The men of the Orange lodges are supposed by an
unwarrantable legend to inflame themselves on their anniversary by heady talk about the " pious and immortal memory." There was not a trace of any such language in the speeches of Friday week. A stern and unbending resolve to be loyal to Great Britain and not to be driven out of the Union there was, but this would not have been so im- pressive if it had not been expressed with so much simplicity and restraint. As for violence of language, if you really want to find it, you have to look in the Sinn Fein or the Nationalist newspapers. Acts tell the same tale as language. The men of North-East Ulster do not help German submarines. They do not rob soldiers of their arras. They do not eonverse treasonably with Germany. They
do not defy the law of the land, as the Roman Catholic Bishops do, and declare that it is not binding on them. They do not shoot their opponents in the streets or fire into the houses of those who disagree with them. They do not drive cattle. They do not' illegally break all contracts, as Irishmen did in other parts of Ireland- in the great anti-Conscription demonstration.
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