Liberal Unionist pronouncement on the Ulster case against Home Rule
in the leading London Unionist papers. Ulster Unionists feel their disabilities in this matter very keenly. The Separatist issue is a matter of life and death to them, and the neglect shown to their statements of their case by most of the English professedly Unionist journals is often most discouraging. For example, the only reference to the above-named manifesto which I could find in the London Press was a sentence of half a dozen lines inserted beneath a report of one of Mr. Redmond's numerous " three-voices speeches," to which most of a column was allotted—truly a homoeopathic remedy. It is needless to say the Radical Press ignores our publications entirely. All the more need, therefore, for sup- port from our own papers. Can nothing be done to remedy this No doubt some of our statements are not short, but the discussion of what men like Mr. Marriott would doubtless consider one of the fundamental Imperial questions of the time cannot be accomplished upon a single page leaflet. You yourself, Sir, are one of Ulster's very best journalist friends.
Can you help us ?—I am, Sir, &c., ULSTER UNIONIST. Belfastl [We most sincerely wish that Unionist daily papers could be induced to give more attention to the Ulster problem. If they did they would soon discover that the Ulster Unionists are in no sense fire-eaters whose attitude is likely to damage the cause of the Union by its exaggeration, but men, like our correspondent, of sound sense and wide culture who are deter- mined to withstand Home Rule, not in order to maintain Protestant or landlord ascendancy—such things have no existence to-day—but to save their country from the misery and ruin which the disintegration of the Union must bring upon Ireland.—En. Spectator.]
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