HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 7 January 1911, Page 5

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

. *• . ■. NATIONALIST. MANIFESTO, MR. REDMOND SAYS MOVEMENT IS NOT SECTARIAN. ' * - NO ULSTER QUESTION. . By Telesraph—Press Associatdon-Copyris'nt .(Bee. January 6, 10.35 p.m.) London, January o. Mr. John Redmond, Leader of thi Irish Nationalist party, is issuing a, manifesto in the form of an article ill to-morrow's issue of "Reynolds' • Newspaper." Ho declares that the election has given Mr. Asquith a clear and unequivocal mandate on the lines of hia Albert Hall speech, and rejoices that the democracies of Ireland and Britain have understood each other, and ara now united.

Mr. Redmond affirms that there is no Ulster question. So far from Ulster being Protestant, 44 per centum of its population aro Roman Catholics and Homo Rulers, holding 16 out' of 33 seats. ■

Tho article emphasises that the. Homo Rule movement is national, anti not sectarian, and adds that under Homo Rule tho Protestant minority would havq equal rights and liberties with Roman Catholics, who entertain feelings of deep respect and affection foi tliem.

In his Albert Hall speech on. December 10, 1909, Mr. Asquith said:—"As to the Irieh question, it still'" re-' maincd tho one great failure of Brtiish statesmanship, and, speaking on behalf of his colleagues and of the Liberal part}",, hs held that the solution of the prol> lem could only be found in one way—by a policy which, while explicitly safer guarding the 'supreme ana undeniable authority of the Imperial Parliament,', would set up in Ireland-a system of self-, government in regard to purely Irish affairs. Por such a policy , the hands of. tho_ Liberal Government and tho Liberall majority would, in the new Parliament, be perfectly free."