New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26

London, september 80.
THE battle lines are drawn. Ulster
go, week very solemnly announced her
.s.roe Of Provisional Government in
readiness for open resistance to Dub
-, parliament Her troops are in the
s.d Sir Edward Carson reviewed
1000 of them at Belfast on Thursday
ud.r the command of Lieut.. General
ca George Richardson. The Council Of
co,,rol is appointed The final decla-
..,,on of policy has been made. The
covenant has been reaffirmed. a mill
~, Of money (S5,000,000) for indemni-
.ss is 10 be raised to start with; and
,,srter Of il was pledged within three
S.vs--mostly in subscriptions of $4,000
.sch. Mr.. Bryce, late British Ambas-
,odor in Washington, and before that
chief Secretary for Ireland, thought
the occasion sufficiently interesting TO
~ 10 Belfast as a spectator to spy out
,he land and TO contemplate the review
from a window. All this was but the
FORMAL official declaration of plans and
harnesses which for many months have
h.en maturing for the defence of Prot
estant Ulster. It has. however sur
Aced 10 convince the most incredulous
and even those who pretended TO be
;ncredulous but were not, that Ulster
,s in earnest and that she will submit
II she has TO submit, only TO force. We
NAV be conquered" said Sir Edward
carson. but if we are we will be gov
erned as a conquered people"
During all this time since the proro-
ration Of Parliament, Mr.. Redmond has
been silent On Sunday he spoke, and
his speech. like the voice Of Ulster, was
A battle cry. His lieutenants had told
us they would have nothing 10 do with
Lord Loreburn's Conference, and they
we're supposed 10 speak for Mr.. Red
mond. but nobody knew for certain. But
Mr.. Redmond does more than reject the
proposal for a conference. He sets his
foot upon compromise of any kind. The
only suggestion he offers is one which
Ulster had already rejected-that she
should submit to a Dublin Parliament
with nominal safeguards. For the rest,
his speech breathes defiance, and an
nounces a policy of rule or ruin. He
,peaks not TO Ulster only but TO the
Ministry and to England. 1t is speech
4 Of menace and bitter invective. the
invective is for those Irishmen who do
not submit themselves TO his despotlsm.
The menace is for Ministers. To that
little conclave Of the inner CABINET
lately gathered in the Isle Of Arran he
issues his final orders. The orders are
Full steam ahead with Home Rule.
And the menace is explicit. l will give
II in Mr. Redmond's words
The destruction Of the present Home
Rule Bill would mean the complete
breakdown Of the Parliament Act the
| loss of the Welsh Church Bill. the loss
a, the Plural Voting Bill. the restora-
ZION OF the veto Of the House OF LORDS
and the defeat Of British Democracy
for a generation
In other words, Home Rule or noth-
| ing II YOU don't give us Home Rule
as we understand II, no one OF your
| own measures shall become law. we
| will tear up the Parliament Act Your
1 Bills and your party shall go down 90
l ,s,hsr IN ruin. AS the Act and the
Bills are all mischievous and some Oh
th.n wicked think what benefactor
1 Mr. Redmond might be! 1t is threat
he has mower TO make good, as MT
Asouith well knows. II he has TO meet
Parliament without the support OF his
Irish cohort, his Ministry could not 1--we
DAY. He would have to choose De-
& tween resignation and a Dissolution'
that appeal to the country whlcn ne
breads beyond all other things. With
| the Irish against him he would have no
hope Of a majority in new Parhd-
ment. Everything on which he mas
stsked his political fortunes all me
1 measures his own party care for anu
4 all that unknown scheme Of Lana he
4 form now Matching in the Isle OF Arrah
and elsewhere, would be wrecked. MT.
~ Redmond is the arbiter OF Mr. AS
/ quiths fate and Mr.. Asquith knows II.
To secure the eighty Irish votes in me
4 House Of Commons the Prime Minister
has torn I'D the ancient constitution OF
the Kingdom. substituted the authority
1 Of Parliament for the authority of the
! people. sacrificed their rights and lib
critics to his personal and party inter
ests, and made the King the servant OF
his ambition. All this humiliation ne
will have endured in vain If he Goes
not now. obey the voice of his Master.
NJ. Redmond is nevertheless very
well aware that no English Minister
can travel with light heart the road
leading straight to Civil War, and he
pours out upon Ulster, which has shown
all England that Civil War Is the sure
result Of Mr.. Redmonds tyranny,
stream OF undiluted invective. Not
even Mr.. Lloyd George has even in any
one speech so unpacked his heart with
words Of cursing. An Under-Secretary'
Mr. Robertson. gave the cue last week
in his comments on the Carson circus
and the Ulster Gang" Mr.. Redmond
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