The answer is easy. The apparent dilemma is no dilemma
at all, for the very good and sufficient reason that no one is suggesting that Tyrone should be put under Protestant domination or under a Belfast Parliament. If Tyrone is excluded, all that will happen to Tyrone is that the status quo will be maintained, and that it will be left under the Parliament at Westminster. But surely to leave it in neutral hands, neither under the Ulstermen nor under the Nationalists, is the most appropriate fate conceivable for a debatable land. The local affairs of Tyrone will be conducted, as before, by the Tyrone County Council, and Sir Edward Carson and the men of Belfast will have no more to do with her local and domestio affairs than will the people of Liverpool or Glasgow. Surely, when a change in the status quo will certainly provoke oivil war, the wise thing is to leave matters as they are. And that is all the Unionists ask for in the case of Tyrone.
