Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-26
Obstetrics PLAN
TORUN PROVINCE
Will Take Over Government
When Home Rule Be-
comes Law.
SIR EDWARD CARSON
SEES DANGER AHEAD
Challenge Against Interference With
Plains Is Hailed
With Cheers.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star
DUBLIN, August Is, 1919
Events will now move rapidly in Ulster
according to a passage in Sir Edward
Carson's speech in West Belfast this
week. He said:
For my part hope. in September, to
call together the whole of the Ulster
| unionist council. and 1 hope we shall sit
| in our own parliament from day to day
| taking all the necessary means by COM
| mittees and other ways, and by gaining
| information throughout the country by
the unionist clubs. We will be sitting
there from day to day until we have alb
| soluteIy completed all our arrangements
for taking over the government of Ulster
| ourselves upon the day that home rule
is put on the statute book.
The Ulster unionist council is a body
| called into being several years ago. and
! includes in its membership representa-
| tives from every loyalist part of Ulster,
| the voice of the farmer, the shipyard
worker and the textile operative being
as frequently heard as the opinion OF the
| peer, the lord lieutenant OF the county
| and the employer Of labor. Sir Edward
| Carson will thus have at his command at
| a moments notice a body of men whose
| influence Is derived from the first-hand
knowledge of the wants and desires OF
| the people Of the province
Sounds Grave Warning.
! Sir Edward uttered a grave warning
regarding the rumors Of a general cleo
ton before the home rule bill became
law. expressing the opinion that such ru-
mors were often spread for the purpose
OF lulling loyalists into false sense of
security. Sir Edward did not think that
such an election would take place. and he
gave unanswerable reasons why the gov
eminent should sink Its differences and
hid it's quarrels until the measure be-
came law.
The statement quoted regarding the
dangerous developments in September
was received with every sign of approval,
and when Sir Edward, after declaring
that it would probably be an illegal pro-
cedure, challenged the government to in
terfere the prolonged cheering told him
that he had every man and woman pres
ent at his back. Proceeding to argue
quoted the opinion of Chief Secretary
Birrell to the effect that land purchase
was more important than home rule-a
frank admission, he said. that the loyal
lists have all along been correct In their
contentious. Obviously. if the imperial
lem of land purchase, it can settle the
lesser reforms which form the bedrock
| of the home rule movement. The reso-
| luton I'VE will not have home rule was
| carried unanimously.
Defiance Is Pledged.
At the second platform. where Lady
Kennedy presided, Sir Edward Carson
also spoke briefly. On the way to the
demonstration Sir Edward stopped for a
few minutes at the rooms of the West
Belfast Anti-Home Rule Association.
| where he received an address of well
come. His reply was short IT." he said.
I'VE do not defeat the home rule bill In
parliament we are going, at all events, to
defeat 1t In Belfast. And we will tell
them very shortly in language that you
will all understand that We won't have
it."
Sir Edward replied to resolution In
which he was thanked for his services to
the cause of the union, and in which those
present pledged themselves to follow
| wherever he led. He said that he was
pleased to find on all sides in Sister men
were preparing for the worst and leaving
fication at the way in which men were
| eschewing amusement and pleasure to
| take up the cause, and spoke Of the i'm
/ proyement in physique and bearing Of the
volunteers.
| Proceeding, Sir Edward said that the
mistake the government was making was
that 1t was confounding the Ulster ques-
ton with political questions. and he was
not sure that even some conservatives did
not make the same mistake. But this
question had nothing to do with politics.
He wanted to ask the government what 1t
thought 1t was going to gain with respect
to the Protestants Of Ireland. and many
Catholics. too BY forcing the home rule !i
bill on them. Let 1t be supposed that III
ster had been coerced and suppressed by
the kings soldiers and sailors. Lord Mac
aulay said one week OF civil war would
put back the hands of the clock in an EN-.
pire for hundred years. AS it was he
(Sir Edward) believed the present agita-
ton had destroyed much of the peace and
prosperity that were growing up in the
kindly friendship Of classes. In a war, he
supposed. the combatants would be the
kings forces against the kings most 10y
al subjects.
Pictures Battle Scene.
"The imagination Of man." he continued
"can hardly strain itself to see two op
posing forces going into battle, each sing
ing God Save the King and each will
eyes to the old union Jack. No; let us pu
that aside. 1t is horrible to think OF al
Ulster man firing on :. soldier, which coult
only happen in the Ulster mans case o.
self-defense. Is 1t less horrible that a sol
der of the king should fire upon one O,
our community. who have ever been hi.
majesty's most faithful subjects. TIL.
day that happened would be the beginning
| Of ha NJ oil tho$ ~,