Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-12-06
UniOnist Appeal For Early EIec-
ton Said to BE Only
Sham.
Government i'm Position to
Carry Through Entire
Programme.
UNIONISTS CHANCES ARE slim

The Irish home rule political situ-
alton has undergone no change. and
there is not likely to be any. for it
can not be imagined that Asquith
could ever be mean enough to give
in to the clamor of the Unionists
for another general election, cables
Philip Everett. There is of course
not the slightest reasons why he
should do so, with the Government
in position of carrying through it's
entire political programme without
the possibility of hitch, but if he
did, and dissolved Parliament as
socn as Lloyd Georges new land
reform has been properly put be-
fore and grasped by the masses of
the people, no pen would be able to
describe the CONSERVATION that
would arise within the Unionist
party, which has absolutely nothing
to place before the people in the
way II a programme, except resist
ance 10 home rule, which is rather a
negative one.
The results of such an election
would not matter much to the Union
lists. If they were defeated they
would have to submit to home rule,
and If they won their position would
be even worse, for their first act
would naturally be to drop the home
rule bill entirely, and in that case
they would themselves have shown
the Irish Nationalists the very thing
to do-prepare to resist the Govern
ment by armed force. Unionists
have had taste before of trying to
rule Ireland when that island is in
a state of rebellion, and they did
not enjoy 1t much, and this time the
rebellion would be open instead of
veiled. Nobody knows better thaxm
the Unionist leaders, howeve =
their chances of getting a m
are very slim until the home
bill has become law and the number
OF Irish representatives at West
minister greatly reduced, and their
continual cry for a general election
Is nothing but a sham, which is
probably the reason why they are
very careful not to promise to
give up their opposition to home
home rule in case the voters should
return a majority of radical mem
bers.
There is no doubt in the minds of
the members of the Government or
of anyone else that the losses of
radical votes at recent by-elections
were due to the fact that while
Larkin, who tried to help the work.
ingmen of Dublin to better their
was arrested for sedition
and sent to prison. Sir Edward
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threats, has never been touched.
Meeting a member of the Govern
ment at the National Liberal Club
the other night, he asked the reason
why no attempt had ever been made
to punish King Carson and received
the following explanation:
'Larkin was sent to prison for in
citing the populace to rebel against
existing authority, while Sir Carson
has only told his followers to make
revolution II the home rule bill
becomes a law, and there is no law
which prohibits any man or any
number of men threatening or or
ganizing opposition to a nonexisting
order of things. But the moment
the home rule bill becomes law the
position of Sir Edward Carson, F. c..
Smith, Capt. Craig and others is
automatically changed. A continu-
ance of their campaign would be-
come high treason and each of
them would be liable to the death
penalty"
That is the view the law Off
GERS of the Crown are obliged to
take when advising the Government
In the present crisis. and when Sir
Edward arouses a storm of applause
from Ulster covenanters and Tory
galleries in England by challenging
the Government to prosecute. him,
he knows very we'll what answer he
has up his sleeve. So far he has
done nothing but ask his followers
to remain faithful to the existing
a most loyal act in the
eyes of the law, which must neces-
sarily deal with fact and not with
Who will now deny
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