Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-09-28
Says CarsOn's, Ulster Campaign
Will Prove to BE
Boomerang.
Home Rule Gains Despite All
Attacks and Regarded
Settled.
Threat to Stop Industry i'm Bel
fast Resented by English
men.
STIRS UP The TRADES UNIONS

The approach of the momentum!
autumn session of Parliament al
ready begins to throw shadows be
fore It, but the end of the vacation
has not been reached, and a majority
of the Ministers still remain absent
from London, cables T. p. O'Connor
NJ. P. This pause in active political
warfare gave the Orangemen the sd.
vantage of being able to concentrate
the public attention on their perform
ances in Ulster. The Tory papers
gave considerable space to the demon
STATIONS, and Sir Edward Carsons
anti-home rule speeches are reported
in full. In the meantime the Liberal
papers publish accounts of the addi-
tional acts of fierce persecution by
the Orange hooligans in Belfast, and
this rough translation of Carson's in
elements to rebellion into murderous
assaults has damaged the Orange
campaign.
The trade unions in England are
especially revolted, as the expulsion
of Englishmen who are Liberals from
all work in Belfast and the threat
ened closing of Harland & VOLTS
gigantic shipyards may throw a crush
ing burden on their funds, which all
ready are much depleted ~ the big
strikes this year. On the whole,
find that Carson's performance has
created little excitement in England,
and home rule now IL regarded by
the Englishman in the street as a
settled controversy, and his threats
of a hypothetical future rebellion are
regarded with apathy and scarcely
even with attention.
Winston Churchill's unfortunate
starting of a new political scare by
suggesting Parliamehts for York
shire and Lancashire HAS done some
harm. This harm res ans, first, be-
cause such "a. hreaki4s.1ns@, English
unity alarms the public opinion and.
secondly, because many people sec in
1t the suggestion that Churchill con-
templates separate treatment for
Ulster as a way out of the present
difficulty in the home rule problem.
I have reason to feel certain that
Churchill spoke only for himself, and
the Irish Nationalist certainly will
give no countenance to a breakup OF
the national unity in Ireland and the
of the National minor
ity in Belfast to such tender mercies
as were recently dealt out to them
by the Belfast hooligans with the
tacit approval of the Orange leaders.
It is also remarked that Carson was
not accompanied in his campaign by
any of the prominent English Tory
leaders.
The Laborites are ardent support
ers of the home rule bill to a man
and they have a strong party interest
in the other Ministerial measure for
the reforming of the voting laws;
and above all they hate, more than
any other class, the iniquities OF the
plural voting system. The attacks
on the insurance act by the Tories
and the INSCRIPTIONS use of the
popular prejudice, especially among
The workingmen, by the Tory cleo
.ioneers has begun 10 produce some
even among the Tories. The
chief objection among the working
men to the act is to the contributory
principle, and the advanced Socialists
proclaim that this principle should
be expunged and that all the expenses
Of the insurance system should be
paid by the State and the employer.
Many OF the Tories are beginning
10 fight shy of the present mild cam
paign against the act and already
some OF the Tory papers have begun
10 utter words of warning against the
violence of their own friends. Fur
her damage was done to the anti-in-
surance campaign by the publication
Of a secret circular by the Orange
which calls for a cam
Daign against the insurance act in
Belfast as a better weapon against
home rule than attacks on the home
rule bill itself.
This candid confession on the one
side OF the inscriptions lodges
against the insurance bill, and on the
other of the indifference Of English
opinion OF listers screams against
he home rule bill, help further TO
discount both campaigns. On the
whole we approach the autumn SEES
sion with firm faith IN the power OF
me Government 10 maintain in united
action the different sections of the
present coalition and therefore we
nave full faith I'm the power OF the
Government to force through home
'ule and the other measures pro-
oosed. But though the end OF the
light Is certain. II will be stiff and
and doubtless will be inter
'upted now and then by an attempt
n the hotter headed Orangemen TO
'educe the Imperial Parliament In
England TO the same level as the
isticuff and tin whistle Parliament OF
hungary, but We do not mind these