Irish Home Rule

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5970, 17 August 1912, Page 1

Irish Home Rule

.Alii CIII'HCIIIL.L ANSWIORS MR BONAII LAW. SCATHING LNDJCTMKiNT OF Tllfi VIOLENCE THlffiAT. LONDON, August I'2. In a letter to the chairman of the Liberal organisation at Dundee, Mr Churchill, who is the senior member [or that constituency, referring to Homo Rule, deals at some length with j\lr Bonar Law's recent threats, " not because Mr Law is likely to carry them out or because there will be no remedy if lie did." Mr Churchill adds: " Mr Law declares that there is no length to which Orangemen- might not go in resisting, not tyranny or illusage, mark you, but Home Utile, which ho does not support, arguing that it Mas not an issue at the last election. This is untrue. Mr Law's doctrines are fatal to the evolution that lias been proceeding ior the la-t two generations towaids consolidation and reconciliation, tunding to make Homo Rule possible within the Empire, n nd enabling U U its people to establish their rights and respect their ereeds, their honour, and their traditions, a nd also enabling all to stand together with their high comradeship and freedom unbroken in the hour (l f trial. Mr Law's doctrines are not only pernicious in regard to external ull'airs, but, he counsels violence. Mutiny may r.ot be unattractive to many millions of the ve'-y poor snll'ering in the toilers' (liuns at Home, who, hearkening thereto, may be lured to their own ami public disaster. Mr Law's doctrines. ,-,s embodied in his Blenheim speech,, -pv the .-mho a.- those of Mr Tillett „i Tower 11-ill ; but Mr Tillett's men were, starving. The talk of civil war er.manates from one side alone. But were illonin Rule frustrated, Mr Law within 12 months would possibly be searing the Nationalists to servitude 01 the gallows, and be holding the provinces in the grip of a Coercion Vet in tlv name of tie- s:une law and oiiLi which he now recklessly tramples. Tiedisqualifying hi part of the en and where even brickbat and eve luliivjT with a P ; i'-'t ipire can tie in street Imllv Mil BONAiTiiI.AW'S ANKWHL LONDON', August l:i. In the course of a letter in reply to what he describes as Mr Churchill's rhetorical contribution, Mr Bonar Law says : " The Government won an election (December 19101 by parading the preamble of the parliament Bill ph'd';ing tho reform of the Second Chamber. That the Premier declared, was a 'dqWt of honour. They repudiated it. Why ? Because no Sr'r ,nd Chamber, however constituted, w ,',ild permit a great change like Lome little unless it was first submilleJ to the electors, a nd because they knowthat it it were submitted it would •!>• emphatically and finally condemned. All the leading members of the Government, include Mr Bir.rell (Chief secretary for Ireland), omitted any reference thereto in their election tides. Can unyoue doubt that the - sion was deliberate ? The Government thus established a dictatorship, but only a paper dictatorship, which will fall to pieces when it is resisted. Mr Churchill is <piite right in thirling that the -Cnionists anticipate a civil war. There would have been a real danger of- civil war if the Government had been allowed to movo blindly over tho .precipice without clear warning of the dangers confronting them. They know now that if they attempt \lo impose Homo Rule, on Ulster without obtaining; the sanction of the electors they will drive Ulster out of the Union. The atUmtpl will lie resisted, v°t only bv the loyalists m Ireland, but. ' by w) overwhelming majoritv of the people of Great Britain, and the attempt will not be made. ; THE ULSTER MENACE. LONDON, August 14. Lists of tho members of projected miniature rifle clubs in Ulster must b submitted to th© authorities, who will decide whether the clubs shall be permitted to.eome kito existence, For children'! hacking cough at nigttt Woods! Great' Peppermint Core ls6d 2i ed,