Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-07
WAR OVER HOME RULE AWAITS QUESTION OF
 AMERICAN SUPPORT
Financial Aid From This Country Is Necessary Before Irish
 NatiOnaIlsts Can Act.

""" fNA"D iA tue hetllemenI or lrn- land tho menace of r litary prepora. tons by tho Ulster and the Homo Rule Volunteers increases. The pres ent tendency emong ta3 volunteers Of the aouh ia lc accept leadership Jv the Nationalist party which Jr.n R' dmol offered them. Thus leo u'rero would De c.ear division of Home Rulers and anti-Home Rul, men into hostile armed camps. The very dangers of a bitter VII war which such rros1eCt present. furnisl e8 the best safeguard for peace
 Correspondents of The Associated Press at Dublin and Belfast have writ ten of the situation from the Nation alist and Ulster points Of view re. spectively. The most interesting de. velopment is the plan. hitherto un- published, of the Orangement under Sir Edward Carson for taking charge of affairs by force if a provisional government is set up, and the fact that the commercial men of Belfast have used their influence in Ulster councils to postpone radical action until a Home Rule parliament has been established in Dublin. The great question which confronts the Nationalist Volunteers is how far their American sympathizers are like ly to come forward with funds for their arms and equipment
 Estimates of the number of the Irish Nationalist Volunteers vary be- tween SO,O0O. which is the Dublin Gas tie figure compiled by the police, and "a QuGrter of a million, which is the estimate given in platform speeches. Careful inquiry shows that there are 5O,O0O in Leinster. which takes the lead, about 45O0O in Ulster (ncrease- ing rapidly, 35.OOO in Munster and 25,- 900 in Connaught
 The difficulty of Cxact estimate arises from the fact that the move ment is not organization from the center Forces have sprung up spon- taneously in every parish and SO far are only loosely connected with tho provisional central body. There has been a complete wiping out of all class distinctions, and the rank and nle include every grade farmers, la- gorers, shop assistants. clerks, doc.
 tors. lawyers, and country gentle men. There is very strong leayen of time-eXpired soldiers-old Counaught Rangers, Dublin Fusillers and Nun. stor Fusillors, and their experience lis proving useful in the driH.
 The chief military commanders are Colonel Maurice Moore. who com manded the Connaught Rangers in the Boer War, and Captain White, a son of the General White, who defended Ladysmith. Recent accessions are Sir Henry Grafton Bellew. a grandson of the great Henry Grattan. who had e. l |perience in the fifth Dragon Guards; and Captain Ballingham, brother of the MarchiOness of Butte, who is at present an aide-de-camp to the Lord l Lieutenant Military experiments however slight, is at a premium, and national student, with little vol unteer training ds commanding as sergeant a squad which includes among the privates, a university pro lessor of law.
 The army has extremely little equip lment and almost no money But the material is excellent and the enthus- 1 Iiasm unbounded MT Redmond's open i association with the movement which removes the difficulty of getting Imovementmoney. The men in charge of the movement are for the most | part unknown and there has been
 much reluctance to provide funds till | the public knows who would spend ithe money and for what
 The central body consists of twen- ty-dve men, of them fifteen are said Ito be Home Rulers in sympathy with
 Mir Redmond but the more active.
 influential and effective spirits are members of the Sim Fein party They
 have few supporters in the country
 and the great bulk of the volunteers are supporters of Redmond Mr. Red .mond offered his cooperation to the Central body if he was allowed to nominate an equal number of men on .it pending the election of the yolm- .teer branches of a central executive. Failing acceptance he will recommend each county to govern itself
 This offer was rejected on @ hastily
 summoned meeting of the executives
 who proposed that each county should Ielect a representative to sit with them
 This has produced strong protest from Professor Kere who says the
 meeting was not properly convened land asks for a full meeting when the members would accept Mr. Rich
 mond's offer Mr. Richmon cannot al- How a movement mainly composed of This supporters to be commanded by
 selfqualihed bofy. of which the most active members are opponents Of his. once the Volunteers members
 can hold their convention Co check am
 executive the matter will settle it-
 self Meantime there may be friction which will be obviaied to a great e1-
 tont by making each county govern its
 own volunteers.