Remember what this piece of party tactics means when translated
into action. If single-Chamber government is established, and the Home-rule Bill forced on the Lords without any appeal to the people, it will then have to be forced upon the North of Ireland. This means recourse to coercion by the armed forces of the nation, for to nothing but force of that kind will Ulster yield. The men who now talk so glibly about the horrors of militarism, the wickedness of bloodshed, and the "murderous sword" will find that to put their legislation into operation they will have to shed the blood of the people of the North of Ireland. Of that we have no doubt whatever. As to whether Ulster will be right to fight we will nob now pronounce an opinion, but fight she will, if, when she asks to be left out of a Home-rule Bill, she is told that the right of self-government is a right which may be claimed by the Celtics, Roman, and Southern Irish, but is not a right to which the Protestant Teutons of the North have any claim.
