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Show ! SIR EDWARD CARSON CALLED DICTATOR. j A remarkable pen-picture of Sir Edward Carson, the Header of the unionist "revolt" against home rule in Ulster, who in a short time has become be-come one of the most talked of and powerful men in the United Kingdom, King-dom, is contributed to the London Graphic by Philip Gibbs. Mr. Gibbs, who as a descriptive journalist has made for himself a place something like that of the late G. W. Stevens, says in part: "Sir Edward Carson is the dictator of Ulster. The people of Ulster, apart from that Catholic minority who on half-holidays may hang him in effigy on street lamp posts, are puppets who dance when he pulls the strings. At the word 'Go" fro h;m they would advance at quick step to any kind of danger, folly, and death. He can play upon their emotions as upon a fiddle with more than five strings, with fifty or a hundred thousand strings plucked I ' Y from their hecrts, and ready to quiver at the sound of that deep persuasive voice of his. He holds their hearts in the hollow of his hand. "He has put a spell upon them. They have a kind of worship for him. ks a demi god, a superman, master of their fate, champion of their rights. For a week their clamorous enthusiasm has rolled up to him in waves of hoarse shouts and cheers, as he has gone like a conquering hero (anticipating victory and accepting his laurels in advance) on a triumphal progress." " - |
