On the contrary, they do make ships and. munitions with
all their strength and all their will. They send into- the Army as many recruits as they dare, remembering that they have to rely upon their own manhood to protect their homes against fellow-Irishmen. In fine, they perform all the work of good' citizens in Ireland, and all they ask for is the privilege of bearing the full burden of the wan Now let us give an example of what in Sir Edward Carson's speech fills the place of the imaginary rhetorical froth of the Boyne anni- versary. " The battle of the Boyne," said Sir Edward Carson, " is celebrated by us not out of hostility towards our Roman Catholic countrymen, but as a great landmark in the advance and• expansion of civilization and Christianity." Again, Sir Edward Carson was most careful to point out that, great as was the danger which threatened' the Protestants of Ulster, theirs was only' a minorcause compared with the great issue that is being fought out in the war. Could moderation go further than that ? " Do not imagine," he said, "'that I think at the present moment that even our cause, grand' as it is, great as it is, impregnable as I believe it to be, is the only cause."
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