Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-13
THREE MEASURES
MAY BECOME LAW
EXPECTED RIB THIS MoNYu
WILL SEE USAGE THROUGH.
House OF COMMONS THREE
CONTROVERSIAL MEASURES.
DESPITE ANY~iING TIE IIOl~E
VfLORDS MAYED. THIS MEASUhF
OF CREATES INTEREST VIA
BECOME \ lSW THIS MONTH X
Be As It'd Press.)


London. May This month pre-
ably will see the .aSsage through tie
House Of Comm 4 of three greaI ctsl
trovcrsial measu T. Home Rule for Ig.-
land; Disestablisf cnt of the Welsh
Church and the 5slition of plural !, e.
ing. The first tn will have been ~,
Ell for the ihir3 inc under the Pir-
lament Act. ana no matter what o..
House 1T Lords e with them they usiis
become law Thx plural voting i6li
still has another. zinc To- pass thrOugh
the House Of Cu3Snons.
Oh course tiis tgroxltrSt Interest \
taken in the Ifrsnc Rule lsill. Thee
has been much istl of compromise aad
settlement by consent. but the best III
formed opinion ~ the country is that
nothing IN this erection will b. desc
~ the House of asnmons. and any set,
Element mus 81 cached when the I'll
is before the Lorf
The Nationalif and lister unicl-
lists have siatedF shcir demands qu.sr
plainly aud tlcr seems no room fpr
compromise bet, zen thcin. The "a.
tioralists have agreed 10 the temporf =.
exclusion Of list r from the operation
OF the bill. Will ne Ilstermcu dcmati
permanent exclusion. Neither side a..
parcntly will re, de. although MAJ a.
alists have been teard Ia say that p"f-
haps There will H. "A little more 'rs-
ccssion to save Che face Of the Uls,-r
leaders; hut 40 exclusion Ii va
thought Mr.. Ba four. who knows fis
Ireland well. wosld he the man To iai
common ground IN which the opposing
leaders could - ct. hut his speech at
the Hyde Park demonstration in which
he spoke against compromise. has ruled
him out. aud settled by consent.
There has bee. talk Of 4 Fedora sys.
tenn for the wh4e Of the United King
dom. and it haf been suggested that
Ulster should b. excluded from The
Home Rude bin until this system is in<
angnrated. when she could chose th.1
state which she would join. The fed
cral system. however, has many ~influen-t
tial opponents and as for Ulster IT.
raises another difficulty. Many If the
great Belfast merchants do the bulk OF
their business with the people of the
soGth and west of Ireland. These mcr.
chants are opposed To Home Rule, bat
say IL Home Rule must come they do
Rst want their Tr%ovince excluded. The
bankers of Belfast take tbe same view.
Here Is the opinion of a wealthy Bel
fast business man.
Sir Edward Carson's demand for the
complete and unconditional exclusion
Of Ulster need not he taken seriously.
We all know shat the Nationalist
would never think of accepting such u
proposal. We know quite rs well that
IT would he impracticahlc If it possibly
could be accepted. No IL can tell bet
ter than myself how closely the inter
esis of this province are bound up with
those of the rest of ireland. Four com
mercial travellers from my house are
almost continually in the south ami
west. Within thc past week we have
received orders for new seasons goods
FROM Cork, Limerick. Clonmcl. Roscrca.
and Sligo, reaching $4,000. \ very
slight eurtailinent of suck a trade
would mean all the difference between :
4 good profit and "A loss. leading to
ban kruptev. The people of tho South +.
AMI Vest arc great consumers. | should :
think that the volume Of business be- :
tween the Nationalist parts of the coun- !
try and Belfast alone has auadruplcd q
within the last fifteen wears Quite f,
apart from politics. tho bitterness that /,
would inevitably arise were Ulster or
any part of N cut off from Ireland !
would result IN the destruction of the 7
biggest warehouses We have i'm n year 1
o4 course. | should vote against u Home 4
Rule candidate. but | should vote and /,
canvass AGAINST the separation of til e
ster: and especially of Belfast. from Ire )
laIyt Tor a moment. +,