THE ULSTER TROUBLE.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 January 1914, Page 2

THE ULSTER TROUBLE.

To us, governing ourselves in peace and content, it is difficult, if not impossible, to understand the attitude of the Ulster half which drills, arms, and orates. It is also difficult to see any justification for the claim of a minority to prevent the wish of the majority of a nation from taking effect. These difficulties are not lessened byreading the speeches of the Ulster champions and of their Unionist supporters, for they, while asking for compromise, insist practically on "No Surrender." The difficulties thus intensified by the policy of all" take "no " give " are made worse by the final plea of Mr Bonars Law for a general election, the verdict of which if agbinst the claims of Ulster, otherwise for Home Rule, his people are prepared to implicitly obey. The plea admits that there is nothing unendurable in the scheme presented of Home Rule, and therefore nothing to justify the taking up of arms by one half of one Province out of four. From all of which it seems to follow that should the government, as seems probable, elect to face the position* consequences will not be what we now fear.