The Irish standard., 1912-10-05

i'll Belfast. and that is the spirit in
Lodges of Ulster (groans), Mr.. Wal
lace. spoke the other day when he ut
tered the infamous words which will
make his name a Kissing and an
abomination to every honorable and
brave man throughout the world.
Now, the extremity to which Ulster
the shipyard in Belfast. and how can
any reasonable man blame the brutal
Orange worllinEmcn of Belfast. who
committed these assaults, if they took
these words of Bonar Law as u solemn
endorsement of their action ana an
appeal to them to go and do likewise
another scandal even worse than the
speech Of Mr.. Bonar Law. On tho
platform, sitting beside him, was tho
great Catholic noblcman of England.
the Duke OF Norfolk, IL man who three
or four years ago was welcomed ut
| Armagh hy the Irish in their generous
opening of the Cathedral in Armagh.
He sat by Bonar Law and approved
| of the action of the Ulster Oran9cmcn
| in kicking to death the Catholics of
Belfast. He never uttered a word nf
| protest. Hnd he never rose from th"
| platform to retire. and from this plat
challenge the Duke of Norfolk to have
the manlnesS and the courage to
come out and condemn and rcpudiate
/ that language ichecrsl.
| a Voice--,He will &c, the same re-
! ception again (hcar, hcnr).
Mr.. Dillun-Well. all ] can say is
this, that he will never get much of ~
reception in Ireland again il he does
not speak out rs n man (hcnr. hear).
| Ulster we are told will bar the road
, to Irish liberty and maintain the Union.
They are going to enter into a solemn
covenant. ] thought they were going
| to fight. Now it seems they have no
notion of fighting Ohcar, hear. and
laughter). They are only going TO
pledge themselves to turn Sim Fencrs
: Qan1htcO. They are going to turn in
to Ulster Sim Feiners. We'll. am not
very much alarmed by that pledge
that great covenant! What | want to
ask is this: What is Ulster? (hear
the day. Why, surely, there are thou
| sands of Ulster men around this plat
I, form today that are greatly puzzled TO
know what is Ulster 0lenr, henr), and
l am not at all sure that If they had
an Ulster Parliament tomorrow the
first resolution would not be to join
Home Rule (checrs) SO accordingly
they have started Il new idcn--a new
geography. You must learn your geog :
raphy all over again. Some of you are
a little old to so back to school, but
to school You Will have to go Oaugh-
] teri.
I There are Il million Of inhabitants
in the four counties and within them
there arc. roughly speaking, 300, 900
Catholic and 100000 non Catholics. 7:
;; I put $4,000 of the nom Catholics as
Home Rulers, that gives $4,000 Ma
tionalists and $4,000 anti -Nationalists,
a majority Of barely two to one in this
homogeneous community.
4! How about the rest of Ireland? II
you exclude those four counties from
the rest Of Ireland, the Nationalists
u are eight to one, and If these men in
the new Ulster are entitled to have
their way, are we not entitled to have
our way? (cheers). Yes, and we will
have our way (grent chcering). They
ant" they are going to sign. First, they
were going to swear an oath. Now
> they are afraid Of the oath. for possi-
bly, clergymen objected to that They
thought ii Il little irrcvcrent Now
they are going to sign a document
Sure. we could sign Il document TO-
morrow If we liked saying we would
not accept the Union, and If the spill-
ing of ink would settle the matter we
would spill a great deal more than
they would ever spill Oau5htcr).
They will have to do a great deal
more than signing Il document when
they are going to overcome the will
of Ireland. (hear, hear). ireland has
overcome many obstacles far more
formidable in the course of this battle
than ever the so-calIed men of Uiste,
can offer us today (chcers).
What do you propose to say ,on the
t stump"
5 Il think I'll stick to the American
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