19 SEPTEMBER 1914, Page 2

We are glad to note that Mr. Redmond has made

some slight amends for using. the nation's peril to exact his full pound of flesh from Ulster by issuing a manifesto intended to encourage recruiting in Ireland. If be means business, and does not try to exact special terms which will interfere with the military efficiency of the battalions required, and so spoil his efforts, he ought to be able to give the nation, as far as numbers go, at least twice as many men as are supplied by Ulster. Rivalry between the South and West and the Pro- testant North in this reepeet can do no harm, but great good. That there is splendid fighting material among the rank-and- file of the Irish Nationalists we acknowledge to the fullest possible extent.