HOME RULE.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 18, 16 June 1911, Page 2

HOME RULE.

THE meeting in favour of the above movement was a great success from every point of view. We listened with interest to the speech of Mr Hazelton, M.P., a well-reasoned logical statement, delivered in good style and most convincing to every .fair-minded listener. All that is asked for according to the Envoy's statement is, that the Irish people should have the right to manage their purely domestic affairs. A Parliament to control their railwavs, roads, bridges, telegraphs, etc., provide for education and the encouragement of arts and industries, and all other branches which come under the heading of domestic legislation, is what the Irish people are asking for, and the right to it appears to every true democrat undeniable. The Rev. F. W. Clarke was right in bringing forward the question of Ireland wanting to carve out her own future. It gave Mr Hazelton a second opportunity of asserting the fact that the whole Irish party were averse to the dismemberment of the Empire, and while they could not be answerable for newspaper reports, he had no hesitation in saying that dismemberment was the last thing his party desired. Given suitable safeguards to protect the minority in Ulster, and having this assurance of loyalty to the Empire, we can see no legitimate reason why the Irish people should not have the right to manage their own affairs.