On Wednesday Sir Edward Carson made a particularly powerful speech.
Why had not Mr. Asquith at least out. lined his promised proposals? He was glad that the Government bad admitted their responsibility, but he was afraid they were still playing for position. If the Prime Minister required that as a condition of concessions the Ulstermen should support the Home Rule Bill, he must say now that be and his friends could never do it. If Exclusion was not contrary to the fundamental principle of the Bill—and he took that to be Mr. Asquith's meaning-
why did not the Government offer it at once P The Govern- ment must either coerce Ulster, or try to win her over by showing that good gorernwent could porno under Home Rule. One false step in relation to Ulster would render a solution of the Irish question impossible. He hoped. for peace, but it would not be his fault if resistance became necessary.
