Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1914-03-26
HOME RULE ROW
ON IN IRELAND
Dissentions Of U|ster--A Third
Of Population.

The home rule situation in Ire
land at present is as follows:
Home rule has been passed twice
by the house of commons, and twice
vetoed by the house of lords. It
must lie passed by the present parlia-
ment third time. to overrule the
lords veto.
Ulster has always fought home
rule. But Ulster is not all opposed
to home rule. To show how divid-
ed she is, it has only to be remember
ed that she is represented in the
English parliament today by II un-
ionists and 16 home rulers.
However, while the common people
are about evenly divided, the upper
classes in the province of Ulster are
united against home rule, and they
it is who are leading the proposed re-
bellion. The chief leaders are Sir
Edward Carson, Capt. Craig, the
Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Chas.
Beresford and Lieut.. Gen. Sir George
Richardson, retired.
The home rule bill gives Ulster 18
members in the new Irish parliament
and the rest of Ireland 1O3.
Ulster is the home of the Protes-
tants in Ireland. They fear that the
rest of Ireland will tax them to death
in the Irish parliament. Ever since
the passage of the first home rule
bill two years ago, the movement for
rebellion has been in progress in
Ulster.
Premier Asquith, because of the
strong protest of the north of Ire
land province, offered Ulster conces-
sions.
His plan was to take a referen-
dunn in the nine counties of Ulster on
thet following proposition:
To omit Ulster from the provis-
ions Of the home rule bill for six
years, Ulster to send it's representa-
tives as usual to the English parlia-
ment. At the end of six years Ul-
ster's choice of parliament to be TAX
en- up again.
Sir Edward Carson, representing
the Ulster anti-home rulers, rejected
the offer. The liberal party now pro-
poses to pass the bill as it stood or
iginally-home rule for the whole of
Ireland.
Hence the seriousness of the pres
ent situation. Ulster prepares to
fight, and England retaliates with
strong war preparations.
Third of Ireland Lies in Ulster.
Ulster, in the north of Ireland,
has nine counties with population
of 1,54S,572 out of a total popula-
tion for Ireland of 4,3S1,951. The
largest city is Belfast. The county of
Tyrone, with it's lake region, is the
most picturesque portion Of the part
of Erin that is in revolt.
Shift Regiments.
The first move of the war Office,
when armed resistance to home rule
became a possibility, was to shift the
regiments which had been on duty in
Ulster, and replace them with SOL
diers from Dublin. Friendly rela-
tions established during service caus-
ed number of officers of the Belfast
regiment to resign.
The force of the home regiments
for the United Kingdom numbers
10000 men who could be placed in
Ireland in "a hours. In addition,
there is an army reserve Of $4,000.
11O, 900 Orangemen Drilled for War.
Belfast, March 23.-In preparation
for resistance against home rule, the
Orangemen in Ulster have placed
themselves on a war basis. For a
year they have been raising volun-
teer army, organized by the different
in Ulster. There are 65 ba-
tallions, of which 18 are in Belfast.
They claim an organized force can be
had Of 10000 men, with rifles,most-
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