On the general question we bold Mr. Bonar Law's attitude
to be justifiable. In a most difficult position he has acted with courage and firmness. It is perfectly monstrous to suggest that he is creating the threatened resistance to Home Rule in Ulster. That threatened resistance is a fact, and a most momentous fact, which neither he nor any one else can alter by pretending to ignore it. In doing his best to bring home that essential fact to the understanding of the British electorate Mr. Bonar Law is only performing a plain duty. Mr. Asquith, on the other band, in attempting to ignore that fact, and to denounce those who make it plain, is doing the very reverse of his duty. If Mr. Asquith holds that the people of North-East Ulster are traitors and the enemies of their country, and that they should be forced under the Dublin Parliament no matter what amount of blood be shed in doing so, let him say so openly. It is a mere sophistry to pretend that it is a crime to face the facts.
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