A USEFUL CARD.
LONDON, Sunday. The Postmaster-General, Mr Herbert Samuel, speaking at Eston, said that the Nationalists sincerely wished for '-ah amicable settlement of the Homo Rule question. Ho said it was the last desire of Ireland that her new history should be marred. by a domestic conflict. Some of tho Unionists in Britain regarded Ulster as the most uselul card in the political pack. Ho said he did not believe that the responsible leaders were animated by those cynical sentiments, but the Ulster Unionists would agree to a settlement only on impossible terms. Thoro had never been any agreement over, great controversies where either party got wholly its own way. The Right Hon. James Campbell, Unionist M.P., speaking at York, said that their opponents stated that they ought not to introduce the King's name into the controversy. This came late from those who, in the case of the Parliamentary Bill, grossly deceived King Edward by dragging his name into that controversy. Would the King exceed his constitutional rights" if- Ministers, When asking for the Royal assent to the measure, told him that they, were threatening the horrors of: civil war, and that the honourable course was an appeal to the people 9
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11882, 19 January 1914, Page 5
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203A USEFUL CARD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11882, 19 January 1914, Page 5
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