HOME RULE FOR IRELAND

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1914, Page 6

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND

STIRRING SPEECH BY MR REDMOND. ' [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [Unitep Pkkss Association.! London, February 7.

Mr Redmond, leader of the Nationalists, in a speech at the National Liberal .Club, stud the opposition to Home Rule was less on its merits than to the Parliament Act, and the desire of the Government to restore the House of Lords' veto. He declared the Tory party was without a programme or policy, and was now falling back on poor Ireland for a party cry. Irishmen would no longer submit to be made pawns and playthings of British parties. Ireland would never submit to be governed by the old, rotten system of superiority and ascendancy. If opponents succeeded and killed the Bill, Ireland would be absolutely ungovernable under the old regime. Any Nationalists' concession to meet the fears of any section must Imj the price paid for conciliation, assent and agreement to the. Bill. Concessions on any other basis would be mischievous and futile. The question must be settled here and now. He concluded that the Nationalists would be#fools, cowards, and traitors to the highest interests of order, liberty and democracy as well as to Ireland, if they allowed any threat of violence to turn them a hair's-breadth from the path they believed and knew would lead to a contented Ireland and United Empire.