Mr John Redmond and Home Rule.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43070, 19 March 1907, Page 3

Mr John Redmond and Home Rule.

(By Telegraph!— Press Association.)

LONDON, Yesterday. M!r John Redmond, speaking at Bradford, f"aid the Government was about to attempt some kind of devolution. ' They endeavouring by tinkering with a rotten system to reform ip. Nothing would satisfy Ireland -yut an Irish Parliament with executive responsibility. If the Government - scheme laid a. foundation whereon they could build, and gave genuine control, even of the. question administration alone, and lightened •she financial burden under which Ireland staggered, then possibly Ireland might seriously consider whether it ought not to be accepted for what it was. worth. A popular convention of Nationalist forces must decide. He warned the Government that it must choose between trusting to the people passing the scheme whether short of home rule or whether or not it was upon broad popular democratic principles, and the alternative of breaking with Ireland and the National party With the prospect of again attempting to govern by means of the rusty and discredited weapon of coercion. Mf Tohn Redmond at Liverpool saicnjnless the Government was guilty of treachery as great as the violation of the Treaty of,Limerick, they were on the eve of a great and genuine attempt to give Irishmen control of Irish affairs.