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Show ULSTER, 'S 1HBEAT. j Evidently the men of Ulster have j not bucn keepiup up with tho rest of the inhabitants of mother earth in tho onward martli of civilization. News comes from Loudon thnt tho British government' has prohibited tho im- portation of arms into Ireland, and , from Dublin comes the information thnt an uprising of, Orangemen Is cx-j cx-j pectod to follow, tho Ulstormon having been pretty well supplied with munl-' munl-' tions of war aiuce Sir Edward Carson begun his crusade. Tho differences between the north . aud south of Ireland arc religions, not political. Tho . Ulster men have not changed their views sinco tho days of ' Cromwell, have resisted during the in tervening years all efforts of the gov-I gov-I eminent of Great Britain to deal just- i ly with tho Irish Catholics. Thoy fought tho emancipation bill just as ' they are fighting homo rulo and darkly predicted the return of the British empire em-pire to "popery" and wooden shoes should the bill be eancted. Tho emancipation bill passed in spite 1 of religious prejadico and the Irish 1 pooplo began to emerge from tho gloom of unjust discrimination. The land bill followed nftor n lapse of years Hl and the Emerald IeIo becarao fairly prosperous, tho Ulster men all tho while bonding every energy to block tho wheels of progress. All this in face of tho fact that they shared In the general prosperity and the conse-quent conse-quent social uplift. H Now that a great party in Great Britain proposes to establish home rulo in Ireland, wo find tho same backward back-ward spirit in Ulstor, tho earao narrow nar-row viow, tho same religious prejudice that has boon exhibited orery time something for tho good -of tho whole country has bcon proposed. Tho Ulstor men evidently fear to meet their brethren breth-ren of the south of Ireland on equal ground. They would like a revival of the roprossivo acts which kept tho Catholic portion of Ireland In virtual bondngo for so many years. It will not do. Civilization is too far advanced to halt at tho behese of tho nor'lh of Ireland reactionaries. Home rule will como oven -if delayed" beyond the timo not for tho passage of tho bill by tho British parliament, and if tho inflammablo followers of Sir Edward Carson take up arms, so much tho worso for them. People familiar with British his-tor3' his-tor3' remember tho Lord George Gordon Gor-don riots. Tho Ulster uprising, if it really occurs, will probably end in a similar miserable fiasco. |