Mr. Bonar Law next confirmed the policies already announced by
Lord Lansdowne of better housing in town and country, and of a system of small-ownership. We welcome in this connexion his assurance that Unionists will not be guilty of outbidding the Liberals in the electoral market by means of socialistic nostrums. Mr. Bonar Law most pertinently quoted
Burke: " When leaders make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity they cease to be legislators and become flatterers?'
He concluded with a recommendation of Tariff Reform. Sir
Edward Carson, in speaking of the prospept of resistance in Ulster, said :— " We will shortly challenge the Government to interfere with us if they dare, and we will with equanimity await the result. We will do this regardless of all consequences, of all personal loss, or of all inconvenience. They may tell us, if they like, that that is treason; it is not for men who have such stakes at we have at issue to trouble about the cost. We are prepared to take the consequences."
We are convinced that Mr. Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson meant exactly what they said.
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