HOME RULE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 19 November 1912, Page 5

HOME RULE.

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(United r r+m Auociatum—By fflectrie Telegraph — Copyright.)

SPEECH BY Ml REDMOND.

"UNIONISTS PROVE THEMSELVES ANARCHISTS."

(Received November 18, 9.18 a.m.) LONDON, November 17. Mr John Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist Party, speaking at York, said the Unionist headers, by their recent action, had proved themselves anarchists. They had deliberately attempted to overcome the majority by violence. If they succeeded it would mean the end of Parliamentary gov-

I eminent. Mr Asquith denies the rumour that I the Government is dropping tho Welsh Disestablishment Bill, v Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affaire, in a letterread at a Liberal meeting at Alnwick, commenting on the Unionists' militancy, «aid, "As no measure to which tho Opposition objects can operate until it is passed three times or there has been an appeal to the country / the Unionists' violence is inexcus- ) able."

FINANCIAL PROVISIONS. "ROTTEN TO THE CORE," SAYS MR O'BRIEN.

(■Received November 18, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 17.

In a speech at Cork, Mr William O'Brien, Leader of the Independent Nationalist Party, said tho finance provisions of the Homo Rule Bill were rotten to the core. Mr Lloyd George hated Home Rule and Irish land purchase, and had brought the Bill and tho Government to the vergo of ruin.

Mr Lloyd George had, added, Mr O'Brien, done more damage to Ireland's cause than anyone since Cromwell.