IN PRAISE OF THEHOME RULE BILL. .
`.• • [To THE EDITOR or THE " Aizeratort."] "
Sus—Please do what you can to impress on the British public that every ono in Ireland is not against the Home Rule Bill of the Government. It is most important this fact should be known now that the Bill has to face a severe ordeal in the Reese of Lords. Knowing Ireland as I do after a very, long apprenticeship. I affirm when the Irish people see the Bill will without doubt become law, they will accept and work it. Its success in Ulster is assured from the first. It is the possible method of settling the Irish question without civil war, as anyone must see who thinks and really knows the position in Ireland. There is one improvement I would very much like to see by the inclusion of Donegal in the Ulster Parliament. Of course, I know this cannot be done without the consent of her people, but provision should be made to allow her to come in if she wished to do so. Anyone who looks at the map will realize the improvement this would effect. It would round off the six counties, preserve their flank, increase the representation of the farmer element in the Ulster Parliament, improve the strength of the Nation- alist representation, preserve the port of Derry, whose hinter- land is largely Donegal County; it would also preserve the institutions of Donegal, which are dovetailed into Tyrone and Fermanagh, and not interfere with the workings of the rail- ways. It would also preserve the North Sea route for the Empire and two most valuable strategic harbours, which proved their usefulness in the Great War; also wireless stations and coastguard positions. It would also help materially the large and hard-working and wealthy Unionist farmers and greatly aid in making a success of the Ulster Parliament and also be an aid to final union—a final word to warn the House of Lords not to spoil the best Home Rule Bill and the most generous which was ever offered to Ireland, and which it would be madness indeed to reject.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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