Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-06

coming now. Which fact ] only men,
ton in order to say that, when all
is considered, the end of July should
see the end Of most of the suspense
Of these anxious days. The Ulster
Unionists have therefore, but a short
time IN which to play all the remain
ing cards in their hands. Accord
ingly, we may expect to see some in
teresting things written the next nine
or ten weeks. They have produced
effects at various important juno
lures in the agitation in the past that
no one need be surprised at any fur
i Their audacity on their part that will
/ bring their cause into the limelight.
| English Tory journals assert that
the provisional government, of which
we have heard SO much in the past
will be actually brought into action
: in the very near future-in fact, as
soon as the home rule bill has got
| its third reading-but for this devel-
/ opment we must, in the words of a
] famous phrase, only wait and see.'
We shall have Sir Edward Carson
amongst US at the end of the month
and then, of course, new energy will
be infused into the volunteers and
their cinematographic friends, And,
by the way, it is stated that Sir Ed
ward, who is a widower of some
twelve months standing, is about to
enter again into the bonds of matri-
mony with the beautiful daughter of
an ex-M. p, not unknown in Amer
! ica-Moreton Freeven. 1t hardly
seems likely that he will, at such
warlike juncture, think of such
! comparatively trifling affair as mar
riage. At any rate, that is the view
of some of his own followers here
| when the marriage topic is mooted.
Three Ships Held.
About the gun-running: It turns
| out that three vessels have been
claimed or confscated on account of
| their connection with the affair. They
are coasting steamers, and are named
! the Inismurray, the Helen Craig and
] the Roma. This fact only leaked out
| in a speech delivered at q political
meeting in England by a Liberal M.
p. a few days ago, and it now seems
| that the claim for and against the
| confscation of these costly ships will
| be fought out in the law courts in
the near future. 1t was an Irish peer.
it is stated, that chartered one of the
| vessels for the historic trip.
One fact has leaked out within the
last weelx-the owners of the stores
and warehouses where the rifles
1 brought into the country on the Larne
occasion have been deposited are any
thing but easy In their minds at hav-
| ing such goods on their premises,
and want to have them distributed
| as quickly as possible and have the
burden taken off their shoulders. But
| the families of the majority of the
volunteers are very unwilling to take
| arms into their homes, and the lead
! ers of the glorious gun-running eX-
| plot are at their wits ends to dis
| cover. a way out of the mess. In one
country district mill owner, who
quite willingly joined in with the en-
| terprise at first, became anxious ABOUT
| the length of time the rifles are left in
| his place and made his complaint ac-
| cordingly. Circulars were then sent
out to the volunteers individually,
ordering them TO call on an appointed
night. and to each of them take
] aWay a rifle of the few hundred
stored on the premises. Less than
dozen of the warriors turned up! Ana
| the mill owner is more anxious than
ever in his mind.
| This Is one of the reasons why the
inland gun-running is Tess extensive
than might be expected But some
few distributions on small scale
| NAV occur. One is chronicied from
the Enniskillen district In today's pa
pers. in which 1t is stated some wv
motor cars took part.
| The Irish National Volunteers are
still increasing with surprising
rapidity. All the nationalist papers in
all the Ulster counties nave columns
devoted to the doings connected WIN
that organization, the Belfast Nation
aIist weekly, the Irish Weekly" CIV
ing five columns to the record of their
work in the current issue. And last
weekend Belfast saw the first parade
of it's Nationalist volunteers. Num-
bering about one thousand they as
sembled at Willowfield. off the Falls
road, and were watched by great
crowd of spectators as they Went
through company drill. They tnen
marched four deep at fairly brisk
rate out of the field to side street,
where they were met by a band or
pipers. The instruments were bedeck-
ed with orange and green and orange
and purple ribbons, and the musicians
were alfred in Irish kits To the ac-
compartment of the Wearing of the
Green" the volunteers, swung on to
the Falls road, and, followed by
small company of their admirers pro-
iceeded to Hannahstown. Subsequent
" thew returned by the same route
TO Smithf1eld, where they were dis
banded. It was purely march OF
the volunteers, and there was no IN
spection. and consequently no
speeches.
Inaction of the Government.
The "raison d'etre" for the National
Volunteers on the North is every
where given as the inaction OF the
government in face of the UnioniSt
gun-running and the doings and the
absolute necessity for the people to
do something towards projecting
themselves. The presence of two sets
of volunteers In the country must
give much food for serious thought to
the aforementioned indeed to the
public in general-and one English
Tory paper has aptly put the new
problem thus--"What will happen II
no home rule peace Is patched up is
a nice problem for the government,
and what is to be done with lreland's
new armies even II peace is establish
ed is almost as difficult a problem,
All the signs >of the times are that
physical force as a national doctrine
has come to be accepted and to sur
vive in Ireland" All this shows that
practically since the Larne AFFAIR,
things have faced toward violent
rather than a peaceful sequel.
An article in the Belfast Nationa-
list daily, the Irish News" created
quite a, sensation in this city yester-
day 1t alleges that the Unionists
have been planning for conflict be-
tween Nationalist and the orange
mob on next Tuesday night. Tnat
night the home rule bill will finally
pass through the House of Commons
The division will be taken on the
third reading and Of course the bill
will be passed by big majority
about eighty-flve or ninety. The Ma
! tionalists, it is expected. would cele-
brate the event in the Belfast streets
the same night and the occasion, the
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