It is with profound indignation that we note the attack
on the house of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland on Monday. Happily, the Prime Minister and Lady Craig were not in their house at the time, but what a reflection is the outrage upon our conduct of Irish affairs. We admit that the North of Ireland has a right to decline the awful fate which would have awaited it had it been handed over to the tender mercies of the Dublin Parliament, the I.R.A., and the Praetorian Guard of the Four Courts. Yet the Government seem unable, or unwilling, to take the necessary measures to prevent the invasion of a Province which they have acknowledged it to be our duty to preserve from harm. We do not suppose for a moment that Sir James and Lady Craig are going to be intimidated by such tactics as these, but what must they and the Belfast people feel when in most English newspapers and in Parliament such matters are treated either with levity or indifference, or else the North is told that such things are the result of the cruel attacks upon the defenceless Belfast Roman Catholics I
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