HOME RULE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 September 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE.

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(United Pre** Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

ULSTERMEN'S ENTHUSIASM. SPEECH BY SIR E. CARSON. (Received Last Night, 11. lfT'o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 25. There was & scene of enthusiasm when Lord Londonderry and Sir Edward Carson entered the hall at Belfast. Both emphasised the Ulstermen's determination to defend their rights. Lordi Londonderry, who presided, was greeted with ringing cheers when he remarked, "We await the signal and we can to-day say to the Government, 'We are ready—you can strike when you please.' " Sir Edward Carson, in a calm and unimpassioned speech, ridiculed the Radical attempts to convert what was the essence of Ulster's loyalty into treason. If the Government drove Ulster into resistance, it would split society from top to bottom, paralyse trade, and hare a disastrous effect on the foroes of the Crown. He remarked that men, whose sole aim ought to b» Gavernment of the Empirte and its defence, were already dividing into hostile camps. He kn®.w of no alternative to the establishment of a provisional Government; Swrrender was out of the qutsiiwt. "Lei them," Sir Edward sai4, "remember when Irish unionism was accused of fighting against England, there was a majority of thirty-two Englishmen in the House of Commons, against the Home Rule Bill." He added: "We may perhaps be coerced in the long run into submission, because they have an army and-navy. If England with a majority of thirty-two against Home Rule allows her army and navy to be used, we .may be. coerced, but in that event we -will be governed as a conquered community and nothing else." ' '

NEWSPAPER COMMENT. "CARSON'S MOCK PARLIAMENT" (Received Last Night, 11.10 o'clock.) LONDON,' Sept. 25. Liberal newspapers scoff at what they described as "Carson's mock Parliament,", and deprecate.the starting of a spirit of lawlessness, which is calculated to find imitators in other directions. Unionist newspapers describe the resolutions as marking a step of the utmost gravity. The Telegraph warns the Government that there is still time to avert bloodshed, if they act as the trustees of the Empire, and' not the pledgebound allies of the Nationalist party.