The passing of Lord Carson is a tragic event which had been dis~ counted in advance, not merely be. Jeause of his earlier serious illness but because he had virtually abandoned public life. A brilliant advocate, Lord Carson attained to high office and achieved much worldly success, but he will be remembered as a staunch loyalist to strongly held political principles. Those convictions hapened to attach him to a party with Which on other matters he had little real sympathy. He was not a Cone [servative, except in so far as he found in that party his chief support for his Unionist creed. "Unfaltering couc~ age was his; if it led him to the brick of defiance of the constitutionlism, which in other respects, he tenaciously upheld, he managed to retain the esteem of opponents and supporters alike. Of his triumphs in the profession which he adorned, much has been said. In a sense, like his younger and no less brilliant comrade, the late Lord Birkenhead, he may rank with the statesmen who falled to reach the highest plane to which their ability, talents and early promise entitled them to look. The failure, by Lord Carson at all events, 35 deliberately invited for the sale of what he regarded were inviolable principles of equity and justice. On that note tribute to him may well rest.
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