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Show LLOYD GEORGE MS ON HUSK HOME RULE i LONDON. March 31. Answering ar-J guments in the house of commons to- day against the Irish home rule bill,) I Premier Lloyd George declared the j (government had every reason to be1 satisfied wilh the course of the do-' bate as it demonstrated that the gov ernment's plan waslhe only one that held the field. The difficulty of the problem, the premier said, is that no proposals which would be acceptable to any party par-ty jn this country would be accepted by any party in Ireland. If the people of Ireland were asked what plan they would accept, declared Mr. Llojdi George, they would say by an emphatic majority: "We want independence and an Irish republic." The premier insisted there was no! use of talking about self-determination j since those who supported It must go to the .full length pf granting an Irish republic. j "Self-determination." continued Ihej premier, "does not mean that every part of the country, which has been acting together for a hundred years, should have the right lo say: 'Wo mean to set up a separate republic There must be a limit to the application applica-tion of any principle; otherwise It might be carried to every locality in every country throughout the world." Mr. Lloyd George asserted that no one had accepted the plan of former Premier Asquith. Dealing with the suggestion of John H. Clynes, Labor, for a cpnstituent assembly, the premier pre-mier emphasized that the previous Irish convention had failed and asked ' if It were likely that the assombly proposed, by Mr. Clynea "would be any more successful. Since any proposal which Irish opinion would by a lare majority accept would not be accepted accept-ed by any party in Great Britain. Mr. Lloyd George declared, therefore the government must exercise its Judgment Judg-ment for the United Kingdom and fhe whole empire in order to. come to the wisest conclusion possible. The premier reiterated his declaration declara-tion that the government plan held the field because it recognized the fact that the house would not satisfy Irish opinion In its present state without destroying de-stroying the essential unity of the kingdom. The demand in Ireland for the moment was for independence and secession not self-government. Mr. Lloyd George said he wanted to say tor our American friends" that Eamoun de alera was putting forward thel same languages Jefferson Davis and, that some of the men who voted for tne Irish self-determination motion in the senate the other day had ancestors ances-tors who fought to death against conceding con-ceding to the southern states of America Am-erica the very demand thev are now supporting for Ireland, The acceptance of that demand,, declared de-clared the premier, would never come. It was a demand which, if persisted in, he said, would lead to exactly the same measures of repression as In tho case of the southern states of America. Ameri-ca. Great Britain, he declared, claimed lothing more than the United States ' had claimed for themselves. Groal K Britain, he added, would stand on IU W own legs. m. Theie were certain powers which K might be conferred upon Ireland when K she settled down to an established K union and accepted partnership with m the United Kingdom, said the premier, out if they were given at the present they would only' be wasted, to the R harm of the union and of herself. K R would be placing dangerous weapons K in the hands of an infuriated people, W he declared. The premier concluded E. by saying he believed the bill wonld m result in bringing about the union of I the north and tho south, union with Protestants and Catholics, union with "wJre- Great Britain and Ireland. Mf |