[ 3 ] “ Civilisation,” he concludes, “itself seems to be in the balance, but right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the thing which we have always carried nearest our hearts— } “For Democracy. “For the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Government. “For the rights and liberties of Small Nations.” The English Government was slow to realise the international importance of the Irish question or the necessity for putting its own professions into practice. When the question was raised some little time ago in Parliament the Premier replied by a non possumus. He suggested dismemberment of the country as the only practical solution. Home Rule for all Ireland, he declared, was impossible so long as any section of Ulster objected. Mr. Lloyd George resented indignantly the sug- gestion of Mr. Dillon that he was “going back on Home Rule; was abandoning his own principles and professions ;” but Mr. Dillon was abundantly justified by the record of the Premier. It was Home Rule for all Ireland that Mr. Lloyd George, as a distinguished member of the Liberal Government, helped to pass into law. It was for that he spoke and voted. He was a member of the Cabinet which successfully opposed two motions in the House of Commons for the exclusion of any portion in Ulster. “Evil communications,” says the copy book, “cor- rupt good manners.” When the Premier, sitting between Sir Edward Carson and Mr. Bonar Law, emphasised his refusal to put the people of Ulster “under the heel ” of the Nationalists, he was echoing an Orange shibboleth which he must have known to be absurd. It is probable he regretted the phrase the moment he uttered it. He has over and over again voted for the inclusion of the whole of Ulster in the Home Rule Act, and he has constantly main-