The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-26
O'CONNOR SENDS A REPLY ID RECENT
 ADDRESS OF CARSON
Ulster Leader Had For warded an Address Re- gently to President
 Wilson

London, August 25.--At the request of John Dillon, chairman of the Irish nationalist party, T. P. O'Connor has sent to America a reply to the recent address forwarded to President Wilson by Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster leader and head of the war aims com mittee. Having traversed some of the historical statements contained in the Carson address, MT. O'Connor com plains that while mentioning the al- legged Sim Fein pro-German plots, Sir Edward omits to mention that he and his assistants before the war Tn speecAes and newspapers declared they would prefer the rule of the German Emperor to home rule and that he and his friends were supplied from Germany with 50,000 rifles, which they still hold for the purpose, now as before the war, of making war upon an act of the British Parliament"
 MT O'Connor further charges it was Sir Edward Carsons rebel movement which precipitated the war by creating in the German mind the miscalculation that England would be too embarrassed by the Ulster rebellion to enter the war. MT. OConnor contends that 1t was the action of Carson when holding up home rule and preaching the doc- trine of revolution and accepting a place in the cabinet that transformed Ireland from enthusiastic support Of the war to it's present attitude of sul- len detachment.
 He concludes in these words.
 .tI,, avapnn 1aadipC to paape the formidable figure of Sir Edward Carson stands blocking the way, When Sir Edward Grey tried to persuade Germany to desist from loosing tlse dams that have deluged the world in blood the shadow of Carson pronis- ing distracted and irnpotent Eng land haunted and deranged the Kali ser's Judgement
 "When the British people, in elec- ton after election, signified their de- sire to give Ireland and England peace, Sir Edward Carson blocked the way. When the House of Commons twice carried home rule, Carson blocked the way. When Premier Lloyd George wanted to carry home rule, Carson blocked the way. Every tina 
 seeks to bridge over the gulf between his county and the millions of Irish race in America by statesmanshlp and tact, Carson has blocked the way
 When q greater than these in the person of the President of the United States, the true leader of the worlds democracy today, makes his constant and consistent appeal for the rights and liberties of small nations, Sir Etis ward blocks the way.
 There is a Carson administration in Ireland today. There is. as far as its Irish policy is concerned. u Carson nd sministrntion in Downing street.
 50 long as Carson controls tho whole policy of England in Ireland, it will be as hopeful to expect Ireland to return to her old enthusiasm for Eng lands fight for the worlds freedom as to expect the Czecho- -Sovaks to figlsr for Austria or the Alsatians to fight for Germany. while the spirit of both these countries is embodied in Von Hindenburg and Von Tirpitz."
 The American ambassador to Great Britain August II, was handed an ad- dress for President Wilson, signed by Sir Edward Carson, leader of the Irish unionist party: the lord mayor of Belfast, the president of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, and the heads of various Ulster organizations It was intended as a reply to messase e sent to President Wilson by the DuA- lin Mansion House anti-conscription conference early in July. The address of the Ulsterites said that the state- ment of the anti-conscriptionists was very far from representing the unani- nous opinion of Irishmen and that the signers and their followers felt a keen sense of shame that Ireland had not submitted to conscription. The mes sage ended with an expression of re- Eret that the nationalists refused to end domestic disputes and give their strength to the country against Ger. many.