The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED TH EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1913. THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 72, 25 November 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED TH EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1913. THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Sir Bampfyldo Fuller, formerly Lieu-tenant-Hovernor of Bengal, examines {tlie “Psychology of the Irish Question” in an article in the “Nineteenth iCentnry ami After.” He thinks that j I Ister will set up a Parliament of its own as soon as the Nationalist Parliament is established in Dublin, and that it will not he doin' without extensive rioting, which the British Government would prohah|y he compelled to suppress with military force. Then all parties would realise the absolute necessity of compromise. The writer recalls this story of Sir David Baird’s capture hy Tippoo Sultan, who cast him into prison, chained to a soldier. When the news of the general’s cap-1 tore was broken to his old mother, she exclaimed: “May Hod help the: laddie that’s chained to our Davie.” Sir Bamplylde Fuller comments that “things would not he pleasant lor Homan Catholic Ireland in bondage.” He considers that lister, having once j elected a Parliament, would insist up-j on retaining it, in which case the other,

three provinces of Ireland should also be endowed with local Parliaments and Ministries. All the provincial Parliaments would have to he subordinated in some fashion to the central Parliament in Dublin. “The passion oi the day is to discuss the affairs oi the community,” he writes, “and the nearer the issues are brought to the voters the more interesting the voters find them.”