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the House Of Commons, and though
voted down each time in the House
of Lords, viii only have TO be passed
once more before May 8, 1914, to over
come the lords veto and become the
law of the empire without the arIsto-
Gratis consent.
The parliament act of 1911, which
forever destroyed the power of the
lords to hold up measures of reform
by the House of Commons, provides
that any bill passing the House three
times in two years becomes a law.
This made it possible to get a home
rule bill.
This LIS the situation.
The situation today is this
The Nationalist party In Ireland is
a unit for home ruie The Nationalist
party has 81 of the 103 Irish MEM
bers in parliament The other 10 mem
bers from Ireland are Unionists and
are opposed to home rule. They rep
resent the constituencies or practi-
cally one province and of six of the
ten counties of that province-Ulster.
These have a population of about
], 100000. Outside Ulster Ireland has
about 100000 people. The voting in
Ulster has found the Nationalists and
Unionists fighting neck and neck for
seeking the upper hand. At present
the Nationalists have a majority of
one in the Ulster representation in the
House of Commons
Now, what are these two parties
and what do they represent?
Tne Nationalist are the party of
Parnell, John Dillon, John Redmond
and the Irishmen who have been
lighting for two generations for home
rule. Its membership includes men of
every calling. 1t has no religious
leanings, except that vast majority
of the people of Ireland, outside of
Qlr7er, are Catholics. 1t is largely
terminated by an inner organization
known as the United Irish League.
This organization, Professor Kettle,
well-known Nationalist scholar, char
acterized In the following significant
statement:
No Landlords Are ON Its Rolls.
ION its rolls of membership there
are no landlords or ex-landlords,
fewer merchants. fewer Irish manu-
facturers. Bankers who regulate our
finances, the railway or transit men
who control our trade, even the lead
ing cattlemen. who handle most of
our produce, are not to be found IN
it's ranks"
The United Irish League is made up
of the people of Ireland and not from
the privileged class. 1t is because of
this situation that most of the money
for carrying on the home rule cam
paigns in Ireland has had to come
from the outside. and while this party
has been a vast majority in Ireland
ever since the union with England,
Scotland and Wales. it has always
been minority in Parliament. and
has never been able to get the will of
the people enacted into law.
The Unionist party. which is really
an English party and a great power
in English politics. has never had
majority in Ireland and yet. because
It was an English party, though a
minority in Ireland, it has been able
to dictate legislation for that great
island.
The Unionist party is made up of
practically all the people in Ireland
who do not belong to the Nationalist.
Sir Edward Carson is the leader of
the Unionists in Parliament and Bel
fast Is the stronghold of the party.
Belfast ranks fourth among the cities
of England. Scotland and Ireland in
imports and exports and carries on
tremendous business.
Situated in the north of Ireland.
Ulster is the section that was settled
by King James with men from Scot
iand-the famous Scotch-Irish that
have given so many great men to
American history. 1t is different
from the remainder of Ireland in
many ways. Ulster never felt the
effects of the iniquitous land laws,
the educational laws and absentee
landlordism as did the remainder of
| Ireland. There were none of those
| terrible evictions in Ulster. The ten
ants had a right to set up claims of
their own-as they never had IN the
rest of Ireland. This -right-univer-
sally known as the Ulster right-re-
lieyed the people of much of the hard
ships and oppression of the remain
der of Ireland