ULSTER UNIONIST MANIFESTO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 26 November 1910, Page 5

ULSTER UNIONIST MANIFESTO.

A DEFIANT MESSAGE. Received 25, 10.30 p.m. London, November 25. The Ulster Unionist Council, in a manifesto, states that if an Irish Parliament is established there can b? no doubt whatever that the Ulster Unionists will not acknowledge its authority, will not obey its decrees, and will not pay taxes. If this means a civil war the responsibility will be at the door of the craven Government. LORD CURZON'S DECLARATION. Received 25, 10.55 p.m. London, November 25. Lord Curzon said the Unionist alternative policy would preserve to the country the second Chamber, which was no constitutional figment. If he indulged in prophecy, he would stake his whole political existence on the declaration that the final adjustment would be more in the direction of the resolutions than of the Government's Bill. THE HOME RULE QUESTION. Received 25. 10.55 p.m. London, November 25. Mr. Maekinnon Wood, at South Islington, said the referendum would kill Liberalism. Lord Loreburn, in denying Lord St. Aldwyn's allegation that the Government was dishonest in seeking an indirect method to obtain Home Rule, admitted that he hoped to see Home Rule result from some general election. He emphasised the importance of solving Home Rule with regard to the United States and the dominions, where large numbers of people of Irish blood were devoted to Ireland, but the dissolution would settle the relations between the two Houses, and redress admitted grievances. The Government would abide by the country's verdict. LORD LANSDOWNE'S RESOLUTIONS CARRIED. LIBERALS' CLASS PREJUDICE - - DENIED. Received 26, 1.10 a.m. London, November 25. Lord Morley, replying to the Unionists' accusation that the Government spoke in two voices, one of moderation and the other of coarse invective and class hatred, denied that the Liberals were influenced by class prejudice. They would do no real good until the Irish problem was solve!! in a statesmanlike manner. The House then went into committee, and after a protest from Lord Crewe, agreed to the resolutions without division. It was also agreed to communicate all the resolutions, including Lord Rosebery's, to the Commons. j SPEECH BY MR. CHAMBERLAIN. MR. JOHN BURNS' METHAPHOR. Received 26, 1.10 a.m. London, November 25. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in an election address, said the action of the Ministry in forcing a dissolution was revolutionary, not Parliamentary Government, and it was rendered only the more odious because the Ministers were slaves of a scratch majority, whose purpose wai.to establish single Chamber rule and transform the Commons into the people's master. Mr. John Burn=, at Battersea, said the Lords had come half-way down, and the electors must shake the tree and bring them the whole way down with a run.