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THE SILENCE OF MR. I CAMPBELL.

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THE SILENCE OF MR. I CAMPBELL. That stalwart of the old Orange -party, Mr. J. H. M. Campbell, K.C., M.P., devoted' a good deal of attention, at the Swansea Unionist meeting last Friday, to Sir Alfred Mond and the Leader." He also waxed indignant over Mr. Devlin's recent speech. It was a typical Ulsterian utterance, and all we need say regarding the offensive personalities in which it abounded is that Mr. Campbell sorely needs that power of self-inspection about which Robert Burns sang. His language may have been, as our contemporary says strangely, "eloquent, almost touch- ing "-the subtle distinction ought to be noted for future use—when he dwelt "on the history and simple-mindedness of the law-abiding people of Ulster," but a description of vindictive and in- tolerant speech which he applied to Mr. Devlin's address seems to us to apply also to much Mr. Campbell said. At any rate we may agree that honours are easy! But we note—and this is the hopeful thing about the speech-that he kept silence regarding the -new phase in Ulster. He may have, as our con- temporary a-gain says, filled his hearers with the conviction that to abandon his fellowmen in Ulster to the rule of the cattle mutilator, the moon- lighter, the intolerant bigot, would hrand Britain with lasting infamy, as a land that has for loyalty the reward of Judae faith but, for all that, he had no word to say concerning the change in the Ulster situation. Mr. Villiers Meager, whose recklessness of speech in political matters we are used to, talked of the new proposals as being a delusion and worthless; Mr. Campbell evidently thought the wisest policy for the present was the policy of silence. It is a hope- ful sign. The week before us will show more plainly how Mr. Asquith's con- cessions will be received, and all we need say, in the way of prediction, is that the atmosphere is clearer, and that the road to an honourable peace is easier to see. The "Spectator," for instance, declares that we may feel sure that, if Sir Edward Carson meant to advise the Ulster Council to re ject the Govern- ment's proposal even when minus the time-limit, he would have rejected the scheme out of hand and refused to SUb-! mat it. That he was willing to submit? it is proof that he will not advise i-e?? jection if the Council meets, and thaJa it will have the weight, not only of his acquiescence, but of his support as I something in all the circumstarHjeti better than civil war. This is better balking than the crude melodramatic t stuff spouted from the stage on Friday I evening. Mr. Campbell's references to thfe -Xing were of a piece with the nonsense talked by the wild men of Ulster wht m the Irish Church was disestablished. Orange loyalty is a curious thing., The monarchy and the flag are at times spoken of as sacred objects; at, others, the monarch is "warned" as tl- totijzh ho were Mr. Redmond himself. I speak plainly," said the King's counsel, who has served as the King's ,Attorney- I General in Ireland. "This is no time j for mincing matters or wordsi, and I say that we Irish loyalists deserve some- I thing better at the hands t f our King, as his gratitude to us and to our fore- fathers for what we did for him and! his predecessors than that his should be the hand to put the sea]. on the act of betrayal of a loyal p/eople." This is oratory after the maimer of 1869, I when Orange loyalty to the throne was expressed in most peculiar ways. Of, course it is empty oraim.)ry, for no one knows better than Mr Campbell that! Carnpbell that this is a constrtirfooi^al country, and! that the King rules ov ler it constitution- ally, through his mi histers. But the j whole speech—rid of "?le abuse pelted atj Mr. Asquith and his colleagues, at Mr. Devlin, Sir Alfred ??emd and ourselves, which gave it the necessary Orange atmosphere—leads us to believe that Mr. Campbell, seeing a way to peace opening, took refuge in generalities rather than say a word which might prejudice the new situation. Wherein he was wiser titan gome others who were with him upon the theatre stage. The obstacles to peace are not in Ulster, but on this side of the water, where Ire- land is regarded as but a pawn in a. bi1 game by which privilege will be restored. As Mr. Churchill said at Bradford on Saturday: "From the language which ? employed it would almost seem that wc arc face to face with a disposition on the part of some sections of the pro- prietary class to subvert Parliamentary ¡ government." And against uch al mood, wherever it manifests itself, there is, in the words of tho First Lord of the Admiralty, no lawful measure from which the Government should shrink, and there is no lawful means from which I the Government will shrink." —————

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