Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-26
Especial Correspondence of the stare

Iered with. The Nationalists for al
most two years, saw their political
opponents drilling and arming and
actually influencing the government
and the throne by this parade of
1orce. Then they saw it was time
Tor them to show that they had some
small stake in the country-if il
would please English politicians to
remember it-and already they have
made John Bull put on his consid-
erlng cap" and admit that, after all,
there are some few people in ireland
= TO be reckoned with in addition to
the aristocratic clique and their fol-
lowers who arrogate to themselves
the name of Ulster.
In Belfast, during the week lend
Just passed, we have had the two or
CARNATIONS of Irish volunteers-the
Carsonite or Ulster volunteers and
the National volunteers-brought
strikingly into public notice.
Sir Edward Carson spent his Whit
suntide among his troops" and Sat
urday last he spent in this city. He
attended two volunteer gatherings
one at the Balmoral show grounds,
and the other in the West Belfast
district, at a place called Glencairn.
AT the latter assembly the front lines
OF his audience We're volunteers in
uniform, armed with rifles fitted with
bayonets. And, in his best jocular
style, he reminded the warriors that
their arms were some of the fruit of
mat famous gun-running exploit in
which the mystery Ship the Mount
JOY, made such name for herself.
But he did not indicate an eXcep-
t1onally glorious program for the
warriors. They We're to see particu-
fO1n hot
rights from them-only that and
nothing more just now.
"a At the same moment, only some
nve or six hundred yards away, at
Shaun's Park, off the Falls road, Mr.
Zoe Devlin, M. p, was taking part
IN the first general review of the Bel
fast corps of National Volunteers.
had heard that he was to be there
and managed to be present. 1t was
not too easy to gain admittance with
out full credentials, and no photo
graphers were allowed in. That seems
strange, eh? But the reason is plain
Unionist employers. if they saw their
workmen were engaged in the Ma
tionalist movement would instantly
dismiss them. One photograph of a
Nationalist parade appeared and
such was the sequel 1t was taken
70 heart, and while cinemotograph
>rators and knights of the camera
Ssst welcome at the Cnionist dis
plays as aids to advertise their
rgrim, dour eand determined oppo-
sition to that Home Rule against
which their Tory paymasters are SO
fundamentally embattled, their
presence is not at all relished by the
National Volunteers.
1t was an inspiriting display, that
review in Shaun's Park The day
4Swas gloriously fine, and to the south
east from the park spread away
one of the most glorious tracts of
country imaginable, with the June
sunshine Frightening into the fresh
est verdure the inimitable green of
Irish fields. Away in the far dis
tance, softened by a silvery haze
were the mountains of Mourne," the
theme of many a minstrel's song
Here before one was the prospect
that made King William, "of immor-
tai memory" VOW that Ireland was
country we'll worth fighting for, 1t
was in such surroundings the Belfast
National Volunteers held their first
review on June s. A pipers' band,
clad in picturesque kits and with
Red-Hand flag waving in front, play
ed martial tunes the while. "O'Donnell
,Abu'' and "O'Neill's March" and The
Risin' of the Moon were the princi-
pal music, and both onlookers and
volunteers could thrill with the notes
of these old Gaelic airs. When all
was over Joe Devlin, back in amongst
the last company of the Nolun-
teers, took part in one of the
most memorable marches down Falls
road seen for many day.
So much for Belfast, what of the
country? The National Volunteers
are spreading and drilling every
where. And here is a sample of the
speeches at some of those country
volunteer gatherings. Country Coun-
sellor Henry McGrath at Por-
taferry, County Down, at q
could be no doubt as to
the efficiency of the Volunteers as an
argument for Irish freedom, FOR,
though Sarsfield made a mistake in
sailing from Limerick, did the irish
brigade not win Cremona, Fontenoy,
etc; and did the Presbyterians OF
Ulster not win Bunker's Hill and lay
the foundations of the greatest OF
the worlds republics? He proceeded
to trace the history of the Volunteers
of 1882 from the time when the
Sovereign of Belfast said the Irish
Would have to look after their own
trade till Grattan unwisely disbanded
them. England had surrendered to
them; Gladstone had surrendered to
Parnell and the Land League; AS
quith had yielded to the Ulster vol
unteers; but they had come to remedy
Grattan's mistake. The remedy was
in their own. right hands. When
Michael Davitt tried to get arms into
ireland for his fellow countrymen-
and he had something worth fighting
for-he was rewarded with penal
servitude; while Sir Edward Carson
;. could get rifles galore, and still mo-
tored around as free as the winds. So
they must follow in Carson's foot
steps and get rifles somewhere and
somehow. There must be no division.
Ifishmen of all creeds and classes
found a common footing in the ranks
of the irish Volunteers. The whole
welded into one, prepared to uphold
their rights and liberties with their
own right hands, would be invinci-
ble"
There are no people more fiabber-
sasted over this National Volunteers
movement than the English Tory
party. They are beginning to realize
that if the Liberals failed noW-whlch
is quite unlikely-they would come
back into power to face an Ireland
$hat would never submit again to the
Did Dublin Castle rule. The move
ment will stiffen. up the backs of the
Liberal party. in that real clinch in
the whole home rule battle that comes
nearer every day.
Sir Edward Carson sailed away
Prom Belfast quay on Monday, and
his only speech was the orange tag,
mo surrender" But what is the inn
preston left on shrewd onlookers by
: Ms, visit? 1t is this, that Belfast
nnsirIess men are pulling the reins'
ia, sniritc TheV do not