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MR. ASQUITA ON IRELAND. PRESIDENT WILSON ANGRY SELF-GOVERNMENT REMEDY. WITH M. JUSSERAND AND LORD

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The President is known to have hear torribly incensed over Viscount Grey' letter on the peace treaty, and also over the fact that Viscount Grey discussed at social dinners the peace treaty, and Eng- land's views on it with both Republican and Democratie:

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In the same wh Ambassador Jusserand le zaïd to hara dia. whirl of diplomatic society eussed the treaty equally frankly, from the French viewpoint He has zonde pain that Franey would take any reser

tona to get the United States into the particularly close social associste of the League Secretary Lansing has been a French ambassador,

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Mr. Asquith, addressing Pauley elec- tors, anid the question of our relations The possibility of the President's dis with Ireland was one of the highest pleasura next being visited upon Ambas argency and importance. He had been asador Jusserand of France, and that hi Home Ruler ever since he entered public recall might be asked was widely discussed life. After detailing his own share in in Faabington in the gossy growing out the Home Rule movement, Mr. Asquith of Secretary Lansing's desiguation. said that in the early years of the war when it was impossible to make effective, progress in the matter, the was growing up on the flank of the old constitutional Nationalist party, led by Mr. Redmond the revolutionary body with wider and ulterior purposes which now went, by the name of Sinn Fein. It was the hotheads of that new party who provoked the lament able Enster rising in Dublin in 1916 Declaring that wo were then within men- surable distance of prospective settlement, Mr. Asquith added, "Here comes in the tragedy. The early spring of 1918 was most unfortunately and most short sightedly chosen by the Government for the introduction of a, compulsory Military Service Bill which could be extended to Ireland The first Coalition Govern- ment of which ba was held was satisfied that from the temper and disposition of the Irish people it was not worth the while that the military result would not. justify the ill-feeling, resentment, and animosity that would be aroused. seems to me still," he added, that it was. an act of unstatesmanlike short-sighted ness, which could not be too much regret ted, that this particulat moment was chosen for the application of compulsory military services in Ireland" At that time he warned the Government that in trying to enforce compulsory military service they were guilty of terrible short sightedness. The Compulsory Service Bill was carried, but there had never been any attempt to execute it, and the terrible consequences which had followed could have been easily avoided. They had never had the courage of the foolhardiness to attempt to put their measure into opere tion. Nothing was done for twenty months after compulsory service had been on the Statute Book, it was hanging over the Irish people but never applied. The promise of Home Rule was delayed and not fulfilled. What was its effect upon Irish opinion and feeling Exactly what you might have expected. The effect was that Sinn Fein, which was on the down grade and losing election after election during the months which preceded the report of the Irish Convention Sinn Fein raised its bead Disappointed, and as it said befooled, the Irish people deserted the standard of the constitutional party and rallied round the flag of the revolt fionary party. As if there was not enough trouble already you had military rule, soldier pus at the head of the Government, troops poured into the coun- try in enormous numbers. Military rule in some of its most fantastic and most exasperating and irritating forms became dominant in Ireland, and when the General Election of December a year ago took place the Constitutional party was swept out of existence at the poll, and the guidance, the steersmanship, of the national cause passed very largely into revolutionary hands.

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a six months boliday? This question, Should Mr. Lloyd George go away for says a home paper, is being raised by his friends, some of whom are urging him to drop work and save his health round the world would do him good, and it would not be without, value from the imperial point of view, though perhaps this consideration breaks into the whole idea of the plan.

go for this trip. He has long promised There are other reasons why he should Welsh Americana to go out and visit them, His much loved daughter has gone to ladie and he would like nothing better than a visit to her. He could not go until the peacemaking is finished, or matil the political parties are assume a kind of permanence. If he left now how long would, the Coalition last? would be the fate of the Liberal Coali

And what tionists. who left all to follow him and would be sheep without a shepherd is the Premier went on tour!

to suppose, for instance, that there would be anything in the nature of a predatory Rystem of Head injusties against Ulster was to his mind to credit be Irish people with the intelligence of lunatics Ulster was the great source of Irish prosperity and wealth, and any thing which tended to drive sway either capital or labour from Ulster, or to ham. per or penalise the exercise of the magni- heent system which the Ulster people had built up by their own energy and skill would be more fatal to the rest of Ireland than it would be to Ulster herself.

