WINSTON CHURCHILL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10692, 13 August 1912, Page 5

WINSTON CHURCHILL

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(United Pr«S Aotociationr—By "Electric Telegraph—Copyright.).

REPLIES TO BONAR LAW

A TRENCHANT CRITICISM

(Received Last Night 10.15 o'clock.)

LONDON, August 12.

Tho Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a letter to tho Chairman of the Liberal Organisation at Dundee, in reference to the Home Rule question, deals at some length with Mr Bonar Law's threats, net, he says, because Mr Bonar Law is likely to carry thc-m out, nor bee.vjffe there was i::o remedy if he did.

Mr Churchill add?:—"Mr Bonar Law declares that there is ,no length to which the Orangemen of Ulster might not go in resisting, not t-yraiMvy and ill-usage, mark y.o.ti f but Home Rule, which he dees not support, arguing tli;it it v.'is not an issue at the last election. This is urjtrue. Mr Bonar Law's doctrines arc fatal to that evolution which has been proceeding for the last two generations to--1 wu/d a consolidation and reconciliation tending to make a home within the Empire for all its people, and thus establish their -rights,' mrpect th.?:> creeds, and honour their traditions, enabling all to at,and together in high comradeship and freedom, unbroken in the hour of-trial. Mr Bonar Law'r doctrines are not only pernicious, <-x far as they relate to external affairs. His con,reels of violence and mutiny may not be unattractivo to many milHons of very poor and suffering toilers in the slums at Home who, hearkening thereto, may be lured to their ( own and to the public disaster. Mr ' Bonar Law's doctrines embodied in his Blenheim speech, aro Bon TilletV doctrines expounded at Tower Hill; but Tillet'is men were starving. The talk of civil war emanates from one side alone; but were Home Rule frustrated, Mr Bonar Law, within twelve months, would possibly, be j sending the Nationalists to servitude j or the gallows, and would be Jiolding three provinces in the grip of coercion, and would act in the manner of the same l;;w and order that he new recklessly tramples under foot. The Government will pursue its path patient- i ly and soberly until its work b done, lite traiiisforanco of power to its sue- i cesfiors will not be effected by violent means, and will not occur until Mr Bonar Law divests himself of doctrines! disqualifying him from official responsibilities, doctrines whereby a. veiry lawlesg or disruptive movement ' in any part of the Empire can be jus- , tiffed, and from whence every street bully with a brickbat, and every cfrazv famtic fumbling a pistol, may derive 'n^piratioa."