The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-10-03
Carson's Response.

Carson's response to the Premier's
appeal for peace came on Saturday
last, in a speech delivered to his Vol
unteers at Coleraine, in the course of
which he said:
"You and I have been marching
together for two or three years in de-
fence of Ireland against the nefarious
policy of Home Rule. I hated it
when we began; I hated it more as
we went along, and I hate it more at
the present time than I ever hated
it before.
"The Volunteers were brought in
to existence in order that if it be-
came necessary they would resist by
force the imposition of Home Rule.
He maintained the same opinion now
as then, and would go on doing so,
with the absolute certainty that with
them behind him, let the Govern
ment as political party do what it
might, Home Rule would never be
the law of the land"
That is the spirit of the gentlemen
whom the Premier hopes will agree
to settlement of the Home Rule
question by Wednesday next, and be-
tween whom and the Irish nation,
represented by Mr.. John Redmond,
the Cabinet has hesitated to make
it's choice.
Carson's 700.
According to newspaper reports,
some 700 Carsonite Volunteers have
elected to go to the front, and Irish
Times is quite hysterical over the
matter, and calls upon John Red
mond to make the Irish Volunteers
go and do likewise. Now the fact
is that out of some 600 recruits who
Joined at Belfast within the last fort
night, some 400 were Nationalist,
and the recruiting for the front from
Nationalist Ireland is probably ten
times as great as from Unionist Ul-
ster. But the Nationalist do not
advertise. Where are the $4,000
Carsonite volunteers" "as well
equipped as the regular army? And
what has become of the 100 millions
of money which ulster" put on pa
per at the Ulster Hall meeting to
fight the Kings forces with, with the
aid of the Kaiser, Sir Edward Car
sons host and "Ulster's" quondam
hope? There were hundreds of thou
sands of pounds of British Tory mon
ey to equip ulster" to oppose the
law of the land if that law included
Home Rule. What is it that pre-
vents the "army of Ulster" $4,000
strong, earned to the teeth" with
trained nurses" and maxim guns"
from volunteering en- masse for the
front to defend the King and Empire
to which they have rendered such
profuse lip-loyalty? The Carsonite
answers to these questions would be
much more interesting than the re-
iteration of hatred of Home Rule.
Unionists and the Bill.
That the placing of the Home Rule
Bill on the Statute Book would have
the approval of probably the vast
majority of British Unionists is evil
dent from the following extract
from leading article in the London
Daily Telegraph of September End.
The Telegraph is the most powerful
and widely-circulated Unionist penny
paper in Great Britain. It says:
1--WE do not know whether the at
tainment of bisis of settlement be-
tween now and the 9th instant is
possible. It may we'll prove other
wise. Should that unhappily be so,
would not the equities of the situa-
ton be met by an arrangement to
give the Bill passage to the Statute
Book. but to postpone its coming in
to operation until after the end Of
the war. for which time resumption