Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-20
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Evening Star Correspondent Vy Describes Unrest North
of Ireland Growing Out of the Home Rule
Legislation.

his own account, and Carson and Bal
four made speeches in reply that
promise to become historic in the
story of the home rule struggle. Bal
four, the fierce antagonist of the Irish
Nationalists for over a generation
practically threw up the sponge. With
tears in his eyes he acknowledged
that home rule could hardly be sue
cessfully fought against any longer,
and that that very fact was to him
a token of the failure of his whole
anti-home rule struggle. Carson spoke
of his being a southern Irishman,
and added that if home rule were
passed for Ireland, including Ulster,
it would have his best prayer for its
success. The Belfast Orapgemen read
those speeches with dismay in their
evening papers, for they were being
sold the same night by shrielSing news
boys in special editions in the
streets until well up to midnight And
the Orangemen of the country dis
tricts-more ignorant and fanatic
than their town brethren. and with
the old motto, I'VE will not have
home rule" burned into their poor
brains by its reiteration from hun
dreds of Unionist platforms-must
really have believed that Carson and
Balfour were unsupported or misrep-
resented in some strange way. Could
they have said those things?
Those were the initiatory eircun-
stances of the present peace period.
But everybody is asking, How long
will ii last? No one can say, for 10
one knows what moment some new
feat of lawlessness or violence might
occur and set all our nerves a-tinSle
again.
At any rate, the peace movement
has saved the skins of the gun-run-
ners, if rumor speaks true. No gov
errment could afford, without due
cause. to overlook this reason. And
it Is said that the connection OF two
NJ. P.'s and several ringleaders with
the affair was being considered by
the cabinet with view to prosecu-
tions. Now, such prosecutions would,
it is felt, endanger the chance Of
peaceful solution and, messieurs, the
gun-runners escape for the moment.
But the peace interval does not
mean less activity for the Ulster vol
The air is full of rumor5 OF
other feats of running 10 be at
tempted; the parades are almost as
FREQUENT as ever ! was Passing
along Royal avenue, the principal
in Belfast, an evening
or two ago, and suddenly the tramp
OF marching men sounded out on the
night air Then some hundred or so
Of volunteers, with bandoliers ana
aaveTsacks strung over their Shout
5ers, and walking four deep, came
along These displays are so COM
mon that the city people take no in
Lerest in them now, but q stranger
beside me, speaking with a pro-
Scotch accent, asked me if
-hese were our volunteers. Yes"
,eplied, pretty swanky-looking, eh?'
He shook his head as much as to in
iicate that he hardly knew what
things were coming to in the coun-
-ry, and said: I'VE across the chan
1el have heard so much of your
ioings here that we are actually com
ng to be afraid that when we arrive
at your Donegal quay here off our
ship that it is to md you all in the
grips of civil war, with guns pouring
put their shot on every side" And
with another shake of his head at the
departing volunteers, he went on his
way.
Effect on Business.
The unsettling effect on business of
all this atmosphere of impending
trouble is very great. Merchants
everywhere are feeling it, and it is
stated that the Unionist leaders are
lot being allowed to forget that fact.
Letters are coming to them from fol-
overs everywhere, making them
aware of the loss that is being sus-
aimed. Indeed, most people are
heartily wishing that the terrible sus-
1ense was at an end. a professional
nan l visited few days since spoke
o me in that strain, and added that,
hough he were no keen politician. he
found one could not open ones mouth
n minded way in any Union
st quarter just now. A commercial
traveller of my acquaintance, in a re-
cent letter, also laments the inter-
ference with trade. He represents an
English house, and found that in the
lorth there was a very sensible dim
mutton in the volume of his business,
which he attributed solely to the dis
location brought about by the politi-
,al tension.
"On Dollys Brae,
On Dolly's Brae,
On Dolly's Brae no more;
And the tune we played
Was Kick the Pope
Right over Dolly's Brae."
This was the refrain I heard ring
ing out in the principal Belfast street
the other evening. 1t is the chorus of
the most common political song sung
by the lower classes of Orangemen,
and I looked around to see whence it
could be coming. A motor cher-a-
banc, crowded with men of the labor
ing classes, and flying a few Union
Jacks, was driving briskly along and
the men were treating the public to
the melody in the height of their
spirits. A meeting described as a
meeting of protest against Home
Rule by Belfast labor had just been
held in the famous Ulster Hall, and
this was a country contingent re-
turning after hearing all the oratory.
As to the meeting itself, many repre-
sentatives Of organized labor bodies
IN the city have already denied its
right to speak for labor in Belfast
and the secretary of the local Trades
and Labor Council has written em-
phaticaHy to that effect. It seems the
labor bodies are just trying their best
to keep the political question out of
their movement, as it would break it
up hopelessly if allowed to intrude.
As indicating the peculiar views held
by some of the less instructed rank
and file, the following gem from a
delegate in the Trades Council on the
matter IS we'll worth reproduction. /
give 1t with the bracketed notes.
showing how it was received by a
Belfast working class audience of the
better sort:
Mr.. Jones said he was not pres
ent at the meeting either, but he
thought those present did repre-
sent trades unionists. He went on
TO say that there were two parties
IN Ireland-one for Home Rule
and the other against. He dared
say very few knew the real diff
ference between the two parties,
but he would tell them if they
wished to know. do you wish
to hear it, he asked. There were