The Irish standard., 1913-09-20
COVENANT WEEK
IN ULSTER
Carson Tries to Unite Forces-Asks
for Special Church
Service.
Unionists Declare That Separation
Bill Means Civil
War.
Orange General Laws Vigorous
Against Catholics and Those
Married to Catholics,

Carson as King during Covenant
week in Ulster reviewing his
troops, armed with wooden guns, and
taking the Royal salute, caused no end
of merriment in Great Britain, and
did much to overwhelm with ridicule
the whole Of ''Ulster's" resistance to
Home Rule. Carson goes to Ulster"
again this July, and Truth" makes all
England laugh at his affectation of
the airs of a copspirator, and his fail
ure to get anybody to credit him with
criminal intentions. The merriment
has scarcely ceased when the porten-
tous announcement in the Unionist
Press that Sir Edward Carson has
been lunching with the German En-
peror comes as a godsend to the gos-
sips and the cartoonists in the height
Of the silly season. Frank Holland,
one Of the cleverest and most popular
black-and-white artists Of the day,
hits off the situation admirably in the
current issue of "Reynolds's Newspa-
per-" where King Carson, with crown
on his head presents ulster war
plans to the Kaiser, saying: "As a
brother warlord, William, should like
70 have your adviae about my, war
plans tof Ulster, :, II The crowned
Kaiser, who is smoking a pipe Of
peace and who takes up quite
stand ofrish attitude. replies: "well,
I should advise you to consult King
George. he might lend you a few good
Irish regiments" Do what he will,
Carson cannot induce the British pub
lie to take him seriously.
Every Home Ruler in Ireland knows
perfectly well that the vaunted "loy-
atty" Of the ascendancy party is the
greatest fraud and humbug in exist
ence. The ulster ascendancy party
is loyal only to itself. 1t has always
been loyal" to England when Eng
land was helping it to keep its feet on
the necks of the Papishes and the Dis
senters. It has always been disloyal
to England when England's Parlia-
ment proposed any law in the direc-
tion of admitting any large section Of
the Irish people to the benefit Of the
British Constitution. It LIS not, there
fore, surprising, but quite according
to precedent, to find Ulster "loyalists"
mouthing and scribbling treason and
contempt for the Crown now. Just as
their forefathers did at the passing of
Catholic Emancipation and the discs
tablishment Of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in Ireland. Plenty Of
simple Orangemen believed in 1885
that Colonel Saunderson, M. p, the
Orange leader, would. If the Home
Rule bill were passed, bring over q
German army to defend "Ulster." And,
no doubt, plenty of the simple. ignor-
ant. uneducated folk imagine now
that Sir Edward Carson has made
ulster" all right with Germany. The
other day we had Mr.. Arnold White,
a former Liberal-Unionist candidate
for North Derry, and now rabid
Unionist. writing in the London Daily
Express to this effect:
IF the King signs the Separation
bill he presses the button for civil
war;"
This is Enthusiastically offensive,
coming from a man who, in the same
article. describes Home Rule as "forc-
ing Irish Protestants into civil war
by handing them over to Roman
priests and New York atheists" But
1t is not q bit worse than Mr.. James
Chambers, M. p. expressing his SOL
emn and confident belief that the King
would not put his name to ''such an
iniquitous BILL" than the insults and
yelled threats to the King which have
been uttered on more than one Orange
platform recently. The climax Of
abuse Of the King is probably reached
in IAN Open Letter" to Mr.. Asquith,
the Premier, which is published in the
Coleraine Northern Constitution, and
which the ever-vigilant Irish News
has rescued from oblivion. Here is a
sample Of this "loyal" effusion:
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