'nionist partv endorsed every word hj,. then uttered. The men in North-east Ulster would act up to their declarations.

The Prime Minister question,.,! whether any parallel could be found in the speeches of any responsible statesman for the luniruune used at Blenheim. The leader of the Opposition now said that n minority would bo right in ri'sistinir Home Hide by fori*. What if he were returned to power, and an overwhelmiue majority of tho Irish resisted the law and pointed to Mr A. Bona: Law's language as juslilkvition for Mr Bonar Law's doctrine? It would mean the absolute end of parliamentary government. lie considered fh,. Blenheim speech as ti declaration, a nd added that he was unable i,. ~e nil Mr Law if responsibility for thedbcreditablc Jiroeeedino-s nl Belfast, lie was responsible for slat, mem- uhich were an open incitement t, violence. MR REDMOND'S I'OLK'Y. A number of worhn.rn and ehrbsin the Belfast shipyards have struck as a protest against il,. retention of a number of Catholics who have returned to worlc.