THE WOMEN'S COVENANT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2150, 16 May 1914, Page 11

THE WOMEN'S COVENANT

'AND THE HOME RULE FIGHT. [Br Imogen.] An indication of tho intense feeling *nicn has.been aroused among the women alono-m England (leaving Ireland itself quito out of tho question) oyor tho question of Home Rule is evidenced by the vast number of societies covenants, and bonds into which they Havo entered, and tho quantities of literature in the way of pamphlets, leaflets, and circulars which have been published in which they urgo all women to protest against its enactment without direct reference to the electors. One of these lea/lets was enclosed in a recent Jinghsh letter, and was issued by tho Women s Covenant as a protest against itomo Rule and the coercion,of Ulster. Iho covenant described itself as "a solemn protest on the part of the women of Great Britain against- the attempt to force- Homo Rule- upon the Loyalists of Ireland without any direct reference to the electors. It binds every woman who signs it to render what asBistanco she can to defeat a proposal which means bloodshed and disaster. It further pledges'every woman who signs it to help her loyal fellow women in Ireland by such means as may be within her power should armed force be employed to coorco Ulster.

"Why should yon sign it?" it goes on to ask, and replys: "Because overy woman can do something, whether it be by assisting actively, in some direct manner, the wives and mothers in Ulster, who are so nobly standing by Sir Ldward Carson and the men who have joined with him in resistance to tyranny; or whether it be by using her influence upon those around her