HOME RULE.
From a cable message appearing in our issue this morning, it will be seen that Lord St. Aldwyn, who, as Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, was Secretary for Ireland, urges that both parties should agree to take the voice of the country on the Home Rule question. He states that "no responsible Minister would contend that Home Rule should become law if the majority of the people were opposed to it." Lord St. Aldwyn is perfectly correct on this point. But was not the Home Rule question prominently before the country when the last appeal was made? Moreover, is not the Government entitled to ask that the voice of the whole of the people, and not of a portion of it, shall be taken, and that no person shall be entitled to exercise more than one vote? We should assume" that the Government would have no objection to taking the voice of the people on the one-raan-one-vote principle. And that, after all, is the only true test of public sentiment when grave national issues are concerned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 October 1913, Page 4
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176HOME RULE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 October 1913, Page 4
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