The New York herald., 1921-08-20
ULSTER LACKS FAITH
IN BRITISH PREMIER
Adopts Waiting Attitude in
Regard to Settlement OF
Irish Question.
LEADERS URGE CAUTION
Belfast's Nerves Raw From
Years of Beating Orange
Drums.
LEADERS URGE CAUTION
BOYCOTT NOW RESENTED
Would Approve Arrangement
Not Involving Secession or
Union With South.

Not Involving Secession or
Union With South.
Special Gable 70 THE NEW YoRK HERaLp
Copyright, 1921, by TIE NEW York HERALD.
BELFAST. Aug. 19.-Ulster's position
can be likened to a suffering patient
in a dentists waiting room. She may
bolt or she may enter the operating
room. But reason, represented by her
soundest political leaders and busi-
ness men, counsels that IL is at least
better to wait and see how bad the
pain will be, Moreover Ulster has no
confidence in the dentist--Premier
Lloyd George-and Ulster is deter
mined that whatever he says she
won't have her own teeth pulled
As far as can be judged from the
street and from the newspapers, nc
| counts of cannon de Valera's speeches
and the Dahl Eircann's proceedings
are read here only as a sure sign of
! further and more serious trouble.
| There is plenty of wild talk-from
threats to wreck the Lloyd George
Government TO the declaration that
Ulster is willing to meet the South at
| Boyne River again or in the hills
above Newry and fight it out in the
| field.
Urged IN s.Sit Tfuht.o
But the most powerful leaders are
openly cornselling that the best thing to
do is to sit tight and await events.
\ Hard headed Belfast business men for
the first time are admitting that some
/ sacrifice may be wise in order to permit
the South ireland leaders TO assuage the
sentimental demands of their followers,
provided that sacrifice does not involve
Bclfast's allegiance to the Crown and
does not jeopardize Belfast's hard won
and hard held accumulation OF material
wealth.
| All sorts of men smile grimly when
informed that the disposition In Dublin
| seems to be let Ulster alone until her
own good time. Murder and robbery
and bloodshed may induce us to take
our own good time was the invariable
4 comment of those who counsel caution
as we'll as those counselling violence as
\ listers policy.
Belfasts nerves, dental and other
wise, are raw from years of beating
Orange drums and for months they have
carefully fed on the horror of Twins
next to the "savages south Of the Boyns''
and the closer homelike Ballymacarrett
Falls road Hence. while listers In
telectual men like II. NJ. Pollock, Minis
ter of Finance; Lord Londonderry and
Lord Pirrie. head Of the Harlan-Wolff
firm might try to urge Ulster to go into
the operating room of conference and
| concession. they realize that the patients
nerves just at this Juncture make deli
cate "bridgework'' highly dangerous
both for the patient and the operator.
For Ulster can still bite.
object 10 "Papist Thumb"
visitor cannot talk to three men in
the lowest pub or at the exclusive Re
form Club without being reminded Of
1 that Among these men here who are
genuinely anxious for peace the ap-
parent willingness of Sim Fein TO let
the Ulster matter rest for the moment IS
cordially welcomed. Among others it is
received with an attitude of watchful
suspicion. No class in Belfast has con-
fidence in the present leaders OF Sim
Fein. The rank and hle-whose SEN
timental preoccupations certainly are no
less violent than Sim Feins own-glows
fiercely over any prospect of being put
beneath the "Papist thumb"
Cooler headed leaders who would like
to accept settlement say frankly that
listers material prosperity cannot be
submitted 10 economists so mad ms to
resort to an Ulster boycott. as have the
Dali Eireann leaders. II the killing OF
Mrs. Lindsay added years of fuel to the
blazing hate OF Orangemen. the state
ment made before the Dali Elreann by
Minister OF Labor McDonough, that the
boycott resulted In more bankruptcy in
Belfast than has been known within
living memory. piled a Pelion of mis-
trust upon the business mems Ossa OF
suspicion. They say that investigate
shows that there have been only six
bankruptcies in all Ulster since the boy
colt and only two In Ulster itself, one
case being that OF wholly unknown
merchant and the other that of small
italian vender OF leo cream.
Ulster Wants Privileges.
III Lloyd George and De Valera can
/ reach a settlement neither involving
Irish secession from the Empire nor
lfnDcIlllHb GiStcT own DTlVlcEsS.
Ulster will approve. Furthermore, she
will ask Great Britain for the same cx-
tension OF privileges 70 hereslf az may
be won by the South. But further than
that Ulster won't 60 as yet toward
uniting with the South except through
the present Home Rule Act council of
all ireland In which listers six counties
have the same voice as the twenty six
Southern counties. Failing in that
agreement Ulster will 90 on in her own
way. taking her own measures 70 pro-
tect her southern border and dema nding
the full force OF the crown to help her
In that protection.
Even II an agreement Is reached per-
hitting the Irish Republican army to
remain in existence under guise OF q
militia. Ulster will insist on the same
privilege. She will not take any chances
on an Invasion. Those who consent 20
discuss the possibility OF Ulster being
induced ultimately to join the South
after a settlelnent--and they are few
unite in declaring that economic pres
sure upon Ulster by the South IL at the
| same time both fltfle and wicked