Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03

land-the famous Scotch-IriSh that
have given so many great men 10
American history. 1t is different
from the remainder of Ireland in many
ways. Ulster never felt the effects
of the iniquitous land laws, the edu
cational laws and absentee landlord
ism as did the remainder of Ireland
There We're none of those terrible
evictions in Ulster. The tenants had
a right to set up claims of their own
AS they never had in the rest of Ire
land. This right-universally known
as the Ulster right-relieved the peo-
pie of much Of the hardships and op-
pressions, of the remainder of Ireland.
listers people are mostly engaged
in manufacturing, because Ulster is
the great manufacturing section of
the country. And when England
cruelty killed off Irish manufacture
and industry in the early days of the
century, Ulster was less hurt than
either of the other provinces, because
Ulster had manufactures that did not
compete with England. And Ulster
is largely protestant in its religion
But remember that Robert Emmett,
Wolf Tone, Stephen Grattan and
Charles Stewart Parncll-all of them
Irish patriots, all of them sacred
names on the list of Irish heroes
were all of them protestants.
The Unionists are opposed to Home
Rule, first and foremost, because it
will near the elimination of the Union
list party from Irish political life.
While they might continue to control
the county local government boards
in some parts of Ulster, they cannot
hope to exercise much of an influence
Ill the Irish parliament that is to be
organized. They will be real minor
ity in the management of national
irish affairs, whereas they have been
all along the controllers of the des-
TIMES of the people, despite their small
numbers.
They oppose home rule on the
ground that it will hurt Ireland fl
nancially. They point out the fact
that a large part of the prosperity
of Ireland today-and Ireland is one
Of the most prosperous sections of the
globe today-is due to the credit and
&inancial assistance obtained from the
treasury of the empire through the
imperial parliament in London. They
claim, with much justice, that the tax
payers of Ireland, already bearing
heavy burden, cannot expect to be
able to carry on the government in
the way it has been carried on.
Lastly, they claim that home rule
is but step toward national inde-
pendence and they do not want nation
al independence. They do not want
Free Ireland. They believe that the
best interests of Ireland lie in being
closely knit part of the United King
dom.
That is the situation in a nutshell.
/ The Ulster Unionists intend to have
British nomination and influence in
all their doings-even if they have to
fight the whole British army to get
it.
OF course, it would be simple mat
ter for England to put down the Uls-
ter rebels in case there is anything
like a rebellion started. A warship
anchored off Belfast would effectu-
ally block that harbor and result il
the absolute paralyzation of all busi-
ness in Ulster. The mail from all the
world would be stopped, also the tele-
graph; no customs could be collected
1t would be simple. And it is prob
ably because of it's simplicity that
England has paid no attention to the
vehement utterances of Sir Edward
Carson and his followers-the same
kind Of talk, by the way, which result
ed in the hanging of Robert Emmett
as rebel