The attempt to drag an Irish rod-herring across the path
is another futility. Unionists will one and all support the Govern- ment in the sternest warfare on murder and sedition in Ireland. Even those who, like ourselves, think that if we give autonomy to the South the wider the terms the better (provided our strategic and financial interests are secured and protection is given to the loyalists) are not going to relax their efforts in the struggle with the secret Commonwealth of Murderers and Conspirators. The last word in the Ministerial crisis is, we believe, this : Mr. Lloyd George can no longer double the parts of whole-hearted Liberal and death-or-victory Unionist. The hour has come when he must be put to his election. He must become a Unionist with no kissing of his hand behind our backs to Liberalism or Labour, and head a homo- geneous if reduced Party governed by fixed principles and with a coherent policy. If he will not do this, he must look out for another situation. No other solution will suffice.
