On Monday Lord Crewe moved the second reading of the
Home Rule Bill in the House of Lords. His first effort was an attempt to minimize the resistance which Ulster would offer to the Bill if she were not excluded, and also if the opinion of the country were not taken before the third time of asking. As the matter is necessarily one of opinion, we do not propose to argue it with Lord Crewe. We can only register our belief that if he and his colleagues think there will be no resistance from Ulster, they are living in a fool's paradise. Ulster, be went on to say, was animated solely by unreasoning hatred of the Roman Catholic Church. Let us suppose that to be true. Surely it is an argument for maintaining a Government which can hold the balance evenly between the Protestants and Catholics, and not for enthroning the Roman Catholics in Ulster because they have a local majority in other parts of Ireland.
