[John Redmond’s Last Years by Stephen Gwynn]@TWC D-Link bookJohn Redmond’s Last Years CHAPTER III 19/54
All Catholics were driven out of the Belfast shipyards; many were injured, and over two thousand men were still deprived of work on July 12th, when the Unionist party held a great meeting at Blenheim.
Mr.Bonar Law, facing for the first time a vast typical gathering of his supporters, said that, on a previous occasion, when speaking as little more than a private member of Parliament, he had counselled action outside constitutional limits.
Now, he emphasized it that he took the same attitude as leader of the Unionist party. "We shall use any means--whatever means seem to us to be most likely to be effective--any means to deprive them" (the Government) "of the power they have usurped and to compel them to face the people whom they have deceived.
The Home Rule Bill in spite of us may go through the House of Commons.
There are things stronger than parliamentary majorities.
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