There is a gentle courtesy in the type of argument which suggests that because someone does not ayres with someone else it is his right and privilege 10 indulge in abuse. satisfactory to know that 'Tsingtao is now s0 quiet that Larix, whose letter appeared in yes erday's issue, has the time to boll with' in-@ignation over this journal's comment on. the subject of the recent Anglo-Irish negotiations. He seems to agree with the late Mr. Augustine Birrell's obiter dictum that "Minorities must and that in this case it must be the Unionists in Ireland. The fact of the matter ionists who have remained Toyal in the majority in North the two divisions. of the Island united they would be in the minority, and that isa position which they do not care to accept.- They cannot be blamed for think ing that an age to: sympathize with the and thatthe wealth draw interests the
of the That may be y sells, and, certainly if all the Implications of Latin' letter are to be accepted, narrow view to take. But the fact is that they cake i. They have been loyal to Britain as has already been shown, and Brituin's altitude that she will not consent 10 the proposed Univn, until Norther Ireland herself consents, is. the only Possible recompense which can be made for Such Adelity. That good faith should be returned for good faith is surely the most perfect logie, even if it happens to be of that Anglo-Saxon quality. which Lavin appears to think so quaint. And if in urging such an action this journal has to bear the reproach of "narrow-minded bigotry" it will willingly do so, in the assurance that, in this instance at least, Anglo-Saxon logic is a finer quality than the correspondent's latinity.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.