Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
Sir Edward Carson Goes to
Belfast, Where First Step
Toward Calling Out Ulster
Volunteers Has Been Taken.
"WALKING ON WINDY
SIDE OF TREASON"
Unionist Leaders Perform
ances May Furnish British
Government Excuse 1t De-
sires for Sinking Solution.
BY r. r. MURDOCH,
Universal Service Special Cores
pondent.

London, Sept. Sir Edward Car
son has gone to Belfast, where he
will at once launch an anti-home
rule campaign in line with his speech
OF September %, 1914, when he said:
When the war is over we shall
call our volunteers together and we
shall repeal the home rule bill. so
far as it concerns us. in 10 min
utes."
The Daily News says the first
step toward calling out the Ulster
volunteers, who threatened revolt in
1914 if home rule included Ulster.
has been taken in the form of the
decision to re-establish the Ulster
clubs. In 1912 these clubs became
automatically battalions of the Ul-
ster volunteer forces north of the
Boyne and now the decree of the
re-establishment of the clubs is re-
garded as the prelude to a general
mobilization order.
To Unfold Plans.
Carson. it is learned, is to TIN
fold his immediate plans at meet
ing of the Ulster unionist council,
which is the central authority of the
Ulster provisional government.
A special dispatch to the Daily
News from Dublin says: ...
There is no doubt that Carson
will display his skill in walking on
the windy side of treason and that,
as usual he can be relied upon to
clamor for the full rigor of the law
against those who initiate his
methods without observing his pre-
cautions.
There is a strange rumor flying
around that the government will de-
cline to be overawed by Carson and
it has threatened, it is said, that the
garrisons in Ulster will be increas-
ed by 10000.
May Furnish Excuse.
ION the other hand, students of
Ulster opinion think that though
Carson is unlikely to spare the coali-
ton government in his speaches, his
performances will furnish it the ex-
cuse it desires for Sinking the solu-
ton of the Irish difficulty.
"Carson's aim is to continue the
existing confusion and chaos and
the governments object is to evade
the necessity of dealing directly with
the Irish problem. There may be
troop concentration in northern
counties, but as long as the Ulster
garrisons are commanded by good
covenanters like Gen. Hacket Balm,
the former chief of staff of the Ul-
ster government, the Carsonites are
not likely to be disturbed"
Carson Makes Address.
: Belfast, Sept. 2.-(By The Asso-
ciated Press.)-Sir Edward Carson,
leader of the Ulster unionists, who
has come to Belfast to open a new
anti-home rule campaign, addressing
the Ulster unionists council today.
declared that, as far as Ireland was
concerned, colonial home rule was
the same thing as the Sim Fein.
and that in this respect the Sim
Fein was perfectly logical because
in reality there was nothing between
union and separation.
Sir Edward challenged the gov
ernment to make an unequivocal dec
laration whether it had anything in
its mind bordering on the Sim Fein.
and if not, to courageously let the
world know that Great Britain
would brook no interference,
whether by agitation in the United
States, on. the continent or else
where.
Self-determination was character
lied by Sir Edward as one of the
most misleading phrases ever ad-
vanced. He asked if the United
States would allow the southerners
self-determination or if Canada
would permit Quebec to have self
determination. !
Declaring that he saw no pros
pect of settlement of the pending
issue with regard to Ireland, Sir
Edward predicted the early collapse
of the coalition government and Il
return to prewar party Doiit.cs.