CAUSE OF THE RISING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 122, 24 May 1916, Page 5

CAUSE OF THE RISING.

LONDON, May 22. Mr W. IT. Massingham, writing in the Nation, says: The Dublin rising was due, in my opinion, firstly, to the formation of the Coalition Goernment, and the latter’s resort to conscription; secondly, to the pin-prick policy of compromise instead of the disarmament of the oluntcers, and a bold blow at their organisation; thirdly, to the English administration of absenteeism, and Mr Redmond’s absorption on the English side of the Nationals t movement; fourthly, the gradual loss of finer idealism and the Sinn Fein absorption of the Fenian spirit; fifth, by the temptation the war offered to the old. reolutionanes; sixthly, the resentment at the severity of the suppresion of the Dublin strikes; soenthly, Ulster's resort to force when Ireland was settling down to its abandonment.