Under the heading of " Home Rule or the Union,"
Mr Arthur Elliot, writing in the Times of Tuesday, as an old Liberal Unionist, expresses the hope that men will not allow their attention to be diverted by controversy over local inci- dents in the campaign from the fundamental principles for which Sir Edward Carson is contending. He reminds us that in 1886, in 1893, and in 1895 the Union would have been destroyed had not Liberals of many sorts and kinds rallied in its defence, and recalls the burning words in which John Bright denounced the great surrender which the Liberal Party were called to make—the betrayal of the Irish loyalists. Since then Government and Parliament have carried through beneficent measures which it would have been entirely beyond the competence of an Irish Parliament to pass. In these circumstances "it surely can hardly be the case that the Unionist cause in 1912 is to be defended only by those who accept in its entirety the full creed of the Conservative Party."
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