That being so, it appears to us that Unionists ought
not to say : "Therefore we will not ask that the Home-rule principle shall be applied justly." We should rather insist on such application in order that the capital political errors involved in Home-rule may become apparent. The best way to bring home in detail the absurdity of the Government's proposal is to say that if they insist on passing their Bill, it ought at any rate to provide for Ulster's case. They ought at the very least to allow each county of Ulster to vote on the question whether it shall be under a Dublin Parliament or a Belfast Parliament. If the consequences of such action are adminis- trative confusion, those consequences must be met, not by the people who demand justice for Ulster, but by the Government who so madly propose to dissolve the Union.
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