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New Zealand Tablet, 3 August 1911, Page 1485

Mr. John Redmond, speaking at Woodford, Essex, dealt once again with the bogus cry of Separation now being raised by Unionists to injure the Home Rule cause. The hon. gentleman said that whatever else the Irish race were, they were not a nation of fools. Irishmen, quite as much as Englishmen or Scotchmen or Welshmen, helped to build up the Empire, and they were not going to surrender their share in the heritage which their fathers created. One is tempted to ask how many of these, blatant orators who go about the country prating of the danger of separation in the event, which is now certain, of Ireland getting Home Rule in the near future, believe what they state. Are there any of them so devoid of common sense as to think that Irish Nationalists imagine an unarmed country, as Ireland is, could in open warfare defeat the British army and navy ? Are the mighty Dreadnoughts and powerful cruisers to be swept off the waters by the few fishing fleets that Ireland employs in peaceful persuits ? *^ 9 M —— r 'in"iii