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Like Mr. J. Allan, Honorary Secretary of the 
Ulster Unionist Council, I have had the opportunity 
of discussing the question with many Unionists, and 
I have never yet met a single one who favoured the 
policy of exclusion. 
The dismemberment of Ireland, as we have seen, 
has been condemned on its merits both by Sir 
Edward Carson and by the Unionist Press. It would 
be fatal to the prosperity of the excluded counties 
and cities, marooned at the extremity of an alien 
Ireland. Their prosperous industries are financed 
by the great Ulster banks, “The Belfast,” “ The 
Northern,” and “The Ulster.” The Belfast Bank 
has three offices in Dublin, the Northern three, 
and the Ulster four. All those banks have scores 
of branch offices and agencies scattered through 
the provincial towns of Leinster, Munster, and 
Connaught. The segregation of six Ulster counties 
from the rest of Ireland would be a disastrous 
blow, not merely to the prosperity of the Ulster 
banks, but to the system of credit on which Ulster 
industries depend. 
Belfast and Derry have a large and profitable 
wholesale trade in the south, east, and west: that 
trade could hardly survive the exclusion of Belfast 
and Derry from a self-governed Ireland. 
The Ulster members of the Irish Bar, even the 
most prominent Unionists who sit for Unionist con- 
stituencies are, as I have reason to know, strongly 
and unanimously opposed to the policy of exclusion, 
Heretofore they have secured at least their fair share 
of legal practice and patronage. They bitterly resent 
the prospect of banishment from the Four Courts of 
Dublin. 
Sir James Campbell would, I fancy, be rather re- 
luctant to abandon the position of Lord Chief Justice 
of Ireland to preside in the Supreme Court of the six 
counties,