EAST FIFE AND ULSTER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2117, 7 April 1914, Page 5

EAST FIFE AND ULSTER.

MR. ASQUITH AT UMUMI

PEACEFUL TONE.

NO OPPOSITION BY UNIONISTS,

AMENDMENTS TO HOME RULE BILL,

By T,elcsrdpli—Press AeeocleUop^Cepyriglit Loniion, April- 5. Iu tho cours-j of his speech at Larljbank, Mr. Asquitli said that if tho Government wero to recognise- tiro oxistenco of a dispensing awd discriminating power on tho part pi oflieers., they must recognise it in the men, and also iii tho Judges, the Magistrates, and tho Civil Servants. Noiv dogmas .would ho invoked whenever tho spirit of lawlessness claimed thp right to step tlio machinery of socipty. ■ Ho quoted his speech at St. Andrew's on December 7, 1910, dealing -with Homo Rule, as justification for 'dealing with tho Bill under the JPariinniont Act, Ho added: "Settlement by consent is desirable in/ tho interests of the try, but wo must have peace with honour." Mr. Asqtiith concluded his apeeeJi by advocating that devolution be ftppliod to other parts of the United Kingdom. Ho regretted that tho spirit of a democratic Army had been jbsfc. There wero several by-olcctions with great issues ahead, and it was time to put aside comparatively trivial difForoiietjs. United, the- Democrats would bo irresistible. In fcho speech referred to! above, the Prime Minister (Mr. Asijuith) suia tliat thoy were told that it was realty Mr. John Redmond who bad (lictatatthe dissolution, and that he (Mr. Asquith) ami 'his colleagues were were- puttpefs ami inario?!ettta, whoso movements weto ixjip* trolled by Mr. Redmond's onii'frttent power. Mr. Redmond had no.uioj'svo ho with the dissolution tlsan the man in Hie moon. Ho had not sai.il nmdi Jibout Home Rule because hg had bswn tailciiig about a matter which came befoia > nny great progressive legisiati<3n of any. Icind— namely, the emancipatiiMj of the HoMq of Commons from the thtaMora unikic which it at present lay, (Cheers.) H« had nover given any unoertaiß eoinid upon Romo llule. A yew ago he Said down in the Albert Hull a programme which was universally accepted by lite eoJleaßUes —a policy of Homo Eirie wjiioh was , free from ambiguity, a policy 'wbtch comreoiHtcd tho whole-hearted Support of Liberalism throughout the length, anil, breadth of the land. The supremacy of the Imneria! Parliament must bo associated with it, must be vindicatetl, and, it" aeed be, mast be carried into effect

NO OPPOSITION tO Jffi. ASQUITH. (Itcc. April 6, 10.30 p.m.) London, April 4 It is understood that tiie Unionists in East Fifo regard Mr. Asqjtith's speech at Ladybank as a peaceful bjw, and will not oppose Ms electioa, SHEAF OF AMENOMeNTS. to home mm bill. ■ . (Reo. April 6J 10.35 p.m.) fcOMton, April 6, Liberal members of the Jloiiss of Commons will taWo eight, federal amendments to tlio Borne Itulo Bill> a-ud tho Unionists four, inriailtni; tho Lyttoltori amendment, whieh favours thn' "exclusion of Ulster and tho establishment of a Liberal commission, The indications are that before tiro third' reading stage of the Bill is readied, the Government wifl provide, si siig> gestion stago for the- fortouktioft of plans for a settlement. Lord Dunravcn, in a ■ letter to tiro nowspapors, suggests that the preseftt Bill should be passed, bwt that the operative clause should be altered to enable.''its susponsioß pending the introduction of a Federal Bill, which will preserve Ireland's integrity. Mr. D. V. Pirie (Liberal 51.P.) proposes that a Statutory Comrais3icin should draw up » Federal Cofls'tititticn, which could certainly be enacted bpforo two years. HYDE PARK SPEEPHES. "THIS LILLIPUT NAPOLEON." tqndon, April 5. At tho Hydo Paris deinpustratioii. Sir Edward Carson denied that tho Army belonged to tho Radicals. Th<» Government had no right to use tho 1 forces of tho Crown when tlmy refused to tol® tho pcoplo's vote on iha question. , [ Lord Borcsford said that if thft Arfi>y were used agaiiils't tester, it irouM j break the Navy as srell as the Anny, Mr. Churchill had organised a plot against Ulstor. ■ This lilliput NspofeiW was a man of unbalanced sW, absorbed by a frenzy of vindjetiveness against Ulster because Belfast refused to receivo him. Lord Miluor said that in earlier eivil wars tho combntants had beliefs and conviction, but if thoro was fighting in Ulstor the contending parties would bo fundamentally agrcaa in attachment to Dio flag, throne,' aild Enipiro. • They were being hurled against eadi ether in a fratricidal conflict, owing to thesinister prossuio of a OoPWithHMst wlii-ch hated Ulstermew and tho Arniy. Members of tho Stock .Eselmttgo and tho Baltic Rooms had organised processions at the Hyde Paris demonstration. .Tho leading Conservative clubs, including tho 'Oariton, also smit largo contingents of incmbetsß, who commingled with great parties of East End workmen.

LIBERALISM AND LABOUR. THREE-CORNERED ELECTIONS. (Roc. April 6, 10.25 p.m.) London, April 6. Mr. G. N. Barftes (Labour member for the Blackfrinrs division of Glasgow), speaking at Wolveriiampton, said that the objects of Liberalism and Labour woro 1 distinct. Although at present they must act in common,_ yet, while Liberalism was concerned with political reform, tho extension of the franchise, and religious froedoni, Labour sought a fundamental nltwation of the cecmofflic structure of societyHo added that it was al)s«rd to think tbat tho Liberals conkl do the work of Labour, controlled, 'bossed, and finnnerf as they were by the wealthy. If Mr. Asquitii wished to avoid thwo-oornered election contests, the r*m«d.v was in his own hands, by moans af the Second Ballot or an ntternntivp vote, otherwise tliero would 'io >ri«re tliron-cornerw3 contests in tl * ftitaro than there had been in the past. . ' , Alludinu tn the Army, h& copcl'uled : Tho Army has emerged from tlw lirfit rr-iind of'tho battle second best. Tfee Army and Nα/y nrnst bo ilemeoratised. -