LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
ULSTER AND THE COVENANT.
Sc,—I am looking forward with great interest to your next issue and to your views on Mr. Asquith's proposals for Ulster. It seems to me that our position has been greatly strengthened, for the admission that Ulster may be consulted renders it very difficult to argue that Great Britain has no claim to a similar privilege, and further, it is inconceivable that the Government should resort to civil war over a question of a time-limit, and shed blood to secure the mere postponement of a difficult question. Sir Edward Carson seemed to me remarkably reason- able,but if all Ulster is not as reasonable, it must beremembered that the Government have themselves trod reason underfoot, and have only allowed discussion from the fear of force. No body of armed men ever is or was or can be reasonable, and it is the fault of the Government that they are in 1914 arguing with an army, instead of arguing in 1911 with an unarmed popula- tion. I most earnestly hope that Ulster will not make a fetish of the Covenant, as a large section of Scotsmen made a fetish of the Solemn League long after the occasion of the Solemn League had passed away. I am going to sign the " British Covenant" to-day, but I do so as a means to an end, and I care only about the end.—I am, Sir, Re.,
GLASWEGIAN.
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