Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-05-16
IMPORTANT MEASURES PENDING
IN BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS

ground on which the opposing lead
ers could meet, but his speech al
the Hyde Park demonstration, 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 settled by consent.
There has been talk of a federal
system for the whole of the United
Kingdom. and II has been suggested
that Ulster should be excluded from
the home rule bill until this system
Is inaugurated, when she could
chose the state which she would Join.
The federal system, however. has
many influential opponents, and as
for Ulster it raises another difficulty
Many of the great Belfast merchants
do the bulk Of their business with
the people of the south and west OF
Ireland. These merchants are op-
posed to home rule, but say il home
rule must come they DO not want
their province excluded. The bank
ers OF Belfast take the same view.
Here is the opinion Of a wealthy
Belfast business man.
"Sir Edward Carson's demand for
the complete and unconditional ex.
clusion of Ulster need not be taken
seriously. We all know that the
Nationalists would never think of ac-
cepting such a proposal. We know
quite as well that it would be i'm
practicable If 1t possibly could be
accepted. No one can tell better
. than myself how closely the interests
: of this province are bound up with
those of the rest of Ireland Four
commercial travellers from my house
: are almost continually in the south
and west Within the past week we
have received orders for new sea.
: sons goods from Cork Limerick
: Clonmel, Roscrea and Sligo, reaching
$4,000. A very slight curtailment
= of such trade would mean all the
q difference between a good profit and
! a loss, leading to bankruptcy. The
people of the south and west are
great consumers, | should think that
the volume of business between the
j Nationalist parts of the country and
y Belfast alone has quadrupled within
7 the last fifteen years Quite apart
Q from politics, the bitterness that
= would inevitably arise were Ulster
. or any part of it cut off from IRELAND
would result in the destruction of tht
. biggest warehouses we have in Z
0 year OF course, should vote
= against a home rule candidate. but
. should vote and canvass against tn,
. separation Of Ulster, and especial,
9 OF Belfast, from ireland for mo
0 ment."
Q OF course,l II the Unionists agree
to let the bill go through this yea
o the Liberals will consent to a genera
& election. but otherwise the rank ant
. file of the party and the laborites al
. well, will fight to the last to proven
y an appeal to the electors until the,
Q are sure that they do not have t
. fight with the advantage of the pura
D voter, who in the mind Of every Lib
o era must be Unionist An Irisl
q Nationalist leader who probabl!
y knows the minds of the back bencl
y Liberal as well as any man in tn,
y house of commons, said recently:
9 "The only possibility of a genera
5 election is that the unionists fine
q some way of turning the government
. out They thought they would do /
Z over the Ulster question, but tina
q having been turned to the advantag,
! of the government by the cry, Arm!
q against the people, they will nov
z have to look TO some other means o
% defeating Mr.. Asquith's government
q It was thought, and is still believed
g in some quarters, that way will b,
I found by the lords refusing to pass
" the army annual bill which woult
. dissolve the army, but Liberals thinl
4 that the Unionists, after their expert
y ence with the army and Ulster crisis
70 will leave the army strictly alone
= Liberals therefore argue that excep
. for some accident, or Unionist &C
% ceptance of the plural voting bill
"a there win be no election this year
. but that parliament will run its full
q course and be dissolved in 1915.
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