The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-06-19
ORANGEhEN WILL
RESIST BY ARMS
NO HOME RULE FOR IRELAND
lF THEY CAN PREVENT. III.
ARE PREPARING FOR CIVIL WAR
Nearly q Quarter Of . Million Men
Are Secretly Pledged TO CO
Into Service on Call
Of Leaders. -.

London, June 17.-That England
oday faces bloody civil strife in u
eter can DO longer be denied. The
Orangemen are preparing, just as
quietly, seriously and thoroughly as
Dom Paul did, to "stagger human
jty. IL there has been any doubts
as TO the deadly determination of the
North of Ireland to resist by force of
arms the establishment of Home Rule,
these have been removed by the re-
ports reaching Dublin Castle in the
past few days from its agents in the
disaffected province. 1t has been
definitely established that a well-or-
ganized and well-drilled army of APP
proximately 100000 men has been
formed, the members of which are
pledged to obey their officers to the
limit, and that great quantities of
arms and ammunition have been pri-
vately cached in strategic. localities
throuhgout the province. Moreover,
IL Is known that all the machinery
for setting up a provisional govern
ment of Ulsterem in Belfast, to begin
business the day Home Rule goes into
effect, has been secretly prepared by
Sir Edward Carson, the Marques of
y,
and other leaders who constitute the
Inner Circle of the Ulster Unionist
Council. .sa""H'1-'a.. ... ..... 49,.
The facts are so patent that Eng.
land has at last awakened to a reali-
cation that the oft-repeated threat
ulster will fight Is a joke. Umpire
JUDGED investigators who have been
going over the ground recently are
absolutely convinced That the first at
tempt to enforce In Ulster the au-
thority of Dublin parliament will be
the signal for open rebellion. On
September 2s, last, 21S,206 male in
habitants of the northern province
over seventeen years of age affixed
their names to what Is known as the
Ulster Covenant, in which they
pledged themselves ito use all means
that may be found necessary to de-
feat'the present conspiracy to set up
Home Rule In Ireland" and In it they
declared further that lin the event
OF such parliament being forced up
on us We solemnly and mutually
pledge ourselves to refuse to recog.
nize rits authority" Practically all of
these men are now enrolled as mem
bers of the Unionist clubs. which have
been organized throughout the pro-
vince and which are really ill-disguis-
ed recruiting and drilling stations for
the army of Ulster The member,
ship has been steadily increasing
since the passage of the Home Rule
bill by the House of Commons last
January, and new clubs are constant
ly being formed. In the counties OF
Antrim, Down, Derry, and Tyrone
there are clubs in every village and
small rural district. Even in Done
gal. the most Nationalist county of
Ulster. it is reported that 10000 men
have been enrolled.
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In many OF the clubs five nights a
week are devoted TO drill. and in the
larger communities special service"
sections have been organized of mem
bers available for active duty at a
moments notice. The drilI-masters
are for the most part former soldiers
or sailors of the regular establish
msntS. II Is estimated that Ulster
will be prepared to throw into the
field quarter of a million men,
whose military training will have been
more thorough than even that OF Eng
lands territorial arrny-as, the militia
force is called Nor viii the Ulster
army LACK capable officers. A NUM-
Der OF applications for commissions
have already been received from re-
tired officers OF the British army.