The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-13

London May 13-ThiS month proo- ably will see the passage through the House Of Commons of three great l controversial measures. Home Rule for IreIand disestablishment of the Welsh church and the abolition or I plural voting The first two will have 'been passed for the third time under the Parliament act, and no matter what the House of Lords do with them. they will become law. The pzur~I voting bill still has another time to pass through the House or Commons. taken in the Home Rule bill. There has been much talk of conpromisins and settlement by consent but the best informed opinion of the country is that nothing in this direction wall be done in the House of COmanons and any settlement must be reached when the bill is before the Lords The Nationaiists and Ulster Unfon- isis have stated their demands quite plainly and there seems no room for compronise between them The Ma tionalfsts have agreed to the temper ary exclusion of Ulster from the op- eration Of the bill. while the Ulster men demand permanent exclusion Neither side will apparently recede although Mathematics have been heard to say that perhaps there will be a little more concession to save the face of the Ulster leaders; but no excltsion-'s
 BAIFoUR OUT OF TT.
 It was thought MT. Balfour. who knows his Ireland we'll would be the man to find common ground on which the opposing leaders could meet but his speech at the Hyde Park dernon& stration- in which he spoke against compromise has ruled him out, and now it is for the Lords to find the way out, if the question is to be set-| tied by consent
 There has been talk of a Federal system for the whole of the United Kingdom and 1t has been suggested that Ulster should be excluded from the Home Rule bill until this system is inaugurated, when she could choose the state which she would join. The Federal system, however. has many Influential opponents, and. as for Ul-s Eter, 1t raises another difficulty Many of the great Belfast merchants do the bulk of fteir business with the people of the South and West of 1relandA These merchants are oppos- ed to Home Rule but say if Home Rule must come, they do not want their province excluded. The bankers of Belfast take the same view
 BUSINESS MANS VIEW.
 Here is the opinion of wealthy Belfast bslsiness man:
 Sir Edwar Carson's demand for the complete and unconditiorla.l ex-s ciusfon of Ulster need not be taken seriously We all know that the Ma dona1ists would never think of sac- cspting such proposal. We know quite as well that it would be in1prac- ficHble if it possibly could be accept ed
 No one can tell better than my self how closely the Interests of this province are bound up with those of r.F .fz1 travellers from my house are almost continually in the South and west Within the past week we have re- csf9ed orders for new seasons goods from Cork Idmerick. C1onnel. Ros- crea- and Sligo reaching $55s00O- A very slight curtailment of such trade would mean all the difference be- tween a good profit and a loss, lead ing to bankruptcy.
 sThe people of the South and West are great consumers. I should think that the volume of business between and Belfast alone has quadrup1ed within the last fifteen years. Quite apart from politics the ibittern ess that would inevitably arise were U1- sters or any part of 1t cut off from Ireland would result in the destruc- lion of the biggest warehouses we have in year Of course, I should vote agafnst Home Rule candidate, but T should vote and canvass against the separation Of Ulster, and especially of Belfast, from Ireland for a mo- 1nent-
 PLURAL VOTING BILL.
 Now that the government has safely, weatheret the crisis over the refusal of officers to serve against the Ulster Volunteers. Liberal mem berE of Parliament have returned to their old demand that there shall be n6 general election. until the bilIs te abofish plural voting has become 3 law This bill was passed through the House of Commons last year for the first time but was promptI, thrown out by the Lords. II is being introduced for the second time this year. and. if the Lords repeat theil aetion of last year, 1t will have to be passed in the third session to become law despite their veto.
 4Of course if the Unionists agree t< let tte bill go through this year tho liberals will consent to a genera e1eetfon, but otherwise the rank ana fife of the party and the L4aborite. xsnt an appeal to the electors unti they are sure that they do not have tt fi&ht with the advantage of the plu r4 voter, who in the mind of ever, Liberal must be Unionist Al Irish Nationalist leader, who proba 81F knows the minds of the bacI Eench Liberal as we'll as any man 1T 4ha House of Commons. said recently
 NEW ISSUE SOBEHT
 The only possibility of a genera election is that the Unionists fins some way of turning the government out They thought they would do i over the Ulster question. but tha having been turned to the advantag, of the government by the cry Arm, against the people they will now hay, to look to some other means of de feating Mir Asquith's government