What was it that produced this unmasking of the Nationalist
scheme ? It was the demand for the exclusion of North-East Ulster from the operation of Home Rule. When, five years ago, we first began to insist that a demand for Exclusion was the way to save the Union, we declared that Exclusion would prove " the uncreating word"—the word that would bring down the walls of the Nationalist Jericho. And so the event has proved. When we first advocated the demand for Exclusion we were regarded almost as traitors to the Union, Yet Exclusion, as we knew it could and
would, has saved the Union, and saved it with honour by proving Home Rule a political fraud. To-day we can say no more in regard to the details of the debate, except that Mr. Lloyd George showed great courage in the way in which he handled the question. Ho proved once more that boldness in approaching political difficulties is the politician's best policy.
