HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 70, 22 November 1913, Page 6

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

the cabinet divided. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] I United Press Association.] London, November 21. The Daily Mail state* that there is a serious division in the Cabinet. A section headed by Mr Churchill, including Mr Lloyd George, Sir E. Grey, and Lord Haldane favors the exclusion of Ulster .and Messrs McKenna, Huuciman, Birrell and others are definitely opposed to this, believing that the Ulstermen will yield il sufficient force is available. Mr Asquith has not revealed his personal opinion.

The Ulster volunteers force is now ninety thousand.

TAKING NO RISK.

Nobody, not even Sir Edward Carson, is taking too much risk about the Ulster campaign, writes a London correspondent under date the 10th October. True, Sir Edward has “contributed” £IO,OOO towards the indemnity fund. But ah interesting sidelight upon the great sum said to have been given in that cause is the announcement that the risk of the guarantors is being underwritten at Lloyd’s on a 10 per cent, basis. Thus, for £IOOO Sir Edward might cover his' promise of £IO,OOO, and Lloyd’s express their opinion about the likelihood of war in ’Ulster by betting TO to 1 against it. Then'it is somewhat extraordinary that the Ulster volunteer will only lay down his life provided lie is adequately insured against risk. Meanwhile, Sir Edward Carson and Mr F. E. Smith have finished their campaign during the last days of the long vacation, and they have now returned to London to take up their large and lucrative'practices at the bar. This sort of thing does not square with one’s conception of the true spirit of rebellion and heroic leadership. A man is a rebel or ho is not. There can be no compromise. When men of England revolted against the Stuarts they cheerful,v threw their lives and property upon the battlefield and made it neck or nothing.”