Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — AGAINST HOME RULE. [ARTICLE]

AGAINST HOME RULE.

Balfour And a Tory Demonstration at Belfast. Tuesday was a general holiday at Belfast. At noon Mr. Balfour and other leading Tories headed a procession oi Orangemen and other organizations which inarched through tho street. Theenthusiasm of tho day’s demonstration culminated in the reception of Mr. Balfonr when he appeared before tho mass meeting to make his attack upon Mr. Gladstone’s Homo Rule bill. Cheer followed cheer as he advanced to the front of the platform. When he began to speak his voice was lost In the shouts of the multitude. After the tumult subsided he ’spoke at great length, reviewing the Home Rule question. He prayed to God that Ulster loyalists would not be compelled to fight for their rights, yet the tyranny of majorities might be found as bad as tho tyranny ol Kings. Ho could not deny conscienclously that what was justifiable against a tyrannical king was, under certain circumstances, Justifiable against a tyrannical -majority. He trusted, howevpr, that such eifeumsfarices would UCVfer arise.