THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 24, 1911. HOME RULE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10293, 24 July 1911, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 24, 1911. HOME RULE.

Prom the point of view of a great many people, the most serious effeot. the forcing of -the Parliament, Rill the Lords .witt • have, upon the country,- will he the. certainty'of the passage of a Home Rule Bill. Whether rightly or wrongly, there is. a large section of the British public which fears that Home Rule for Ireland will spell disaster. We in New Zealand, who have been governing ourselves for the last isixty or seventy years, do not apprehend any such calamity. Still, it is interest- i ing <to note that a few weeks back— ! in May last-r-the / Nonconformist Union of Great Britain issued the following circular: — "If the Parliament Bill becomes law the Home Rule crisis will 'become imore acute than ever before, especially as there is every reason to believe that the j Leader of the Irish Nationalist parity will receive the support of the majority of Radical statesmen in his proposal .for the establishment of *a separate Parliament- in Ireland. The consequences of such a proposal, if carried into effect,' would be so farTeaching and bo serious that ft behoves every Unionist to do his utmost to resist it, and to endeavour to .save _ the people of Ireland from an unspeakable calamity, and the United Kingdom from irreparable disaster. The Nonconformist Unionist Association, embracing Nonconformists of all denominations, have ia fthe past taken an active, useful, and successful part ii> defeating pre-

vious Home Rule proposals ; but up to the present time no general appeal has boon made for financial assistance. We are of Opinion, however, that the time has. arrived when ou,r association should be materially strengthened, and a general appeal made .to Nonconformists of this country to assist the Unionist -party in their opposition to Home Rule. We already have lists of a large number of Nonconformists who are pledged to support their co-religionists in Ireland to resist any and all proposals tending to impair the union between Great Britain and Ireland. TT