Mr. Bonar Law began by declaring that he could not
see how Ulster could possibly accept an automatic Inclusion after six years. What the Prime Minister was proposing to the Ulstermen was that they should destroy their organization, leave their fortress, come into the open, and then "when you are weak you will be compelled to do that which to-day when you are strong you cannot be compelled to do." It was a question of satisfying Ulster. But was not the Prime Minister making the mistake of making his concessions unwillingly, grudgingly, and too late ? We note with great satisfaction that Mr. Bonar Law ended his speech with the whole-hearted adoption of the principle of the Referendum—the principle for which we have struggled for the last fifteen years. Why could not the Government get rid of their difficulties by submitting the question to the decision of the people of this country ? If they were not willing to have a General Election, let them have a Referendum.
