It is impossible to read such a resolution as this,
and also to takb into account the character and record of the persons who attended the Conference, without feeling that opinion in Ireland, apart from Ulster, is moving in a fit of despondency towards the conviction that a much wider form of self-govern- ment than any yet offered must be granted to Ireland. Many of those who voted for the resolution in f)ublin would probably tell you that they still believe the Union to be the best means of government for Ireland, but that they have found the Union no longer workable because the Government have ceased to govern in Ireland. If this conviction, born of despondency, or rather of utter hopelessness, should spread as it is spreading now, we shall soon arrive at a situation in which the demand
for abandoning the South and West of Ireland to the Strn Feiners will come as much -from loyalists as from Sinn Fe inert themselves.
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