THE ARMY AND CIVIL WAR.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SrEcrwroa."] SIR,—Your correspondents write as if some kind of com- promise must be found in order to deliver us from civil war. But is it not plain that the question of civil war rests with the Army P The Government have brought the Army into politics. It cannot be forced to fight against its will, and without its co-operation the Government policy cannot be carried out. So long as the present Home Rule Bill holds the field, dividing the nation into two almost equal halves and necessitating the co-operation of the Army, the Army is the master of Parliament and the arbiter of the national destinies. One reason for dropping the Home Rule Bill as quickly as possible is to prevent a situation fraught with such possibilities from reaching its natural development in a coup d'état.—I am,
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