Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
REMARKABLE Scenes IN ULSTER WHEN CITIZENS !.
SNORE IfEYVOUID not YIELD T)HOMERULEP
Solemn PLEDGE Taken BY Thou
sands, With Prominent Men
as the Leaders

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The recent remarkable scenes 10
Ulster growing out OF the Home Rule
for ireland controversy, have filled the
British press for weeks. Mr.. w. r.
Castle, who IL travelling abroad, has
sent 10 the Star-Bulletin the follow.
ing article from the London Daily
Mail OF September 4. which. sets forth
the gravity Of the Ulster protest:
AT the meeting Of the Ulster Union.
ist Council yesterday the following
resolution wac unanimously agreed to,
on the proposition OF the Marquis Of
Londonderry, X. c.
The Pledge.
Inasmuch as we, the duly elected
delegates and members Of the Ulster
Uniohist Council, representing al
parts on Ulster. are firmly persuaded
that BY no law can the right 70 gov
ern 4hose whom we represent by fart.
cred away without their consent that
although the present Government, ttt
services and sberihces of generations,
OF our race having been forgotten,
may drive .us forth from the Constitu.
aion. which We have ever loyalty tp-
held. they may not deliver us bound
into the hands OF our enemies, and
that Il Is. incompetent for any author
fly. party or people to appoint as our
rulers q government dominated bvs
men disl0yal to the Empire. and to
whom our faith and traditions are
hateful;
And inasmneh as we reverentiy be-
lieve that as m times past It was givs
en- our fathers to save themselves
from 4 like calamity, 50 now II may
tie ordered that our deliverance shall
be by our own hands, to which end Ii
isfneedfgi that we be knit togethr as
one man. each strengthening the other
and none holding hack or counting
the cost:
Therefore we loyalists OF Ulster ra-
tifs and confirm the steps so far TAX
en- BY the special commission this day
submitted and explained to us, and we
reappoint the commission to carry on
IL work on our behalf as in the past;
We enter into the solemn Covenant
appended hereto, and, knowing the
gIeatnes Of the Issues pending on our
faithfulness. We promise each to the
others that to the uttermost Of the
strength and means given to us, and
not regarding any selfish or private in.
tesest, our substance, our lives. We
viii make good the said solemn Co
yenaht.
And we now bind ourselves In the
steadfasf determination that whatever
may befaH, no such domination shall
be thrust upon us, and in the hope
that by the blessings of God our union
with Great Britain. upon which are fix,
ed our affections and trust, may YET
be maintained. and that. for ourselves
and for our children. for this province
and for the whole OF Ireland, peace,
Prosperity. and civil and religious lib
efty may be secured under the Parlia-
mcnt OF the United Kingdom ard of
the King, whole faithful subjects we
arc and will continue all our days.
The Covenant IT,. .
The following is the text of the
Covenant - -
Being convinced In our conscience
that Home Rule would be disastrous
NJ t1C Vi OIoISI,
as we'll as to tine whole OF ireland,
subyersive to our civil and religious
freedom, destructive to our citizen
ship and pcrilons to the unity of the
Empire.
We whose mares are underwritteh,
r~n of ulster. level subjects to his
I,s.yioGs Majesty King George the
Firm. hnnbfs relying on the God
sisnm niif fathers IN days of stress
,tisd trial confidently trusted, hereby
l'stge ourselves IN solemn covenant
ii4usiehOut this our tine of threaten.
a kkiamity TO- stand by one another
4 II HeFending for ourselves and our
t.aHren, our cherished position Of
ksai citizenship IN the United King
iees and in. using all the means
"itiiea ray % bound necessary to de-
I'D lie p2cseat conspiracy 80 set up
iitirs 8Aise In Ireland; ~
In TIE event ct such q Parliament
being forced upon us, we soiemnty
and mutually pledge ourselves TO re-
fuse TO recognize its authority, III