We publish in our correspondence columns several letters from Ulstermen
who object to the appeal which we made to Ulster last week to destroy the Home-rule Bill by demanding that if the Government insist on applying their Home-rule principles to Ireland they must be applied evenly and justly. We should have thought it clear that our object was not to obtain separate treatment for Ulster on its merits, but rather to induce the British people by the use of a reductio ad abs argument to see what a blunder they are being asked to commit. Several of our correspondents point out the great difficulty of applying separate treatment to Ulster on geographical grounds. Our answer is that that is "our case." We show that if the Government obey elementary principles of justice and reason in carrying out their scheme they will fall into absurdities which will stultify their Bill. But it is better to create absurdities than injustices.
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