HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 53, 4 March 1913, Page 8

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

CAUSTIC CRITICISM. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Press Association.) London, March 3. A meeting of the All-for-Irelund League, at Cork, adopted by acclamation a resolution moved by Lord Dunraven, seconded by Mr O’Brien and supported by Mr T. Healy, declaring that it was the Covernment’s duty to convene a conference of all parties in the United Kingdom to effect a settlement of the self-government of Ireland by consent. Mr O’Brien described the Home Rule Bill as “rotten, beggarly and unworkable, giving not a Grattan Parliament but a Molly Maguire shebeen house.” It left Ireland financially worse off than the Council’s Bill. Dr O’Donnell, who is president of the Victorian United Irish League, declares that the agitation in Ulster against Home Rule is purely artificial. The idea that Ulster is wholly against Home Rule is obviously a falacy, because if the Nationalists gain one of the 'vacant Derry seats (as they have done by capturing tiie seat held by the Marquis of Hamilton) they would return 17 members, as against 16 by the Unionists. As a matter of fact they (the Nationalists) have won both the Derry scats. If the Home Rule Bill becomes law Dr. O’Donnell will be scut to Dublin as the Australian special envoy, but he prefers that all the Australian States and New Zeland shall be represented at the reassembly of an Irish Parliament on the College Green. \