HOME RULE CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1895, 1 November 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE CRISIS.

GOVERNMENT CENSURED, Bj T«]<!Era,j)h'-Pr<aß Airaoolaflori-OapyrisM "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Hco. October SO, 7.30 p.m.) London, October 81. The "Times," commenting on Mr. Bonar Law's speech on the Homo Rule question, remarks that the Government, having brought the United Kingdom to the verge of internal conflict, is bound to say how it proposes to deal with the situation—a situation unparalleled, and fraught with disaster. "Whilst admitting, acknowledging, and temporising," says the paper, "it makes no definite sign, and meanwhile the sands aro running out of the hourglass of destiny." ULSTER'S RIGHTS. (Ree. October 81, 10.80 p.m.) .. A London, October 81. «. tt ■ Usten Chamberlain, speakinij at the United Empire Club, declared that they could not refuse Ulster tiro same right bb the self-governing Dominions claimed, to rule their own fate. What right, ho asked, have wo to cast Ulster out of the Union, and subject the Watermen to an authority abhorrent to them.

In his reply to Lord Lcreburn's letter advocating a conference of all parties on the Homo Kulo question, Sir Edward "i?"'4 PUt9 tlie P° siti oa of Ulster thus; u, i il veTe a 9««stioii of considering the bettor .government of Ireland, or removing grievances, of doing something ZiV l '•tH ccoaomiß Progress of the country; if u were.-a question for the expansion of local government or doing something which might unite the people W one common cause for the progress ot Ireland I would be the first to say i Above all things let us have a oonfcrfh£%nif B « w. d does not.see tho gulf- that there is between-sliall I say tor shortness ?-Mr. John Redmond and myself upon this question. We shall never glV e up the principle for which we hayo fought of bring governed by an Imperial Parliament with an Executive responsible -to it, because it is they who will have charge of our liberties, and wo are not prepared to hand these' liberties n v *M- to a n Executive, responsible to a Dublin Parliament. Wo have inherited freedom and liberty, and we Bay that no man and no body of men has a right to uleli away from us any shred of that which we have inherited. On the other hand, Sir Redmond would say-I have no doubt he would, because I <un sure ho would say. it with perfect honesty—"Tho question to me is not tho good "govern, melit of Ireland; I would rather (as I heard him say in the Heuso of Commons) have Ireland free and governed badly by ourselves than well governed by an' Imperial Parliament." Therefore jt is not wA'} es ,*l on .? f .eOoil government with him. With him it is a question of separate nationality, and you cannot reconcile these two different views of what is best for the preservation of our freedon* Until you can reconcile them there is Hot the slightest Use of our pretending to meet in a conference which must prove abor-