Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-12

home rule while the battle for the main
tenance OF the union is led by the tories,
of the British Romanists. from the Duke
OF Norfoik down. Roughly. it may be
said that home rule is political question
In Britain. q politico-religious question in
southern ireland and religious question,
pure and simple, in Ulster. That is why
Ulster has won sympathy among British
Catholics. and why her pleadings fall
upon deaf ears In Scotland, that mother
Scotland from whom Ulster took her
blood and her Presbyterianism and
tering into a solemn league and cove
nant against what she regards as the en-
enactment of Rome.
Home rule means Rome rule to Ulster.
The FISHERMAN is convinced that his
province. his
Ulsterman's View faith, his in
Of Present Situation. auslrs, -. 80
the Pope by a corrupt British govern
ment that would stop at nothing to Sc
euro the Irish nationalist vote and there
by keep itself in power. He will not lis
ten for fraction Of second to any
suggestion that the other three provinces
Of Ireland want home rule because they
wish to govern themselves He believes
the other Irish want home rule in order
that they may prosecute and exterminate
the Protestants Of North Ireland.
1t is all a plot against Ulster. Ulster
sees 1t in no other light. She hates the
Irish nationalist because he Is Catholic,
She hates the British liberal because he
is in league with the Catholics, and she
distrusts the< English unionist, even with
the British covenant before her eyes, be-
cause English unionists do not also hate
and abjure Catholicism
It is plot against Ulster that three
provinces in four In ireland should be
considered as representing Irish opinion
in tho imperial parliament; it Is q plot
against Ulster that the reconstruction of
the Dublin parliament should be consid-
cred.
Ulstermen say, in their newspapers and
from their platforms, that Ulster has al
ways dominated ireland and that she al
ways will They no longer assert the
Protestant ascendancy' that prevailed
before the days of Catholic emancipation.
but they do assert an economic and So
and naive. This assertion they make
when they assume to speak in the name
Of Ulster land the world has we'll mig h
granted them the right to do SOY for the
fact Is that seventeen of the thirty-one
members Of parliament from Ulster are
nationalists and nearly half of the whole
population is Catholic. The Ulster lead
population when they say ulster will
fight and Ulster will be right
There is one more factor: 1t is loyalty.
The fisherman claims to have more 10y
atty per capita than any other people on
earth. not even excepting his cousin, the
united empire loyalist of Canada He al
ways speaks of his kind as loyal Ul-
stermen.' He protests that the most
heinous crime in the hole criminal cate
CORY Of the plot of home rule is that it
forces out of the British nation the most
loyal subjects the king has in all his far
flung dominions from pine to palm.
Therefore he swears in the name Of
loyalty that he will not obey a certain
law of the par
Ready to Fight lament that
in Name Of the King. rule = h and he
takes up sword and rifle with firm intent
to resist by force the kings officers when
they come to enforce the kings law and
all in the name of loyalty to the king! He
goes even further. and greets with shouts
Of widest joy the tidings that some of the
kings soldiers have refused to obey the
kings orders. and that in the name Of
loyalty to the king!
1t would be most confusing IL it were
not that we are compelled to consider the
ancient fixed idea of the tories that only
the tories may be truly loyal and that a
whig or a liberal government in power is
in truth disloyal to the king. and con-
stitutes a most regrettable but unfortu-