HOME RULE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13524, 4 November 1911, Page 5

HOME RULE.

Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, November 3. In the House of Commons, the Hon. H. H. Asquith resolutely declined to accede to Mr O’Brien’s request to forecast the Government’s Home Rule proposals. He invited Mr O’Brien to disclose his own plan, adding that any constructive suggestions would be treated with all consideration and sympathy. SPEECH BY MR. REDMOND. Received November 4, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, November 3. Mr Redmond addressed a crowded meeting at the City Liberal Club on the economic and financial aspect of Honm Rule. He declared that it had been England’s deliberate policy for two centuries to destroy Irish industries, hence her commercial and industrial history was one of continual stagnation. It was hopeless to expect Ireland to rouse herself until she obtained a native Government. During the greater part of the century she had been paying 2J millions above a fair proportion, and during a century had contributed 399 millions for army, navy, and the general purposes of the Empire. The Irish government was the most costly in the world, because it was not a willing partnership. It was one of the richest countries. Every luxury given to England was extended to Ireland and charged to Irish revenue. There was no incentive to economy. Let Britain make a bargain with Ireland in a generous and final settlement. Parliamentary business was so congested that Home Rule was equally required in England, Scotland, and Wales. A remarkable feature of the meeting was that Lord Beauchamp presided and the Master of Elibank moved a vote of thanks to Mr Redmond