It was announced in Friday's Times that, "in view of
the dubious attitude of the Government towards Home-rule, and the probability that a large measure of Devolution will be introduced next Session," an organisation has been started called "The Union Defence League." Mr. Walter Long, chairman of the Irish Unionist Members, is the leading spirit of the League, which includes most of the Unionist Party in both Houses, and has the entire approval of the party leaders. The aim of the new Association is defined as "to bring the real facts about Home-rule or Devolution before the electors by means of an active campaign throughout the country." There is ample room for such an organisation, provided that, while setting its face against anarchical experiments on the one hand, it refrains from the non- possumus attitude of the 'extreme Ascendency party on the other.
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