HOME RULE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 73, 13 August 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE

SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL. VIGOROUS ATTACK ON MR. BONAR LAW. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 12, 10.15 p.m. London, August 12. Mr. Churchill, in a letter to the chairman of the Liberal organisation at Dundee, referring to Home Rule, declares that he deals at some length with Mr. Bonar Law's threats, not because Mr. Bonar Law is likely to carry them out, or because there is no remedy if he did. He adds that Mr. Bonar Law declares that there is no length to which Orangemen might go in resisting, not tyranny and ill-usage, but Home Rule, which he does not support, arguing that it was not an issue at last election. This is untrue, and Mr. Bonar Law's doctrines are fatal. Evolution has been proceeding for the last two generations towards consolidation and reconciliation, * ending to make a home within the Empire for all ite people and .thus establish their rights, respect their creeds, and honor their traditions, enabling all to stand together in high eomradsship with freedom unbroken in the hour of trial. Mr. Bonar Law's doctrines were not only pernicious in external affairs, but hfs counsels of violence and mutiny may not be unattractive to many millions of very poor suffering toilers in the slums at home, who, harkening to them, may be lured to their own and public disaster. Mr. Bonar Law's doctrines, embodied in his Blenheim speech, are Mr. Tillett's at Tower Hill, but Mr. Tillett's men are starving. The talk of civil war emanates from one side alone, but were Home Rule frustrated Mr. Bonar Law, within twelve months possibly, would be sending Nationalists to servitude or the gallows, and be holding three provinces in the grip of the Coercion Act in the name of law and order, on which he now recklessly tramples. The Government will pursue its path patiently, until its work is done. The transference of power to its successors will not be effected by violent means', and will not occur until Mr. Bonar Law divests himself of the doctrines disqualifying him for official responsibilities, doctrines whereby every lawless or disruptive movement in any part of the Empire can be justified, and whence every street bully -with a brickbat, and every crazy fanatic fumbling with a pistol may derive inspiration.