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Show I ; name Rule Measure Is 1 i Denounced as Hiimbag I 1 GLASGOW, March 20. The gov- i crnmenfs home rule bill for Ireland was denounced by Joseph Devlin as a ! "humbug to throw dust in the eyes of y the people of America and elsewhere" ' in a speech he delivered here recently. , . Mr. Devlin declared that it was not a bill for'home rule nor a plan to settle ) the Irish question, but for tho pcrma- a nent division of Ireland into two sec- ',',1 tions. The best thing the government could do, he said, was to drop the bill, I resign offico and "let the enlightened i ! judgment of the British electorate give Of; JJ Ireland what she wanted." ljT;Ji&Jt T. P. O'Connor called the measure wf "an ou-rage and an insult," and said W$ i thai "a more impudent, arrogant, in- I i 1 suiting, lying proposal was never made U I by any body of men in the world." He &J characterise tho action of tho gov- jA I ernmont in suggesting a ropoal of the iA 1 homo rule act of 1914 as a "more per- jf E-ij fidious breach of treaty than the Ger- ' mans' breach of treaty with Belgium." |