HOME RULE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10674, 22 July 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE

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(United Press Association—By TSlectrie Telegraph—Copyright.)

•MR ASQUITi iN DUBLIN

SUFFRAGETTES ROUGHLY

HANDLED.

((Received Last 'Night, 5.5 o'clock.

LONON, July 20. Mr William Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist Party, presided .at am overcrowded meeting in the theatre at Dublin, which was addressed toy tike Eight Hon. H. iH. Asquitii, Prime Minister. There v.-as tumultuous enthusiasm, and Mr Asquith was eheered for fire minutes. The 'Prime Minister siaid lie was the bearer of a message of peace and reconciliation between Ireland and Britain. The'Nationalists'hi<rl with them, besides a. majority of the people the heart-felt sympathy of the vast mass of their fellow-subjects, without distinction of r.'irtv, in all the self-gov-ern,ing Dominions. With unity., discipline, ants -patience, the end was within sight. The Home Rule Bill would be sent to the House of Lords before Christmas, and whatever its immediate fortunes, the Lords would no longer have power to override the judgment of the people. Irish nationality was, he said, quite consistent with Imperial unity and lovaltv to the United Kingdom. The attitude of Ulster was unreasonable. He did not believe that there wa.s a nrospect of civil war. The minorities 1 bad rights, and their susceptibilities ought to be considered, but the judgement of the British would never tolerate the minority frustrating a great international settlement in which the Government had the sympathy of all the Dominions. Home Rule wns the first steD in the direction of Imperial reorganisation, of which it wa,s nearly a solution. The suffragettes, in attempting to par ado during the meeting, were met with cries of "Hatchet! Gunpowder!" The suffragettes replied, "Whp.t about men shooting their landlords?" The crowd was so exasperated that the suffragettes were comipelWl. to j take refuge in the'post'office, the win- J dows of which they lmd recently smashed. But for police intervention, tbev would have been thrown into the | river Liffey. i