The Irish standard., 1912-08-10
ORANGE CAUSE IS
GIVEN SETBACK
Joseph Devlin Portrays the Acts of
Ruffianism Perpetrated in
Black North.
The Dastardly Conduct of the Fol-
lowers of King William Helps
Home Rule.
Asquith Delivers a Ringing Speech
in Condemnation of
Ulster Riots.

In his London letter to the Chicago
Tribune of Sunday, Aug. 4, Mr.. L. p.
O'Connor says:
This has been great week, espe-
clally for Home Rule. The brutal
outburst of Orange bigotry at Bel
fast, involving the manning of nearly
100 men and some women and the re-
| duction to starvation from want Of
work of 1000, at last so excited opin-
Ion in England as we'll as Ireland that
Orangemen in the House of Commons
began to perceive the irreparable in
jury to their cause.
Fortunately Bonar Law, who re-
mains narrow Ulster Orangeman
through his Orange father, though
born in Canada, made speech IN
Saturday of last week which repeated
previous indictments Of civil war in
Ulster and Carson spoke even more
violently, and these harangues, COM
Ing in the midst of the ferocious out
burst of bigotry in Belfast, fixed the
responsibility on Tory leaders for this
bloodshed.
The Orange difficulty was increased
by the fact that Workmen assaulted
were Professionals.
I Liberal opinions, as we'll as Gath
olic, were that many of these we're
Englishmen and had to leave Belfast
to seek work and safety in England,
and that English trades unions had
to subscribe out of their funds de-
pleted by the recent labor unrest to
keep these men alive.
Joseph Devlin found the situation
splendidly prepared. When he rose
on Wednesday to bring the Belfast
horrors before the House of Commons
everybody shuddered as Deylin re-
cited tale after tale of hideous bru-
| tally. including one attempt to burn
a man alive. The most remarkable
effect, however, was the subdued air
of the Tories including those who mad
melted such bloodshed, for every one
condemned the acts of the Orange
rowdies and even approved Birrelrs
flooding Belfast with soldiers and
police to put down such atrocities by
force
Thus the singular spectacle was
presented of Orangemen one day in
citing dupes to riot and the next day
approving their being shot down, il
necessary, by bullets of soldiers ana
police
Just as the debate was closing a
remarkable incident took place.
Redmond challenged Bonar Law to
answer for his words the previous
week. Ronar Law was foolish enough
to rise to the bait and he repeated his
outrageous appeals for civil war Of
| the previous week. This in turn pro-
voked the Liberals in return.
Asquith, who was absent from tie
House, was sent for hurriedly: he en-
tered leisurely after Law had spoken
for several minutes, and then rising
delivered an impromptu speech Of
such powerful invective that the Lib
erals and Irish checred themselves
hoarse. All the critics described the
speech as the greatest in Asquith's
life.
Ramsay Macdonald, speaking for
the Labor party, expressed an equally
severe condemnation of the Orange
outrages and brought out the facts as
to the relief Of the expelled English
men by the English trades unions.
The universal impression is that
this premature outburst of Orange
brutality gives a quietus to long
campaign of Orange oratory designed
to produce bloodshed in Ulster. The
Tories announce another campaign for
September in Ulster. in an attempt
to revive the dying embers Of reli-
gious bigotry.
The week wound up with an all
night sitting forced by the Tories to
exhaust the Liberals, and with an at
tempt early on Friday morning to
| get another snap division and defeat
! the government.
J Both attempts failed. and the week
ends with the Liberals moro full o