HOME RULE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 December 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE.

FULL STEAM AHEAD.

MR BONAR LAW,

RECEIVED WITH CHEERING

TURBULENT SCENES OUTSIDE

THEATRE,

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, November 29.

The Right Hon. A. Bonar Law, Leader of the. Unionist Party, in a speech at Dublin,' said Mr Asquith had accepted Mr John Redmond's orders for full-steam ahead. The Unionists were, therefore, prepared to meet him and beat him.

The meeting, which was organised by Unionists, received this declaration with cheers, the company standing and waring their handkerchiefs. Mr Bonar Law had a tremendous ovation from the four thousand people, in the Dublin Theatre Royal, each waving an Union Jack.

An overflow meeting was necessary. Turbulent scenes took place :outsido the Theatre.

A woman was sent to the hospital with a broken nose, caused by a bullet wound. ;.

The crowd beat a man when he was leaving the theatre. They dragged Him off a tram-car and further illtreated him.

The police prevented another crowd, composed largely of students, from approaching the theatre. The students thereupon marched into Rutland Square and smashed the Catholic Cemetery Committee's windows, mistaking them for the Orange Lodge's, next door. Mr Bonar Law interpreted the contrast between the Ladybank and Leeds speeches as showing that, besides the bargain with the Nationalists, there was in existence written evidence which would damn the Liberals for evermore if they were disclosed. Referring to Mr Lloyd George's admission that the Insurance Act had been forced through when he knew that if it had been referred to the people it would have been rejected. Mr Bonar Law asked whether the Government was doing the same with Homo Rule. The Government had imprisoned Larkin to please the Nationalists, and had released him to' please the English Socialists. If ''l hj&"; Government - really believed themselves entitled to' pass ,the Home Rule Bill, they showed criminal weakness in allowing the Ulster organisation to continue. They were aware that any attempt to arrest Sir Edward Carbon would show how deeply earnest Ulster was. Perhaps, he said, he would be endangering Sir Edward Carson's liberty without risking his own. He was, he declared, ready to give the Government the right to prosecute him also.

Proceeding, Mr Bonar Law eaid the Unionists were still ready to consider any proposal to avert a civil war. He thought Mr Asquith desired and saw a prospect of .settlement, but his Leeds speech implied tli4t Mr Redmond had given orders. If the Government attempted to coerce Ulster before an election, Ulster would do well to resist, and the Unionists would support this resistance. His candid opinion was that the Government intended to "bluff" until the last, and then climb down.