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And therefore I
say that the course we recommend--and it has been solemnly adopted
by your four hundred representatives, after mature discussion in
which every man understood what it was he was voting about--is the
only course that I know of that is possible under the circumstances
of this Province which is consistent with the maintenance of law
and order and the prevention of bloodshed."
Superficially, these words may appear boldly paradoxical; but in fact
they were prophetic, for the closest observers of the events of the next
three years, familiar with Irish character and conditions, were in no
doubt whatever that it was the disciplined organisation of the Ulster
Unionists alone that prevented the outbreak of serious disorders in the
North. There was, on the contrary, a diminution even of ordinary crime,
accompanied by a marked improvement in the general demeanour, and
especially in the sobriety, of the people.
The speaker then touched upon a question which naturally arose out of
the Craigavon policy of resistance to Home Rule.


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