Such an Act, he continues, would snake the people of
Ulster rebels by the very fact of resistance. He next points out that Unionist pledges to Ulster are very pritise, for Unionists have promised never to compel Ulster to form part of an All-Ireland Parliament without her consent. He shows that the so-called safeguards for Ulster would be quite illusory as there would be nobody to guarantee them. The British Government could not or would not interfere with the affairs of a self-governing Dominion. So the majority would suppress the minority by degrees. The majority would ray, for instance, " It is absurd in a little island like this to have two systems of education. It is equally absurd to have two Excise and Custom House
staffs." How, asks the writer, could the British Government interfere ? Only by sending an army, and we are actually asked to believe that the British Government, " which is now so afraid of the Sinn Feiners that to pacify them it breaks all its pledges," would send an army to protect Ulster
