3 AUGUST 1912, Page 2

In the last resort what are we to say of

the men who have raised such intolerable questions as these—questions shattering to the whole ethos of the community ? We say deliberately that it was a crime on the part of the Liberal Government to draw their Bill in such a way as to involve the raising of the Ulster problem as it is now being raised. It was their duty either to leave North-East Ulster out of their Bill, as Mr. Agar-Robartes proposed, or else to tell the Nationalists : " We cannot give you Home Rule without com- mitting a great wrong to North-East Ulster, and, therefore, even though we may dislike it, and though you dislike it, we must leave the status quo untouched."