If that should happen, through the Government still failing to
restore order in Ireland, it could not be helped. We can conceive circumstances in which we should simply lave to consent to the force of events and let the Simi Fekers have almost any form of Government they wanted, provided that they were not accorded the right to take in North-East Ulster. But the British Government could not possibly allow the revolutionaries of Ireland, when they cut themselves adrift, also to receive heavy subsidies. The more freedom the less money must be the rule. No decent person, as things are going, could look on unmoved at the prospect before the loyalists of the South and West. In our opinion, if the worst comes to the worst, a con- siderable proportion of the money now paid to Ireland in subsi- dies should be earmarked for the compensation of those who will in effect be driven out of Ireland. The money should be used, for example, to buy lands for those who lose 'their property either in this country or in Ulster, or, if the beneficiaries would agree, in one of the British Dominions.
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