29 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 2

At Birmingham on Friday week, Mr. Bonar Law said that

the people were at last beginning to recognize how terrible would be the consequences if the Government carried the Home Rule Bill in its present form. It was in vain at the last election that Unionists had tried to get the country to understand the meaning of the Parliament Act. It did not mean the destruction of the veto of the Lords, but the destruction of the veto of the people themselves. Now the people knew that the Government wanted to use their own immense new powers to dragoon the people of Ulster, and deep emotion was awakened. The people should be asked for their verdict. If a general election went in favour of the Government, the Bill would go through smoothly.