The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-12-31

Liberal government would, in that
case, resign and a general election be
inevitable.
Might Mean a Revolution.
Assuming that a Liberal majority
would again be returned and that the
peers would once more reject the veto
bill, then still, according to the sup.
position, if the King again refused to
accede to the Liberal demands, the
people would rise in their wrath and
the monarchy, which now stands broad
based on the popular will, would top
pie to its fall.
1t is noteworthy that both sides dur
ing the present campaign studiously
avoided bringing the Crown into the
political arena, but it is undeniable
that among the conservatives there eX-
lists hope, white among the Liberals
there persists apprehension that the
King will demur to the Liberal demand
for the creation of so radical house
Of Peers. Some Liberals, indeed, be-
lieve that King George refused the
conditional guarantees which Asquith
is believed to have asked for prior to
the dissolving of Parliament. This is
pure speculation, as the Premier, on
This matter, kept his own counsel
This contingency of a double royal
refusal, required as the foundation for
this forecast of possible revolution,
seems extremely remote.
To his remark about the first shot
at Ulster being the Fort Sumter of
civil war in these islands, he added
these words:
81 hope and believe that danger will
be avoided"
The man who makes this statement
is John Louis Garvin, who has been
chief organizer of the Unionist cam
paign, it's leading spirit, maker of
its batteries and molder of it's des-
TIMES.
Mr.. Garvin continued:
81 do not think that Ireland is the
least likely to obtain any such meas
ure of home rule as Redmond has
been deluding his poor countrymen in
Ireland and Irish-Americans across the
ocean into hoping for. Asquith has
never intended to bring in a home rule
bill of the scope outlined by Nation
alists. If this election had gone as
Liberals hoped, and the Government
had been returned with a majority
sufficiently large to disregard the Ma
tionalists, nothing would have been
heard of home rule.
"Now that Asquith is dependent
upon Irish support for his tenure of
Office he is reluctantly pressed into
purchasing their votes by advocacy of
the Nationalists' aspirations. How
far the Liberals can be forced in this
direction by the Redmondites remains
to be seen. And here lies the most
serious danger in the immediate fu-
ture of British politics.
81 know Ulster well, and | know it
will never tolerate any trucking to
Nationalist ambitions, in which it sees
perils for its religion and it's liberty.
Here, | repeat, is the danger"
One Shot Might Start War.
And Garvin slowly and thoughtfully
spoke the words already quoted about
the first shot at Ulster being the Fort
Sumter of civil war. He continued:
"The danger is like the danger of
panic in a theater. You have an out.
break of fire, and there is perhaps no
great risk. But somebody cries, |
"Fire!" and Immediately panic seizes
upon the people and they rush blindly |
for safety, with deadly results. Shots |
fired at Fort Sumter precipitated your
Civil War One shot fired at Ulster |
might have the same result as the cry |
of fire in a theater.
81 know Ulster men, and / know |
they will have no home rule such as
Dillon wants, l have been charged ,
with inconsistency because, after urg-
ing the Unionist party to undertake |
the task of extending local self-gov-
eminent in Ireland, l am now oppos-
ng Redmondite dictation / am not
inconsistent. ! still hold, as l have
always held, that Irish aspirations