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Show EXHIBIT II PECULIAR BHD Of LOYALTY Unionists Are Charged With Seeking an Alliance With Emperor of Germany. NOVEL FARMING PLAN Germans Mistrust the English Proposal to Establish Naval Programme Holiday. By PHTTiTP EVERETT. Special Cablo to The Tribune. LONDON, Deo. C. Suroly no ono can deny any longer that tho Omngemon of Ulster tho loyalists, as they aro fond of calling thomsclvcs aro ohooslng rather rath-er atrango ways of proving tholr loyalty. loy-alty. Not only aro they eager to fight any troopa tho government may find It necessary to send to Ulster in order to enforco a homo ,mlo law . adopted by parliament and signed by tho kins', but they now declare thomselves roady to boc.omo subjects of tho kaiser rn.th.or than bow to tho govornment. In a recent lssuo of tho Unionist papor, pa-por, tho lrlHh Churchman, I And tho following fol-lowing sensational paragraph: It may not bo known to tho rank and file of Unionists that wo havo tho offer of aid from a powerful continental con-tinental monarch, who. If homo rulo is forced on tho Protestants of Ireland, Ire-land, is prepared to send an army sufficient to rollovo England of any furthor trouble In Ireland bv attaching attach-ing it to his dominions, believing, as he does, .that if our king breaks hla j coronation oath by Blgnlng the home rulo bill bo will by so doing forfeit for-feit hlo claim to rulo Ireland. And, should our king sign the homo rulo bill, tho Protestants of Ireland will welcome thlB continental deliverer ( an their forefathers under similar circumstances did once before. Has Farm Plan. Whllo conservative dukoa and peers of lees exalted rank have hitherto tried to prove their patriotism and interoot In tho solution of the Important land problem prob-lem merely by trying to unload on the government as much of their surplus land as nosslblo at four or flvo times Its actual value, a liberal peer, Lord Ashby St. Lodgors, has come forward with an offer to put tho government's land policy to a fair and practical test. Importing a farming expert from Denmark, Den-mark, whero agrlculturo Is worked In tho most rational and scientific manner, to aat as supervisor, Lord St. Ledgers intends to work two largo farms, pay higher wages than those prevailing to all his farmhands arid mako the farms pay. Should tho experiment provo a success, his laborers will bo better housed than any In tho country and will recolvo from 30 to 50 por cent moro In return for tholr work. Also their working hours will be considerably shortened, leaving thorn (lmo to work tho gardens belonging to their cottogos and thus raise all tha vegetables needed by tholr families. Tho Danish expert engaged has, after a careful analysis of tho soli, doclared that It will bo able to produce four times tho present crops, whon worked scientifically, scien-tifically, and tho oxporlmont should thus provo exceedingly profltablo to tho owner. Germans Incredulous. Judging from the German press, rola-tlons rola-tlons botwoon Germany and this country are not apt to Improve vory rapidly, and it Is tho first lord of the admiralty whom tho Germans aro Inclined to blamo. Tho subjects of tho kalsor aro bewildered by what they call Mr. Churchill's erratic tactics, and ono really foels Inclined . to oympathlze with thorn. Whon they hear the English secretary of tho navy seriously seri-ously advocating tho ldoa of an Anglo-German Anglo-German annual holiday In the construction construc-tion of warships to keep down tho burden bur-den of armaments, and a few weeks later And him as eagerly advocating absolute British naval supremacy, they ceaso to trust him any longer, becauso they do not know what he really means, and thoro aro a lot of people In thlB country In the samo boat. As a matter of fact I know from Mr. Churchill himself that he has no higher wish than to soo IiIb "naval holiday" proposition realized, if for no other roa-son, roa-son, becauso, being a young man. he Is fond of power, while continued shipbuilding ship-building must necessarily moan new taxes and tho taxpayors havo a peculiar ton-doncy ton-doncy at gonoral elections to push Into oblivion the mon who burden them with new taxes, Tho Germans, whoso cabinets aro less susceptible to popular Indignation and whoBo cabinet ministers do not resign at tho first warning of their unpopularity, do not realize thin or they would understand under-stand Mr. Churchill muoh bettor than they do. Why Not a Picnic? Tho editor of Truth, who is a moat ro-sourceful ro-sourceful man, suggests .that In caHo the Idea of a "naval holiday" should provo too difficult to reallzo, thoro is another way out of tho presant difficult position. Gormany, ho says, la thinking of sending send-ing out two battleships to distant parts of tho world to show tho Gorman flag. Why nhonld not both countries send their nax-lcn out together on a friendly picnic around the world? If the experiment should prove to bo a success It would bo ; established that both countries can get along without any warships whatever at home, and this gain, would prove that navies aro roally superfluous. The proposal, pro-posal, of courne, Is a Joke, but there Is a good deal in tho thought that lies behind be-hind 1L Tho choruu of voices protesting against tho Increasing expenditures on armaments is dally growing stronger and a league has boen formod by representative citizens, citi-zens, under tho leaderahlp of Lord Wclby and Sir Herbert Leon, to organize a popular pop-ular protest against this wasto of tho money of tho people. |