HOME RULE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 116, 2 October 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE.

ARMED OPPOSITION.

By Cable—Press Association —Oopyrigkt. New York, September 30.

Lord Claud Hamilton, interviewed, said that he 'was willing to participate in armed opposition against Home Rule, No political party was fomenting an uprising in Ulster; the movement was solely due to the spontaneous action of the people of Ulster.

A NATIONALIST RESOLUTION'. London, September 30. At the Home Rule demonstration at Mohill, .several thousand Nationalists passed a resolution never to give up the demand for self-government until it was conceded.

A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. THE GOVERNMENT FIRM. PREACHING TREASON. Received 1, 9.55 p.m. London, October 1. A great anti-Home Rule demonstration was held at Sheilpark, Liverpool. Sir E. Carson and Mr. F. Smith spoke. The latter declared that three ships could convey ten thousand men to help Ulster in the hour of need.

A monster torchlight procession traversed the principal streets, which were lined with spectators. Sir. Rufus Isaacs, speaking at Reading, said that dummy rifles and toy cannon in Ulster would not prevent the passing of the Home Rule Bill.

The Marchioness of Duffering presided at a large meeting of women Unionists in Belfast. Resolutions were passed against Hom.e Rule. Mr. J. W. Galland, speaking at Dumfries, replying to a suggestion that the Government should prosecute men for preaching treason, said that he believed the Government was only staying its hand to avoid creating riots. Sir E. Carson ought to he prosecuted, but it was wiser to treat him with silent contempt.

"If the present temper of the country continue, where would we and Home Rule be then?" This sentence is the key-note of a letter from ex-New Zealander Dr. Chappie, M.P. for the Scottish seat of Stirlingshire, published in the Cork Free Press. He fears that if by-elections continue to go against th« Government, the King may, after the House of Lords has held up the Home Rule Bill for two years, require a general election; and Dr. Chappie's Irish partition proposal is designed to satisfy public opinion in the larger island. "To do this," he writes, "I want to take every- argument out of Ulster's mouth. I do not hope to mollify her or to weaken her unbending hostility, hut I do hope to satisfy her sympathisers .in Scotland, England and Wales, which is the real battle-ground. With this end in view I made the proposal, not that Ulster should he joined to Scotland (which I believe and hope will never occur), but that the right to claim this —or to claim to join England—should exist in the Bill. I feel convinced that if such a provision existed Ulster would be gone, and if she raised her hand in violence or shed one drop of blood, she would be convicted by the country of the worst in the category of crimes that blot our nation's history."