Arizona republican., 1914-02-27

is really a loyalist at heart, and that i he bows to the inevitable, and ac- commodities himself as best he can. to the inscrutable decrees of parlia- ment, as his acceptance of the Irish church bill proved.
 The Ulsterman who argues thus i will. Of course, be told that he is wIong. and that desperate deeds are really in preparation this time. He can only reply that apart from his confidence in the good will of Irish men to lrishmen there are very CO., gent reasons why the four counties should even object to being separat- ed from the rest of Ireland For Ul- ! ster cannot do without the rest of Ireland. Her banks need the con- siant streams of gold that flows i from the south and west to finance i the trade of Belfast. If. the provi- sional government were set up, and ] there were danger of civil war, the nationalist farmers would withdraw | tiNii iiichOS iipiii Ci'tCi' ->o oiiS could blame them for doing so. The result would be an immediate paral- ysis of the trade of Belfast, and it 1 was the knowledge of this fact that prevented the bankers of Belfast l from attending the meeting of busi- ness men that was held the other day under the covenanters' flag. : They have other use for their money than that of financing a provisional 1 government and they know that if the Orangemen took the field an ir- reparable blow would be dealt to the industry of the north. This view is widely held in business circles, how ever opposed individual business men may be to home rule. and the Prot estant tradesman who does not wish to lose his Catholic customers whis- IerS in their ears that he does not in the least intend to shoulder rifle, although he may be taking ; hand in the drilling.
 Nor does the average Protestant vho is engaged in trade wish to see the four northeastern counties sepa- rated from the rest of Ireland and
 
 the foreign ale" For he fears that this will mean disruption of all the ties that bind the Protestant north | to the Catholic south. Perhaps be- meath all this talk against home rule he feels that he is an Irishman. and would rather stand with his fellow cCuntlymen under an Irish parlia ment than be governed from White hall. He does not want home rule | but separation with home rule for the rest Of Ireland is even less to his taste An interesting proof of this feeling was given when Trinity col lege secured the withdrawal of the amendment which the government had accepted, cutting it out of the home rule bill. Mr Campbell who lad pleaded for the amendment. was obliged to ask for it's excision. in a later stage of the bill.
 One of the real points at issue is the question of appointments. The Protestants really believe that all civil posts will be filled with Catho- jority in a Dublin parliament It is useless for the nationalists to deny that they have any such intentions: the fact that Catholics have for so long been excluded from appoint ments in the north of Ireland, and indeed until lately have not had their share of appointments in the govern 1 hent Of Ireland makes the Protest
 ants, who have anything to lose in this respect, extremely app, ehensive.
 How this fear might be removed to some extent if civil service com
 mission were set up by the Irish executive, and the nationalists would have no objection to this. This
 would place Catholic and Protestant , on basis of equality. for all ap-
 pointments would then be filled by
 Cren competition. If this plan were
 suggested to the Protestants they
 would probably reject it. But in the
 end they may demand it themselves
 for it is certain that no fairer scheme could be evolved, and ta
 suggest that they should retain com
 plete control over appointments
 would hardly square with the argu-
 ment that they demand no ascend f ancy. There is apparently no de . mand in Ulster for separate treat
 ment as far as education is con- cerned, for there is no education
 question in Ireland. Catholics and Protestants have their separate schools-the two systems do not conflict. But should a guarantee be , required that the Protestant schools
 shall be left under Protestant conrol
 no nationalist would object to giv-
 ing this. Nor, indeed, are the na-
 tionalists adverse to a special appeal