New Britain herald., 1918-01-22
SIR EDWARD CARSON
 OUT OF MINISTRY
Bitter Foe of Irish Home Rule
 Resigns From Cabinet

London, Jan 22.-Sid Edward Car
 son, minister without portfolio in the
 war cabinet. has resigned. This an
 nouncement was made officially last
 night.
 The prime minister has advised the
 king to accept Sir Edwards reslgna-
 tion.
 The correspondence published
 shows that Sir Edwards action was
 in relation to the Irish question, and
 had nothing to do with the conduct
 of the war.
 When Sir Eric Geddes. formerly
 controller of the British navy, a rail- road man with four year of experience of railroading in the United States, was made first lord of the admiralty last July, superseding Sir EdWafo Carson, 1t was said by the Unlonls' press that the latter, who is a Duohn University member in the house must be provided for" So Sir Ed ward was first made a minister With out portfolio and then in August chairman of the British War Al11lS committee.
 Both the Unionist and Liberal press acknowledged that Sir Edward had a his periodical threats to resign had heen disuuieting to the government l Eorally disquieting, the Liberal press has since asserted, have been his nu- nerous speeches and interviews, Tn which he has undertaken to reflect the opinions of his colleagues. III his recent utterances he has catesor- ically stated that he placed no 1alth
 in the hoped for league of nations which was to mako war impossible His resignation takes out of the cabinet one of the most uncompromls- ing opponents of Home Rule for lre- land. For years Sir Edward has op- posed the setting up of an lrlsn parliament, and prior to the out break of the present war, when the Irish question was at its helght, ne even went to the extent of organizing and training the Ulster Volunteers TOT ! civil war against the British govern l lnent if Home Rule, which would em- brace the Province of Ulster, was put ] into operation. Less than month l before Great Britain entered the war ] Sir Edward presided over the 'Pro- ! visional Government of Ireland' at l Belfast and in a speech declared that l the time had come for the Loyalists l of Ulster to translate their words into 1 action. Ulster, he said, was anxious l for peace. but was not going to accept 1 a peace with surrender.
 Then came the world war, and Sir 1 Edward almost immediately an nounced that the Ulster Volunteers i were ready for service under the flag ] of Great Britain against the enemy. 1 Many of the Ulsterites were among, 1 the first of the British forces to cross 1 the Channel and give battle to the 1 Germans.
 Just before Fir Edward left the 1 admiralty, the Irish convention began 1 deliberations As the representative l of Ulster aspirations he had expected an appointment to the convention. l The Liberal majority, however, is said 1 to have intimated to the government 1 that he would be safer with cabinet 1 post.
 | Just what the convention has so 1 far accomplished is not known, with 1 it's many adiournme ents and few work 1 ing days, but Sir Horace Plunkett re. 1 gently said that it was passing to it's 1 last and most important stage, with ! a constitution which would fulfill it's l purpose.'
 It may be that Sir Edward has ] now resigned because Sir Horaces l purpose is not his and because hs l thinks that he can best serve Ulster 1 on the floor of the house of com [ mons or because his recent utterances
 on war aims have caused friction in
 the secret sessions of the government
 or for all these reasons. Before his appointment to the Ad- l miralty in December. 1910, Sir Ed 1 ward had been solicitor general for 1 Ireland on two occasions; he was at' r torney general in the Asquith war 1 government from which he resigned l on account of the Gallipoli fiasco. He l was born in 1854 and made a Benchef l of the Middle Temple in 1900.