PROVINCIAL GO VERNMENT FOR IRELAND.
[TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Why not give Ireland provincial government P Not only Ireland, but every shire or province in the United King. dom. The present system of taking every little petty affair to the House of Commons must be very unsatisfactory. I
understand that it often costs more to get a petty local improvement Bill through the British Houses of Parliament than it actually costs to do the work. Matters pertaining to the Empire or United Kingdom as a whole should be arranged by a United Government or House of Commons as at present, each province or shire electing members to the United Govern- ment in proportion to population, and each should have equal representation, something Ulster has not got under present conditions. Home Rule will never cure Ireland's troubles; provincial government solves the difficulty in Canada, why not in Ireland P Manitoba, the most progressive province in Canada, would never consent to be governed by Nationalist Quebec. No, sir, never. Will Ulster, the only progressive province in Ireland, consent to be governed by the Nationalists and traitors of the south and west of Ireland ? Never; no, sir, never. Ulster is prosperous and contented, why not let well enough alone, or improve their conditions by giving them provincial government ? But don't ask them to consent to be governed by Rome. As loyal subjects of King and country (a compliment I cannot pay to the Nationalists), their reply must be, as it always has been, No surrender. Hoping that I have not trespassed too much on your valuable time, and that these suggestions, through the influence of your paper, may help to solve the problem.—I am, Sir, &c., Manitoba : November 12th, 1913. IRISH CANADIAN.
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