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BY E -O IN
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1915.
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The New Imperialists of Ulster, like the Old Imperialists, rely on rancour and obscurantism . . They dare nol face the plain facts about the plight of Home _Rule. It came as a stroke. to some of them to find that the Nationalists of Belfast who do. not believe in sharp curving or in trusting their cause to British politicians were able to fill St. Mary's Hall with a confident and undaunted assemblage. "Every man of that audience is a marked man," -said one who was present, " .but no man is now afraid to be a marked ·m an in Belfast. ' '
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splendidly arranged, the Belfast meeting recognition of the Government pledges having be<~n fixed a month in. advance. that "the coercion of Ulster," except the In fact, the cruise of the "Fanny" . anP, Natfonalists of Ulster, "is unthinkable." the adventures of the White Yacht of * * * Howth and Kilcool fade -hencefor.ward . Mr• Lough, M.P., says _that Ireland into insignificance; The keen-eyed New has ho body .t:o speak for her and that _the Imperialists detected my presence in a I-rish people expect to be compensated in motor ca.x iµ Belfast, and t4e· motor car's t.h~ n~xt world_·. Let us hope that Wales extra burden of petrol, _.a t a time when I will 'Q.Ot suffer ' in the next world for imagined I was in DubJin . That was not havi11g in.en, to speak for her and to speak all. They also -made the somewhat late . t9- some . effect "in ·this world. Wales has -discovery that the headquarters for the riq-t··got Hom_e Rule on the Statute Book, supply of petrol -to German submarines, bµJ; ·she. has men to speak for her. The as far back as last autumn, was Carling- . WeJsh Liberals are not an independent ford Loch . . Omeath, you know, is on one pa.rty, ' but they are men with a sense of The Government had side of Carlingford Loch, and th~lrish independen"Qe. :z;nadesimilar pledges t'o them to the College there in August and September was as useful a screen for my terrible in- nl~dges tney mader to Mr. Redmond an,d_ . genuity as St. Mary's HalL "Belfast, wa.s the Irish Party and the Irish electorate . The Government has been allowed to in January. break its Irish pledges to a party and a * * * · While the likes of men ~re allowed to nation, it has not been allo"ed to break · be at large, what possible ~hance is its pledges to a small body of its own there for the cause of liberty, religion, s·u pporters. It was clearly understood anti-militarism, Garibaldi, and small that Welsh Dise~tablishment stood on ·the nationalities? I must offer my intelligent sanie footing as Home Rule and was a New Imperialist friends -in Belfast the .highly contentious measure opposed by same advice that I offered to my friends, the unanimous force of the Unionist the Gold Bricks of Dublin. A.s loyal Party. subjects, they are not doing their duty * * * At the outbreak of the war, and since to the Irish Empire by awful whisperings in private ears of Jingo journalists . then, and to this moment, many of Mr. 'l'bey ·a re new to the Imperial idea. They Redmond's supporters' saw clearly that should know th.at they are bound in, law the war crisis, instead of being allowed and in loyalty to carry their information to hang -up Home Rule till it -:is dead, without delay to the nearest magistrate created the strongest possible argument or other Imperial authority. While they for the introduction of Home Rule withare making up theii minds about this, I out dela.y and annihilated the Tory th:r:eat recommend them to pay particula.r atten- of rebellion . J?ut when a general loses tion to the "Northern Whig," which will confidence and allows his forces to get on tell them some things that do not pass the run, he sometimes fails to see and seize upon:- a situation that would convert the Sharp Curve censorship . defeat into complete victory. The Welsh * * * The " Northern Whig " is now openly Liberals stood th eir ground, they showed claiming the alliance of the Home Rule that they could fight, and tb,e.y sent Mr. Government against Mr. Redmond . It Masterman, who came looking for a. is devoting leading articles and columns fight, packing back to the Government• of joyful skit to the recall of Lord Aber- an~ Mt. Lloyd George. Wit_h what redeen, which it gloats over as a blow to su_lt? Irish Home Rulers please notice. :Mr. Redmond and his policy, and declares * * * to have been done in spite of all Mr: I quote_the London letter -of the "Irish Redmond's efforts to the coJ!.trary. It Daily Independent,' : -Feb. 19th::___ e-x pects that the new Viceroy will be "a · "There have bee.n -some rema;kable-destrong man," strong for the ideals of the velopments in connection , -{V"i th .the Tory '' Northern Whig.'' This is a graceful attempt "in the Holise Lords to suspend
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The " N oithern Whig " has done more than any other organ 'to promote the sacred cause of Imperialism and its associated gospel of rancour, hatTeg, and discord among the descendants of the United Irishmen, the kinsfolk of Orr, Monro, Russell, Hope, M:i!-rtin, a.n d Mitchel, and by appeals to f~ar and religious qifferences to change a people once -devoted to Irish liberty into barren rea; tionaries. It makes its chief appeal to the Ulster Protestant I)issenters, -whose kindred w-ere the right arm of Ame1'ica i:q the War -of I:naependence and fought and died for Ireland, too, in her last great stand against Imperialism. The Imperialism of the '' Northern Whig '' is proof against history, and i!3 not shaken by the decline of the Presbyterian population throughout Ulster. -Ji<
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The New Imperialists of Belfast remembered the brilliant invention of the New Imperialists of Dublin in a similar plight- the German Gold yarn- and they went one better. 'l'hey cirnulated a. story in Belfast, not a mere vague rumour, but a story adorned with every appropriate circumstance, to the effect that my visit to -Belfast on January 29th was merely cloaked by the Irish Volunteer meeting, the main purpose being to convey a supply o! petrol to the Gerinan submarine which at that time was operating in the Irish Sea. The whole , thing was
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