THE FATE OF ULSTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2182, 3 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE FATE OF ULSTER.

The Times, in a leading article on the 13th May, says :— " The bugbear of "coercion" is still employed to frighten unreflecting people into acquiescence in, Mr Gladstone's •• settlement ;" but it is becoming every day more and more clear that the' resort to force, in one form or another, will not be averted by the concession of Home Rule. An appeal to arms is the ultima ratio of peoples ; it should never be lightly invoked, and it must always involve the' 1 gravest of responsibilities. But, while we acknowledge all this" to the fullest extent, we are wholly unable to adopt the doctrine of contingent treason which Mr Hopps seems to have borrowed from Mr Morley, We commend to the notice of Mr Hopps and other English Liberals, who are trying to convince themselves that when a Home Rule Bill passes the^Protestants of Ulstei will be morally and constitutionally bound to acquiesce in the rule of a Parnellite Government in Dublin, a strikiug pamphlet entitled "Shall the loyal be deserted and the disloyal set over them T written by the Rev William Arthur, a well-known leader of the Methodists. Mr Arthur addresses his appeal especially to Liberals and Nonconformists. He shows what lister has to expect from a Parnellite Government, and bears witness to , the deep-seated and growing sentiment of antagonism to that fate which no denunciations of civil war can i get rid of. Mr Morley, as Mr Arthur reminds us, has said that Ulster "is strong enough to take caro of herself." What does this mean ? It it means anything, it comes to what Mr Chamberlain i saya in his letter to Mr Bolton :—*'The { fate of this province is in the hands of \ its own people, and if they are really in j earnest in refusing to intrust their liber- j ties and fortune to the control of a central ] Parliament in DubliD, it is not likely that their fellow subjects in Eugland and Scotland will allow them to be coerced j iuto submission." Has Lord Randolph | Churchill said anything more than this ? j Does Mr Hopps really believe that the j German patriots who founded the TagvncUund and rose against tho Govern- ] meats set op by Napoleon, invested, as they were, with complete legality for the time, were merely traitorous disturbers of order?

" I wonder that those people who used to go to church in winter without having any fires there didn't die," remarked Mrs Litfly the other day. "They did, my •dear," serenely returned the husband from behiud hia paper, "Oh yea," said she, somewhat nettled, "of course; but I mean that it is strange they didn't die before {their appointed time. ' "People never do," replied the severe Liffly. Mrs Lifiiy looked very dignified but ventured uo further comments.