The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-13
GOVERNMENT CAN'T !. PROTECT IRELAND,
 CARSON DECLARES
Every Hamlet and Town In Ulster Stages Some Kind of Celebration of
 Orangemen's Day
Bv Assoclsted Press

Belfast July 12.--The celebration of Orangemen's day had as its great feature
 the customary parade, and. in addition,
 Ulster unionist leader, whose pronounce ment on the present situation in Ireland
 was looked forward to eagerly.
 Sir Edward, as usual in such matters. came up fully to expectations. He mined no words. and the enthusiasm reached a climax when he declared in effect that
 Ireland and that if it could not pro-
 tect Ulster, the volunteers would reor- ganize and Ulster would take matters into it's own hands.
 Every hamlet, village and town in Ul-
 ster had some kind of a celebration. and reports over a wide area tonight ara that all passed quietly. even in London derry. where the two factions are repre- scented as ready to renew the fighting should the military force relax their vigilance.
 NOTHING CONCILIATORY Those people in England who hoped that a conciliatory note might be strucK in this celebration will be sadly disap- pointed There was nothing conciliatory
 about it. from the inscriptions on the banners across the streets denouncing the Sim Fein to Sir Edward Carson's dec- laration that the people of the south . would of their own voliton have to hang those guilty of political murders before Ulster would even consider unity which the sponsors of the home rule bill have
 said they hoped for.
 Sir Edward Carson in his speech charged the British government with failure to govern Ireland He declared that if the British could not handle the situation in south Ireland they should turn the task over to someone who could He warned the government that if 1t did not accept the help Ulster had offered, i've tell you we will take matters into our own hands"
 | Discussing conditions in Ireland, Sir Edward said
 T read daily of the whole govern ment in some places being taken over by the Sim Fein. I read of county councils swearing allegiance to the Irish republic. Well, I want to ask
 what the government is doing with the county councils taking that course. My opinion is that such councils ought to be dissolved. I read daily of the Sim Fein police taking part Tn the government of various towns.
 SHOULD SEEK AID q say if the British government IS unable to deal with these matters, It ought to ask some one else. It is an ignominous thing for loyal sub l jects of the crown to be compelled to | admit the authority of those profess l ing to act in the name of the -called 1 Irish republic. Yet, to my Knowledge, there are men In south and west Ire land who. ostensibly at least. have been
 obliged to throw in their lot with these Sim Feiners in order to save their persons and property from disaster We know well that their one am bition Is to penetrate Ulster and take possession there as they have else where. Do not let us close our eyes to the realities of the situation what ever may be the consequences Never will we enter into negotiations with | the Sim Fein until of their own roli- l tion they have brought to the scaftoid I the men who are giving our country ] throughout the world the reputation or being a country of criminals and as- 1 sassins.'
 I Sir Edward concluded by warning l the government that as 1t had refused 1 ulster's repeatedly proffered help and because of it's inability to protect Ulster against the machinations of the
 Sim Fein. i've will reorganize in our own defense the volunteers who lent i you such splendid help to maintain the empire during the war"
 He added But one thing We won't :
 submit to is that we should be helpless | in the face of our enemies. and we tell i the government that come what will,
 in the last resort, we will rely upon
 ourselves. and under God. we will de-
 fsnd ourselves"