Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-04

tive system for granting self-pov ernment to Ireland, declared tha- to force q union of Ulster an, southern Ireland would "promo4s disunion" and might result i, "bloodshed
 The governmental scheme. an Hnounced by the Premier. conten1 plates the creation of two lepis Native bodies with a council oI Twenty to serve as a link betwaeg llem. In addition, both divis. Ysns would elect members to th; l6litish Parliament until the tires Eshould be ripe for the voluntary Formation of an Irish Parliament Liberal extracts from the Pre-. mier's speech were cablea tf America yesterday. The full text 6of the address gives g cornprshens. Five idea of the position of th, government in the new attempt &to compose the differences be ktween the Irish factions and te Preach 9 satisfactcty solution ot Sthe Irish problem.
 N People Hostile
 There may be advantages ir Sunion," MT. Lloyd George said ir Adiscussing the stand of those oc. Reused of wishing to coerce the HUlsterites. T do not deny that Geo graphically the conditions are 9euch as to make it desirable. There Sis an advantage in mingling races Band religion so as to contribute sa variety of ideas so as to have ya different outlook. And there is Undoubtedly an advantage in hay. Hing industry and agriculture working side by side ia the same parliament. But that is a matter Sfor these populations themselves NLord Durham attempted to force @Quebec and Ontario, Lower ana Ripper Canada, into the same par Aiament. That plan had to bs &bandoned Separate parliaments ahad to be given them and it was pnly after that was done that fed Eeration became possible"
 & The Premier said the Irish fsuestion was difficult because # #'three-quarters of the population 2pf Ireland are not merely govern 8ed without their consent, but man 3fest the bitterest hostility to the Government.
 # q remember" he continued T'when it used to be argued that Hf you improved social and ecoi- pmic conditions, if you got rid ot the agrarian trouble, improved housing, created peasant propri- etorship and built railways, con- etructed harbors and did every thing possible to make Ireland Rs prosperous as conditions would allow, all this objection to British rule would vanish. What has hap pened? Ireland never has been eo prosperous as she is today. The vast majority of the cultivators of Ireland are possessors of their bwn soil. Houses and comfortable Cottages for the working men men have been built at the expense bf thhe British taxpayer. Men who Travelled through Ireland a genera tion ago would not know it to- day. It is completely transfig- bred"
 Oppose Irish Rule.
 Declaring it to be "fundamen- tal fact" despite these conditions Fhat Ireland has never been SC Rlienated from British rule as 1t
 Is today" MT. Lloyd George said there was another fact just as
 undamental-that "you have a Considerable section of the people Pf Ireland who are just as op- posed to the Irish rule as the ma
 ority of Irishmen are to British rule. Both these facts must be taken into account. In the north past of Ireland, you have a popu-
 ation, a fairly solid population, Rlien in race, sympathy, religion,
 tradition, outlook, from the rest Pf the population of Ireland, and
 would be an outrage on the principle of self-government to place them under the rule of the
 emainder of the population. In
 he northeast of Ireland, if that
 were done, you would inevitably elienate the best elements from
 he machinery of law and order.
 don't say it would produce the Same results, but it would recre- Pte exactly the same conditions
 which you are trying to remedy
 In the south and west"
 MT. Lloyd George said the fail pre of the self-government act of
 l914 to deal with "the peculiar position of Ulster" was largely
 he reason for the decision of the
 government to make changes in
 his Home Rule plan. He pre-
 aced the statement with the re-
 mark hat the act of 1914 appear
 I'd to have no friends.
 Quotes Priest.
 In support of his position that
 70 force union of Ireland upon
 Ulster would be unjustifiable, the
 Premier read letter from Fath-
 r O'Flannagan, an Irish Catholic priest, said to be former vice president of then Sim Fein party fand quoted from the words of Father MakDonald, a professor of fheology in Maynnoth College.
 Father O'Flannagan was repre- Eented as having asked i'll 1916:
 II we reject home rule rather
 nan agree to the exclusion of the
 unlonist part of Ulster what case
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