Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-02
ULSTER ISREADY
TO GIVE SOLDIERS
Thousands of Irish Would
Serve Britain Despite
Sim Fein
LOYALTY RULES BELFAST
Anti.Conscriptionists Abound
in North. but Underionc
Supports Government
Special Cable to Ercriug Public Ledger

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Belfast. MAY . ,Dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Chrouiclc1
II should not battle British statesman
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he'i'st thah IN 'uollt' men ot nId HGN'-
lnE age are DONG What we IN the ojhtr
lHahdS nave come I" regard as inc WORK
OF women. They are Justify cleaning Of
hces. strenuously waiting at the table,
heroically serving over the counter and.
when they get leave from these wartime
occupations. they mobilize i'm places Of
entertainmcnt-an imposing army
why is It that in Belfast. compared
with any English or Scottish city Of
smaller size. 50 very far away from the
war and its pcualtics. there arc sim
Feircrs io sueak oro Tho predominant
churches and nrcfop,ir,n, r,Iitiriaps aro
,dyocatee or rcrr,itirg ,rd nvon nr
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tnelr cohtuma'N III speech
Women Could DO work
] say nothing Of shpvards and fac
torres though even IN these II would h'
possible to reIeas" men Tor fEhtnE by
employing more women f'i'f on.E J."
businesses wni'h are hnurSSehtlaI or
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ers Poman CathoIire mr. mo- C;cr,,an ms
undor oil Of which names Tho intrudors
,rouId he cordon,rcd ana buntod
We orten hear of tho el,nII,ar I'm khaki
tho man who nuts on . ,Inifor,, IA nrn-
tect himself from interference yhIIc he
Is doing worl, that any woman might do
Is a man loss TO he despised who averts
the attentions of the recruiting SER
geant from himself hv loud professions
uf military ardor and by dwelling upon
the opposite hut more candid professions
Of the Sim Feiners?
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''''''''"" '"r ''N'eF
lt the Government is wise. IT Will take
the militarsm Of Belfast seriously and
act accordingly, and If Sir Edward Car
son and his party wish to serve the
British Empire in its sore need, they
VIII offer to accept COnscrptOn for
Ulster alone, or. at least, for that part
Of Ulster which claims to be associated
more with Britain than with ireland.
In some districts Of Ulster and prob
ably i'm part all, the hostility Of the
farmers-Unionists as well as National
ists--to conscription is quite as reso.
Lutte as i'm the south but there is con-
siderable Ulster population which could
he economically conscripted without
withdrawing thousands of soldiers from
the western front. without fighting a
solidly opposed community. without en-
tering into a deadly struggle with the
Roman Catholic Church, a population
which, on the other hand, would be called
upon with the appreciation of the rep
resentative leaders of Ulster. of all the
popuIar newsDapcrs and Of all the now
erful cburrhoe