MR. REDMOND'S FIAT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1979, 9 February 1914, Page 7

MR. REDMOND'S FIAT.

HOME RULE MUST BE SETTLED, "HERE AND ( ;! SPEECH AT NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, , By TeJezrapti-Procß | v CRec. February 8, 3,5 pun.) London, February 7. For tlie first timo tiro National Liberal Chib has entertained Mr. .lolm i Redmond, the I risk Nationalist leader, at dinner. It was .tlio largest .dinner | party the elub has known. Whon tho 5 late Mr. Charles Stuart Panic,U dined, at tho club after the defoat of the. first ' Home .liulo Bill, 'ho was tho guest of (July a section of the elub, thoiigh that '■ visit was a noteworthy event, i'arneU shaking hands with Earl Spencer, who! had been Viceroy of Ireland during the Latid League's fierce campaign. XI r. Redmond reeehvjd a stirring oviitioK. In his speech, ho tied ami that tho Tory party Wa-s without ft progmnimo or a. policy, juid. was now falling j back oil poor oil Ireland for its party 1 ! cry. Irishmen would no longer submit \ to be made the pawns and pln.ytliiii.gß of British parties. Ireland would never t submit to he governed by tli® old rot-' - ten system -of superiority and astendi aiiey. _ J If their opponents succeeded add kill- . Ed tho' Bill, Maud would ho absolutely . ungovernable undorthe old regime. Any.' [ Nationalist concession which might be j f m#de to meet tho fears of any 'section ■, must be tho price paid far. conciliation, j assent, add agreement to tho Bill. Con- i , concessions oil any other basis would be mischievous and futile. "The question must be settled here j and How," said Mr. Redmond., who co.n----t eluded; "The Nationalists 'would bo . fools, cowards, aiul traitors'to tho high- ; est interests of order, liberty, arid do-. 5 mocraey, as well as to Ireland, if they i. allowed auy throait of violence to turn ' .them Olio hair's-hreadth from the path they believe and know will lead to a 1 contented Ireland, and a united Em--1 pire." ' MOVE BY THE UNIONIST PEERS- i b (Rcc. February 8, 5.5 p.m.) ! I 5 London, February 7. 1 It is expected that tho Unionists in tho House of Lords will move an amend-. nient to tlio Addrcss-m-Reply, asking; his Majesty tlio King to grant a general election. j