IRISH HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 38, 27 January 1912, Page 5

IRISH HOME RULE.

THE USE OF TROOPS AT BELFAST

UNDESIRABLE

MR REDMOND’S OPINIONS

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 26.

The Times Dublin correspondent states it is understood.that the Irish executive are averse to the employment of troops, fearing if the Unionists resisted, much bloodshed and disorder would ensue, while if they yielded to force it would enable them to prove that Homo Rule was only thrust upon Ulster at the bayonet’s point. I Still there are great risks- if Mr Churchill sneaks elsewhere than at the Ulster Hall.

Mr Redmond, in an article in Reynolds newspaper, declares there is no terror in Ulster of the Orangemen’s threats, which are only insolent bluff. They are loyal only in their own bigoted interests. England would bo a nation of fools and poltroons if it allowed itself to bo diverted by unpatriotic heliowings from a great policy binding Ireland to the Empire. Mr Churchill, in a letter to Lord Londonderry, emphasised the latter’s responsibility if rioting occurred. Still it was Mr Churchill’s duty to keep his promise to Ulster Liberals, and to assert the right of free speech. If the main objection was the use of the Ulster Hall he would ask the Liberal Association to choose whatever hall would leaset arouse the ill-feeling of Orangemen.