SIR EDWARD CARSON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 4

SIR EDWARD CARSON.

The measures that are being employed by Sir Edward Carson and bis following of titled gentry to force a dissolution of the - British Parliament are open t» the very gravest censure. Apart entirely from the merits or demerits of the Home Rule question r the larger isswe of the rights . and i privilege? ©f .Parliament is seridasJjr' Involved. If «very great measure passed by Parliament is to be made the subject of a civil waar, then we may at once say good : bye to representative govorninea*. The people as a whole had an opportunity at the last election of expressing themselves on the vital question of Home Rule. They returned! td power a Gov©»n>-, ment that was pledged to concede local self-government to Ireland. The responsibility for the progress- of Home Rule events therefore rests entirely with the people, and in resisting the will of Parliament, Sir Idward Carson is setting at defiance theexpressed will of the people. In these days of democratic sentiment, such a. defiance is intolerable. From this distance it seems almost unthinkable that the Government should permit revolutionary measures stuch as those adopted by Sir Edward Carson without prompt and effective intervention. By remaining inactive when a crisis is being precipitated, the €fovernment is displaying a lack of moral [ courage that will do more to damage | its reputation than all the resistance that Sir Edward Carsctti could offer.