The Washington herald., 1920-04-01
Sir Edward Declares Scot
land Yard Notified Him
Six Men Had LeftAmerica
To Murder Him-Votes
For New Bill Under Pro-
test, Because He Consid-
ers 1t Lesser of Two Evils.
Lloyd George Rouses Ma
tionalists to Fury by SaE-
casm.

London. England, March 31.-The
Irish Home Rule bill has passed.
Following brief. but bitter debate.
in which Lloyd George stirred Irish
Nationalists TO wild fury by shafts
Of sarcasm, the house OF commons
passed the measure, 34s to "a.
Practically all the Irishmen voting
for the bill declared they were
against it. but accepted its terms
rather than the alternative of re-
verting| automatically. to cx-Pre-
mier Asquith's bill of 1914.
Sir Edward Carson, idol Of Ulster,
and six years ago center of opposi-
ton to a Home Rule fight, which
for time threatened to make Ire
land field of blood. was one OF
those who voted for the new Home
Rule bill. under protest" because
he considered it "the lesser Of two
evils"
Lays Crimes 10 America.
And then Carson delivered a
bombshell. He declared the scores
Of murders and assaults which have
recently made Ireland a terror home
to be the work of "men from Amer
lea"
He also declared that he himself
was marked man; that word had
gone forth that he was to be inur-
dered. and that his murder, too,
would be committed by men from
the United States.
Il have been informed by Scot
land Yard" he said. that six men
have left America to assassinate
me"
Standing grim and erect, the W.
ster lie lder made his charges slowly,
and with emphasis, while the gall
leries rocked with excitement.
There has been a long hue ana
cry about crime in Ireland" he be-
gan. The assassinations arc not
the work of my countrymen (Hear!
HearD but that of men from Amer
lea tHear! HearD, who come over
to Ireland to carry on the propa-
ganda going on in America, and
which the British people never take
the slightest trouble to answer
(Hear! HearD
NationaIists Unmeyed.
His statement that he himself
had been marked for death caused
a sensation among the members
surrounding him, but failed to pro-
duce any perceptibIe movement, or
even excitement on the government
bench, or among the NationaIists.
Carson delivered a typical slash
ing speech against the bill. declar-
ing it probably was the last
speech against home rule I'll make"
The bill is fraught with danger
to Ireland and England" he SAID.
In the face of the announcements
by the vast bulk of the Irish peo-
pie that they will have nothing bnf
an independent republic. isn't IL
idle and ridiculous to be trying 81
formulate something halfway, whfeh
will offend your friends. and win
not conciliate a single one of thsSe
seeking separation"
Tnke. shot at President.
Carson took a shot at President
Wilson, declaring making the
means making it safe for hypoc-
ricy."
He closed with the old slogan.
All Ulster wants is to be let
alone" and complained that all the
thanks his home province got for.
long series of services to the
empire was abuse and maljgnancy."
Opposition votes to the bill were
confined to the Nationalists, Labor
ties and ex~Premier Asquith's3 few
followers. The division followed a
speech by Premier Lloyd George. in
tended largely for American con-
sumption. Toward the end, this