There is no
question of compulsion or bribery. What we want we believe you are ready
and eager to give as the free-will offering of a free people. [Great
cheering.]
The Earl of Meath, Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin, who was next called
on, declared that their gathering would be historic because for the
first time in her history Irishmen of all classes, creeds, and politics
had met on the same platform. The modern Attila might be known, as his
predecessor was known, as the scourge of God. But for the constant
vigilance of our army and our fleet Ireland might have met the fate of
Belgium. He suggested that Earl Kitchener should, as far as possible,
see that the Irish corps at the front should act together.
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MR. ASQUITH AT CARDIFF.
Speech in the Skating Rink, Oct. 2.
In the course of the last month I have addressed meetings in London,
Edinburgh, and Dublin, and now in the completion of the task which I set
myself and which the kindness of our great municipalities has allowed me
to perform I have come to Cardiff. [Cheers.] England, Scotland, and
Ireland have each of them a definite and a well-established capital
city, but I have always understood that there was some doubt where the
capital of the Principality of Wales was to be found on the map.
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