FATE OF ULSTER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1879, 13 October 1913, Page 7

FATE OF ULSTER.

COMMENT ON MR. CHURCHILL'S

SPEECH.

EARL GREY'S VIEW,

THE .ONLY WAY OUT.

By Tcloyraph—Presg Association—OoDyrirht London. October 10. Tho newspapers aro discussing Mr. Churchill's speech at Dundee. Tho "Daily Mail" (Unionist) Bays that tho spirit of tho speeoh has been misunderstood. Tho words of wisdom and appeasement spokeai moan that Cabinet is prepared to accept separate treatment for North-East Ulster, recognising that Ulster cannot bo dragooned. Tho "Daily News and Leader" (Libera!) denies that tho Government is willing to compromise on tho basis of tho exclusion of a- portion of Ulster from tho operation of Homo Rule. Any attompt to dismember Ireland on religious lines must) says tho paper, bo dismissed'.

Tho "Daily Chronicle" (Liberal) says tliat Irish Unionists aro proclaiming Mr. Churchill's Dundeo references' as a victory for Sir Edward Carson., and it is now evidently impossible for tho Government to urate further approaches towards Ulster.

Nationalist and Unionist newspapers in Ireland are awaiting declarations by tho leaders.

"UNWORKABLE AND GROTESQUE."-

London, October 10. Mr. John Dillon, Nationalist M.P., in an interview, said that the proposal to exclude a part of Ulster had l been suggested solely as a means of wrecking tho Homo Rulo Bill. Tho idea of lopping off a part was unworkable and grotesque, ana would bo regarded _as indicating Cabinet's fears. Hesitation would only inflame Ulster afresh. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Spccial Cables.

London. October 10. "The Times," in a leading artiole, says that Ulster "might bo excluded entirely from the Home Rulo Bill, but to mako any settlement _ possible all agreeniont must tako a widorrauge. 'An essential point for Unionists is that tho Imperial Parliament should 1 giyo away no power which it does not precisely define and court of its own initiative, without appeal to a court to modify, expand, or recall. On theso terms Unionists might agree to tho concession even of greater powers than tho present Bill, concedes.'■ EARL CREY'S ADVICE. SUGGESTS TRIAL OF FEDERALISM. London, October 11. Earl Grey, formerly Governor-Gen-eral of Canada, in a statement explaining his opposition to tho Home Rule Bill, said that the present schemo differed widely from Canada's, because it was based on tho assumption that Ireland was a soparato nationality. If the people of Ireland were right in refusing to be governed from London, then tho people of Ulster were entitled to refuse to be governed from Dublin. "The population of tho north-east cornor of Ulster, said Earl Grey, exceeds seven out of nine Canadian provinces, tho wholo of Now Zealand, or twenty-one out of forty-nino States of America. It would bo a orimo to compel Ulster to accept Dublin rule. Lord Beaconsfiold and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain had both favoured applying tho Federal principal to Ireland. The Unionists should accept Mr. Churchill's invitation, and seriously consider the "Federal" solution, which was within the fiold of practical politics.