Ulster's opportunity

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Identifikator:: 1878634100

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-276030

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ulster's opportunity

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Unwin

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 35 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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[ 33] Sir Edward Carson, and they had a happy talk on the Terrace. ‘If all Irishmen were like Duffy,” said Carson, at its close, ‘I would gladly consent to Home Rule for Ireland.”” Might not Sir Edward Carson extend to Mr. Redmond the confidence he was willing to repose in the Irish rebel, Sir Gavan Duffy? It is at least encouraging to read that the two leaders now occasionally meet in friendly converse in the Lobbies of the House of Commons. The financial provisions of the existing Home Rule Bill are generally admitted to be defective, but if Mr. Redmond and Sir Edward Carson joined hands they would have no difficulty in securing generous financial provision for Ireland : almost any form of Home Rule to which they both assented would be passed without opposition. The alternative is disaster for both countries. Sedition spreads in Ireland while unthinking Union- ists rejoice in the belief that the power of the Irish Parliamentary Party is undermined. It was the same fatuity that inspired the Unionist exhortation to the National Volunteers, when they were first being enrolled, to repudiate the control of "Mr. Redmond in favour of Sir Roger Casement. Quite recently Lord Midleton exultingly declared that at the next election in Ireland every member of the Irish Party would be rejected by his constituency. The prophecy was absurd ; but assume it to be true : for every repudiated member of the Irish Party a Sinn Feiner would be returned. Is this a prospect to which England or Ireland, Unionist or Home Ruler, can look forward with satisfaction ? i The Unionist Press has been beating the air in its daily appeals to Mr. Redmond and the Irish Party to revive recruiting in Ireland or to accept conscription. It is about time they addressed their appeal to their own Party with whom the remedy lies. The Ulster Unionists have consented to Home Rule for over

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