THE FINANCIAL ABSURDITY OF HOME ROLE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 8

THE FINANCIAL ABSURDITY OF HOME ROLE.

flir.—As nwiy people ill;. Now %>akml ];ikiw liti-lo a'hcni-t Hmivo Rub, even iia, broad ami gwiM'al sciisft, J. sravo * a liiilci of y«mr spaco to Wiittt <wt smic <,f tin- Miusiih-ratiims of ftsiatico involved in l.iii' qnoniUw. Scotkvml, and \Vni<?s are fft ho failed _ttpoH ifl Pay lvflH-OiM! six Hftrl s«VCJ! million powuls a \Var foi- ! lie % wry •wM.'nnnhlo .luxury of a separatist PnvTiairioftl vn ftaWlin! This amount. is made. njj as follows;-— Half ii million is *o_ bo givci.t ns n di- . reci subsidy, a million anil a half rc-

presents ilia Irish deiir.il, and iho balance is ijiade up by tho increasing fast of laud pumh.ase, old age limisioi-i.s, imkJ insurance, and relieving Ireland of iiii share in the national <te!)i, and in the payment «f th/; military iorees of the Eiiijlii'i!. As the Eight Jlul .1. to,. Smith points out. it would be as reasonable for London, Liverpwo'l, and iiirmuigfiaul to foot the bill' fay a .v.'pyf.vi.o Kingdom <of Notthujmferia, The :»nm sefc asitjo for the rcsorml service <if ediiteatioij is a feed <mo, and tlwcforo cti-u----catipu in I relaml will tftuiain «iipio«ressivc unless, indeed, more money caii bo 1-aiser.l by a Natimi.iiisi I'a.rliftmtfnt by a protective tarflf against England. A.s l'oi' Customs revenue, lioiiasj, pays niafo Uipit i.vo-thirds of llje U.Uil amount. In Ij i'^ ! wer J"®«<> 'S m pay for Homo Huiis except (he people wi'io WiSiit, jj.. At tin) same time, lWt.y-hv® Irish men> hers are to sit at Westminster aird. when occasion arises, hold tJio balance of power.

As for the proposed safeguards, if iho Lieutenant diet not take the advice of liis nationalist Government,, .the latter would rosi.r;!, and. Ireland would ho deprived ot Parliamentary government, in® vrtfl of the Lord Lieutenant. ®xereised ill favour <i.( the minority* is unis. absolutely worthless. it is'tittle w.mdei that .Mr. A«jiiirh makes no a.tW def<?hd principles of hi.,. Bill, for they are mostly indefensible, and confesses himself, to use his. own Words, # "credulous optimist.®' Thi= s whafc th ? N,,t,J, 1 .,,* ma(]p 1- rime Minister of hiiEla-tnl.—l am etc .... ULSTER SCOT '