Quoting Mr. John Redmond's dictum that Ireland is a unity, Mr. Asquith con- tinued: "You must keep in view in your settlement the unity of Ireland as the covering purpose of the whole thing, and at the same time you must not be afraid for the sake of pedantió, logical symme try, or anything of that kind, to allow for wide elasticity and diversity in regard

And now, continued Mr. Asquith, what do we see. It is a belated attempt, I am glad the Government are at last trying, late in the day though it is, to redeem the promise that ought to have been perform ed two years ago. Yes, but with all the difference in the world. The atmosphere to particular areas and particular in- in Ireland in 1918 was totally different terests. Many and successive as are the

to solve Trish difficulties are constantly met, I am sanguine enough still to believe

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to the atmosphere in 1990. I am not re-disappointments with which our attempts ferring to the lamentable and repre- hensible growth of murder and of outrage, but you have what is more serious; you if that view of the case in its breadth have got the opinion of law-abiding and signification is duly and properly people, who are not themselves disposed presented, not only to the people of to transgress the law still less to be guilty ireland as a whole, bat the minonty in of criminal acts. The sympathy of law- the South and to the people of North abiding people is not with those who are East Ulster in the North, presented to trying to execute the law, but passively them not as representing the triumph of with those who violate the law. That is a majority over a minority, but as a most serious from the point of view of social order. Whatever measure you now introduce, even though inspired by the highest and most far-seeing statesmanship, La bandicapped, and starts with a rela tively poor chance. Nevertheless, we must porsevere, and, in my judgment, we ought to persevere without delay in that

means of accommodation by which, with out any sacrifice of religion, focal custom, if you like, of prejudice and preposses sion-they may live side by side and con tribute to the progress and prosperity of the common country; and I am sanguine enough to believe you will even not, noed to coerce, Ulster. He believed the ting at the root of all this trouble, which undoubtedly aggravated the dif

Fein, namely, in completing, rendering practic culties of the case, was only a transient, able, and setting upon its lega, a generous phenomenon. system of Irish self-government (Cheers.)

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A PERMANENT BUITLEMENT There were some people who believed the I shall reserve y judgment on the pro-first act of an Irish Assembly would be posals of the Government until I see them to proclaim something in the nature of in the shape of a Bill, but I will not an Irish Republic. He did not think so. refuse to consider not only dispassionately. He was not alarmed by that prospect. but with every desire to broaden and What did an Irish Republic mean in fact 1 strengthen and render more effective for it would mean the severance of Ireland its purpose any proposal put forth in not only from the United Kingdom, but good faith and with the object of scour a voluntary self-exclusion from the whole ing Irish self-government.Choors.) I British Empire. Ireland would become think that for a permanent settlement, little isolated unit deliberately cut off and it is for that we ought to look, we by her own not from partnership in one must proceed upon the most generous common Imperial adventure. She would lines, Ipl for myself, but I and quite be belittling berseif, going down the stepe prepared to run such risks as there are of the ladder, abdicating ber place in the in giving the new Irish Parliament con- greatest partnership in the world, and trol over their Customs and Excise; in taking her place amongst the smallest and other words, putting them on the anze least considered of all political units footing in that respect as all our great What posible interest had Ireland in self-governing Dominions. He was cutting herself adrift from the greatest Aatished that the Irish in the long run inheritance to be found amongst the s were av very abrowd and businesslike tins of the world? It was a danger he people, and if this power was entrusted was quite prepared to hazard in the to them they would not abuse it, at ang attempt to get rid of what was by far zato as against us, and in the long run the greatest reproach to our states not as against any section of their own ship, not only a reproach but inhabitants, because if they did they and indefensible violation of the principle would be improverishing themselves to s of self-determination to which we for greater extent than they would injure other great peoples, had committed as or their fellow citizens It was to solves. The case of Ireland in some res their interest to have the freest and most pecte stood on its own footing. unrestricted intercourse between the two case where social order was seriou islands Nor was he seriously alarmed periodically imperilled, but at the app shension, quite honestly cater most urgent, it was not the onl Bained in one quarters, that the majority

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