The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-12-03
ULSTER PARLIAMENT NEAR,
DRYS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
Get Busy to Elect Local Parlia-
ment Favorable to Local OPP
ton On License Issue
LONDONDERRY MEETING
Lord Bishop Presents Resolutions
Which are Adopted by
Acclarnation

On November II, the new Govern
ment OF Ireland Bill providing for
self-goyernment for Ireland in two
Parlaments, ono for Ulster and one
for the South and West, passed the
third reading in the British House of
Commons. 1t will undoubtedly pass
the House of Lords. Six counties of
Ulster under the bill arc to have a
Parliament OF their own, and Sir Ed
ward Carson i'll the Commons speak,
ing for Ulster announced that Ulster
would accept the bill and try to
work it.
The temperance forces of Ulster
have already inauguratcd campaign
for the return to the new Ulster Par
lament to be formed of dry members,
that is, members who will work and
vote for local option proposals. The
campaign has been launched assum-
ing that the British Parliament will
pass the bill, which has already been
done so far as the Commons is con-
cerned.
This campaign was formally in
augurated in a great campaign meet
ing at Londonderry on October 6.
The demonstration was conducted
under the auspices of the Ulster Tenn
perance Council.
Among those on the platform were;
The Right Rev DR.. Peacocke, Lord
Bishop OF Derry and Raphoe (presid-
ing); Rev. H. g. Dockrell, d. Phi,
Boston Especial lecturer to the Amer
lean troops in Franco; Rev. T. NJ
Kendrick, NJ. A., Scotland; Rev. John
M'Milan, M. A., B. d., pastor of West
minister Presbyterian church. Atlantic
City, New Jersey; Rev. Prof, Stra-
han, Rev. Professor Paul, Rev. DIR.
M'Granahan, Rev. Canon MacQuaidc,
Rev. David Hay, Rev. w. w, Hutch
inson, Rev. John MCaffrey, Rev w.
7. Macourt, Rev. G.. d. Erskine, SAL
walton Army officers, members of the
local Temperance Council, and leaders
OF the I. O. G.. T.
The Lord Bishop proposed the fol-
lowing resolution:
This public meeting now as
sembled, believing the liquor
traffic to be necessarily produce
tive of lamentablc waste, ineffi-
cheney, immortality, and want and
being satisfied that the abolition
of this traffic would largely di-
minish these evils, and realizing
the inherent injustice of licensing
this traffic in any locality without
the consent of the people whose
needs it is supposed to serve, calls
upon the people of Ulster, in view
of the establishment OF a local
Parliament, to organize their
forces to secure the return to the
new Parliament OF candidates pre-
pared to support local veto bill.
This was passed by reclamation.
But the enthusiastic Ulstermen have
been putting the act into operation in
Belfast even before they have got tho
act or the Parliament to enact the act.
During the recent riots at Belfast 257
licensed grocers and public houses
were disposed of. They were smashed
up, looted and otherwise cleared out.
These public houses were ccnters of
disturbances, and so were summarily
disposed of for this reason. These
PSI public houses are still closed lip,
and a movement is on foot seeking to
reopen them, but the Ulster Tenn
perance Council is now waging a fight
in Belfast seeking to prevent their re-
establishment.