ULSTER AND HOME RULE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I enclose a cutting from the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Recorder. This is a Protestant paper, and always has been. Have you courage enough to publish this in your paper ? Or will you answer it by saying, as you did about several American papers who referred to Carson as a rebel, " that they did not understand the situation "? Or do you only publish one side of an argument?— I am, Sir, &c., • JAMES CARLIN. Boston, Mass., April 2nd.
[The answer to the question is that we have enough courage to publish the leading article which our correspondent encloses but not enough space. The sense of the article is that there are as many Home Rulers in Ulster as there are Unionists, and that only-bigotry. stands in the way of what the writer of the article calls " local government." If our correspondent had read the Spectator with any care, he would have known that we have always taken pains to point out that the homogeneous Unionist and Protestant area is- made .up of the Six Counties which comprise North-East Ulster. It is for that area that we have always claimed the rights of what it is now the fashion to call self- determination. As for " local government," our correspondent will no doubt have learned by this time that the Sinn Feiners and Nationalists are combining to demand a form of government of a much more independent nature than can possibly be covered by that title.—Eo. Spectator.]
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