HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 33, 2 October 1912, Page 8

HOME RULE.

ANTI-HOME RULE DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE.

TREASON-PREACHERS SHOULD BE PROSECUTED.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, October 1.

A great anti-Homc Ride demonstration was held at S.heilpark, Liverpool. Sir E. Carson and Mr F. Smith spoke. The latter declared that three ships could convey ten thousand men to help Ulster in the hour of need.

A monster torchlight procession traversed the principal streets, which wore lined with spectators. Sir Rufus Isaacs, speaking at Reading, said that dummy rifles and toy cannon in Ulster would not prevent the passing of the Home Rule Bill. The Marchioness of Buffering presided at the large meeting of women

Unionists in Belfast. Resolutions were passed against Home Rule. Mr J. W. Galland, speaking at Dumfries, replying to a suggestion that the Government should prosecute men for preaching treason said that he believed the Government was only staying its hand to avoid creating riots. Sir E. Carson ought to be prosecuted, but it was wiser to treat him with silent contempt.

“If the present temper of the country continue, where would we and Home Ride bo then?” This sentence is the key-note of a letter from oxNew Zealander Dr. Chappie, M.P. foi the Scottish seat of Stirlingshire, published in the Cork Free Press. He fears that if by-elections continue to go against the Government, the Kingmay, after the House of Lords has held up the Home Rule Bill for two years, require a general election; and Dr. Chappie’s Irish partition proposal is designed to satisfy public opinion in the larger .island. “To do this,” he writes, “I want to take every argument out of Ulster’s mouth. I do not hope to mollify her or to weaken her unbending hostility, but I do hope to satisfy her sympathisers in Scotland, England and Wales, which is the real battle-ground. With this end in view I made the proposal, not that Ulster should be joined to Scotland (which I believe and hope will never occur), but that the right to claim this—or to claim to join England—should exist in the Bill. I feel convinced that if such a. provision existed Ulster would be gone, and if she raised her hand in violence or shed one drop of blood, she would be convicted by the country of the worst in the category of crimes that blot our nation’s history.”