HOME RULE BILL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 10 December 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE BILL.

SPEAKERS HOWLED DOWN. LIVELY iDEMONSTRATIONS. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyricht London, December 8. A large meeting of Irish LiberalNonconforinists has been held in tho Albert Memorial Hall in favour of Home Rule. Canon Lilley, Sir A. Conan Doylo, and Mr. Bernard Shaw were among the speakers. A crowd of Liberals, attired in helpicts and carrying dummy rifles, howled down Sir Edward Carson, who was speaking from a baloony of the Conservative Club at Torquay. A.t a Homo Rule demonstration at the Dalston Theatre, Mr. John Redmond was constantly interrupted by tho suffragettes' male sympathisers. He did not complete twenty 6entenoes in three-quarters' of an hour. Women were ejected every minute, and free fights were constant. A clergy- ■ man was thrown ooit for protesting against the manner in which the stewards treated the women. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE SCOUTED. "An opoch in the Irish controversy was marked by Tuesday's discussion of the Home Rulo Bill, says the London "Daily Chronicle" at the end of October. "In the course of it, Sir Edward Carson made an admission wjiich is bound to have a far-reaching effect on public opinion. He repudiated with all the scorn of his honest nature tho notion that he had over held the belief that an Irish Parliament would pass legislation marked by the spirit of religious intolerance. ■ "Tho;admission was made the most of by tho Attorney-General, amid the ringing cheers of the Government's supporters. Sir Rufus Isaacs justly observed that neither Mr. Walter Long nor Sir Edward Carson had given any countenance to the idea that Irish Catholios are animated by the spirit of religious intolerance, but he welcomed the specific statement made to-day in , Parliament by the leader of Irish Unionism. Mr. Ronald. M'Neill, an Ulstor member, Tose during the Attorney's spcech, and associated himself whole-hcaTtodly with Sir E. Carson's statement, and expressed surprise that it f should be treated as something new: but, < as Sir Rufus Isaacs pointed out, tho al- , leged fear that Protestants would be oppressed under aji Irish Parliament has . played a very large part in the agitation 1 against Home Rule. 'We may now,' he ] said, 'say to tho country, as assented to ; by the Irish Unionists, that there is no j reason whatever to fear any legislation in an Irish Parliament directed to the ; oppression of Protestants.' Not a word of remonstration or protest came from the < Opposition." ( ' i