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Show Ml Churchill Opens Debate on Second Reading in House .Lo',!!n' Ma' L Winston Spencer Churchill began the debate yesterday at the second reading of the Irish home rule bill In tho house of commons com-mons Mr. Churchill said he regarded the homo rule Question with a strictly modem eye. The whole character of the movement had moderated, he said, since the Gladstonlan period. The question naw was not comparable in importance to the. problem of the growing discontent among the laboring labor-ing classes in England, or to the necessity ne-cessity for guarding British possessions posses-sions Two of the most powerful omplres in the world Germany and America-Mr. America-Mr. Churchill pointed out, wcie carried car-ried on by a gigantic system, of federated feder-ated states, and ho thought federation, of which Tiomo rulo was the first sfep, would help to further consolidate the United Kingdom. Walter Long, a former Unionist, chief secretary of. Ireland, moved the tejectlon of Ihe bill. Mr. Long said that It was not peace that the bill would bring but war-bitter war-bitter war In every word and clause of it. Tho government had no right, even for tho sake of settling the Irish question, to run grave risks with respect re-spect to national dofenso which would exist under the Irish parliament. Ulster was In deadly earnest In its determination not to submit to home rule, and the opposition was equally determined not to desert its friends In Ireland. Thomas Scanlan, Nationalist, from North Sllgo, said the Nationalists wanted to build up an Ireland whero Protestants would have equal rights with Catholics He said that a largo number of people in the north of Ireland Ire-land had been converted to home rule in recent years, and the number was steadily increasing. |