12 NOVEMBER 1921, Page 1

If people in this country who ardently desire peace in

Ireland— as who does not ?—ask why Ulstermen should be so pernickety about their rights, and should not inhale and be grateful for the genial atmosphere which the Prime Minister is producing in his political laboratory, we would ask them to remember the kind of thing which Ulster Loyalists have continually before their eyes. They have never adopted murder as a policy. They have always denounced it and execrated it like decent Christians. But the majority in the rest of Ireland do stand for murder as a political instrument. The latest demonstration of that policy, and not the least horrible, was described in the Moriting PosE of Tuesday.