WHAT CIVIL WAR MEANS FOR IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR ON
THE "SPECTATOR:1
Sin,—There is one thing in the present state of affairs that seems to be unnoticed, unheeded, or unforeseen. That is, that it is impossible to rope off Ulster and fight it out in a given area. If it comes to civil war it means fighting in every city, town, and parish in the Empire. I loathe politics and all those who live by the same. For the last twenty-three years I have fought and worked on various edges of the Empire. I have seen war and the more I saw of it the less I liked it. The thought of civil war is horrible to me. But if it comes, I shall start in Ulster, helping them all I can, and if I am not put out of action I shall in the end find myself fighting in other parts of the United Kingdom. In the last few months I have talked of civil war and what it meant to many men. Every- one seemed to think that all that would happen would be fighting in Ulster. At least, that was the view of an Oxford graduate who once stood for election to Parliament, a butcher in good business, a station-master, and a road sweeper, to give you examples of the types talked to. Cannot you make the public realize what civil war means P—I am, Sir, Ac.,
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