Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-30
FAMOUS ACT WILL Be
INVOKED TO SECURE
lRELAND'S HOME RULE
Parliamentary Measure viii Be
Applied for First Time in Its
Revolutionary Capacity.

lress of the Home Rule bin toward the
statute book, it viii make IFS third
appearance before the House of Lards
on June 3d. 10 is everywhere ac.
cepted as a safe prediction that the
| Lords win reject It with IT'S usual
Overwhelming majority and thereby
bring the famous Parliamentary Act
into play for its first truly revolution
airy part in British History.
Under term of this act Mr.. AsQuith.
the prime minister who IS father of
the present Home Rule scheme. viii
present the bin to the King for his
signature. and with this # win become
law. Unionist leaders have denounced
the action as "ooercing the King" but
no one doubts that the royal assent
win be given. SO far as coercion is
concerned. no one knows what the
Killg Georges personal views. but
the Liberals profess to believe that at
heart ne is one Of themselves.
After the bin itself the Lords win
be called upon TO consider the amend
ing act which will be introduced as
Ia government measure. The present
prospect is that the amending act
viii contain only Mr.. Asquith's FIRST
olive branch of six years exclusion
from the Dublin government for those
counties which choose it by a referen-
dunn
With Home Rule pending Ireland
remains remarkably free from the
fierce enmities and riotous bloodshed
which have been the order Of the day
during former home rule crisies. This.
tranquility Is not due to the strong
hand of the British overnment. but
on the contrary to the Irish people
themselves who have taken control of
affairs into their own hands
The Viceroy of Ireland. Lord Aber-
deem the Right Honorable Augustin
Birrell. the literary celebrity who ifs
Chief Secretary for Ireland. and the
Irish Office in London are mere spec
tators Of events. While they look ON
seemingly helpless, the real power i'm
Ireland Is passing into the hands of
two armed bodies which have no of
fetal status. and which exist ia de-
fance of the law. These armies are
the Ulster Volunteers. composed OF
Ulster protestants which have been
forming for more than a year and
half. and the Nationalist Volunteers
who have been enlisted only a few
months and who have a very strone
organization in Belfast itself, and in
other parts of Ulster. as well as In
the Catholic counties of the South
There has been a startling growth
of the Nationalist political party for
its leaders are the most radical home
rulers who are opposed TO any scheme
for the exclusion of Ulster from tine
projected Irish government Instead
.of enmity toward the Ulster protest
ants it shows a wish for am under
standing with them on a platform for
the control Of Irish affairs Boy Irish
men.
If reports from Belfast are true the
Nationalist members of parliament
have become alarmed by the power of
the army. and are trying to gain con-
troll by swapping it with enlistmeuts
from the membership of the order of
Hibenians
II reports from Belfast are true the
Nationalist members of parliament
have become alarmed by the power
of the army, and are trying 10 gain
control by swapping it with enlist
ments from the membership of the Or
der of Hibernians.
While the Ulster Volunteers, with
more than a years training, form a
very efficient military worce estimated
al $4,000 armed men, their home rule
imitat0rs are yet comparatively
crude body The Covenanters of Ulster
have modern rifles with bayonets, "a
fair supply OF ammunition, and few
gauing guns, their drill and signalling
methods are thorough and mp TO date
and even the regular army admiros
the swifmess with which they can be
distributed several thousand guns
from the nlhustering ship Fanny
before the government realized what
was happening
The drill OF the Home Rulers is yet
that of amateurs by comparison, but
they are working hard, with many
Irishmen who have been non-commis-
stoned officers I'm British regiments as
their trainers Their chief want rs
money. while the Coveuanters have
the richest province IN Ireland behind
them. and large subscriptions from
English sympathizers
Half the Young men of Belfast are
giving up their nights 20 drilling and
Sundays 20 reviews and speechmaking
THE two factions keep strictly 10 their
own sections but when attachments of
opposing forces meet they exchange
salufes with am the formalities OF
hostile armies during a truse.
The common saying rs that only a
spark is needed for a terrible ok
Iplosion The very possibilities of light
ling a spark amid such a powder fac
tor compel the leaders 10 sobrieiy ana
caution