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Show LONG FIGHT FOP. HOME RULE. Ireland Has Striven for Over a Cf, tury for Home Rule Measure, London. Ireland has striven ! home rule without a moment's ce;i tion ever since the Irish parliaiiu.: was abolished and the legislail. union of Great Britain and Ireiai. was proclaimed on January 1, lain la-in the 113 years that have pass-, since that date the agitation has gi t on under various forms, pacific at. violent, led by such patriots as D. iel O'Connell, William Smith O'Bri Cha-'Jei ..Stewart Parnell, O'Donw. kuSSS and Micnaei uavrci.jiio uicm, only a few of the more proCjnV These were succeeded by the Hi . '. mo'nds and the Healys, who are L I the forefront of the movement todj; The present agitation has bet. mainly brought- about by the practk. ; certainty that Premier Asquith's IrU:. ; uome rule bill would become li -1 without the consent of the house u , ords. Sir Edward Carson is at lb j head of the agitation against hen .ule among the Unionists of Ulster He and several other leading av .ook the initiative in organizing army of Ulster volunteers to resV .he introduction of home rule for lr-.and lr-.and in its entirety. They iusistt .hat Ulster should be left out oi H; operation. i The chief point at issue in Ireiai -is the religious one. Out of a tel. J-population J-population of about 4,500,000, appro! .liately 500,000 are Protestants of vai otis denominations. Most of these a' .ound in the four Ulster counties t j Londonderry, Antrim, Armagh at j jown. The other five counties of 1 j ster are predominantly Catholic. -1 1 a matter of fact, Ulster returns seve: j veen Nationalists and oniy sixtf Unionists to parliament. j There is considerable difference n--tween the people of the eastern P:i or Ulster and those of the rest of 1' . .and. Many of the Ulsterites are e j scendants of English settlers there by Cromwell to foster the ar culture and Industries of Ireland an ; he had subdued the country. j Others are descendants of Sco'.t' ; convenanters. Not all the rroiestz. . , of Ireland are against home rule. ( uell himself was a Protestai.1. I |