In...other words, if the majority of the Irish Roman Catholic
Bishops can help it, there shall be no concession of any sort or kind to North-East Ulster. For the area in question Home Rule shall -mean-coercion puraand simple. The Sinn Feiners, of course, say the same thing. No doubt most of the Unionist signatories of the protest are actusted by very different motives. but the Government are pledged not to put the Home Rule Bill into operation if it involves the coercion of Ulster. Therefore we have reached a complete deadlock. No Government in their- senses will attempt to force a compromise on the Sinn Feiners and-the, greater part of the Roman hierarchy, plus a section -of Protestants ; nor, again, will any Government in their senses, quite apart from the question of-breaking an honourable agreement, attempt to apply the Home Rule Bill to Ireland without the safety-valve of- excluding from the Bill that area in which the local majority demands exclusion.
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