The Irish standard., 1912-09-07
THREE COUNTIES ON
THE RAMPAGE
In Northeast Corner of Ulster
Where Orangemen are in
the Majority.
In the Entire Nine Counties of
the Province, Parties are
Nearly Equal.
Threats of Rebellion by Carson
Not New, and Only Excite
Amusement.

Amusement.
The following interesting article on
Ulster appeared in the Chicago Trib
une Of last Sunday. Sept. 1, from Mr..
Bernard MacGillian, native Of the
province:
Ulster is not opposed to home rule
Instead. u majority of the people OF
Ulster have declared in its favcr at
every election since 1885, when the
household suffrage law was passed
This is a fact Notwithstanding the
cabled reports that Ulster Is preparing
to resist home rule by armed :orce.
These reports are so Inaccurate and
the prevailing impressions on the sub
iect arc so erroneous that the writer
an Ulsteran fully conversant with
conditions. is impelled to attempt u
correction.
The threat to set up a provisional
government in Ulster and take up
arms against the forces of the British
empire is highly amusing to every
person familiar with conditions there.
What are these conditions? Ulster
comprises nine counties and is rerre-
se1lted in the imperial parliament by
SO members. During two parliaments
the. province has beer represented by
II horne. rulers and Is Unionists. From
1885 until 1892 the figures were Is
home rulers and Is Tnionists. while at
present the representation is Is home
rulers and II Unionists. The present
Unionist majority is owing solely to
dissension in the Nationalist ranks In
Derry City, which cost the home rnl-
ers seat there.
Five Counties Are Nationalist.
Analysing the situation further it Is
found that five Ulster counties, Done
gal. Tyrone, Fermanagh. Cavan. and
Monaghan are overwhelmingly Ma
tionalst, while but three counties. An
trim, Down. and Armagh, are corre-
spondingly Unionst. The people OF
the remaining county. Derry. arc prac-
tically equally divided on the question
| In the five Nationalist counties there
are but two Unionist districts. while
| In the three Unionist counties four
districts arc represented by home rul
ers.
| There Is in Ulster much opposition
to home rule. That cannot be denied.
but the opposition is confined almost
entirely to the northeast corner. An
trim and Down. together with the
larger part of Armagh and about half
of Derry.
CIamor to Arouse Sympathy.
What the opposition lacks in NUM-
! bers it cndeavors to make up for In
vociferous protests against An Irish
parlia ament. 1t does not hesitate to
misstate the case, loudly proclaiming
that Ulster will never submit to a
government in Dublin. All this. OF
course, is designed to arouse the sym
pathy of the English electors and thus
defeat the home rule bill. The threats
deceive no one however, The English
as we'll as the Irish people have grown
accustomed to them. They are no
| more serious than those of 1869. 1885.
or 1893.
When Gladstone proposed the discs
tablishment of the Episcopal church IN
| Ireland in 1869 similar threats wore
made. One reverend gentleman de-
clared the Orangemen would kick
the queens crown into the Boyne" II
she dared sign the disestablishn,ent
bill. The bill became law. and neither
the queen nor her crown was molasted
Instead the law was obeyed and all
! hands now concede that 1t was BEN
eficent measure for church and coun-
try alike.
Would Line the bitches.
Gladstones first home rule bill! In
1886 was received with a storm Of
execration in Orange circles. Threats
of rebellion were openly made. Lord
Randolph Churchill, father Of the
present war minister. crossed over to
Belfast and urged resistance. He de-
clared Ulster will fight and Ulster
will be right" apparently blissfully
unconscious Of the fact that at the mo-
anent eighteen Of Ulster's thirty-three
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