This confidence improved discipline.

The Lodges and the Clubs and the general body of shipyard and other workers had less temptation to take matters into their own hands; they were content to wait for instructions from headquarters now that they could trust their leaders to give the necessary instructions at the proper time.
The net result, therefore, of an expedition which was designed to expose the hollowness and the weakness of the Ulster case was to augment the prestige of the Ulster leaders and the self-confidence of the Ulster people, and to make both leaders and followers understand better than before the strength of the position in which they were entrenched.
FOOTNOTES: [14] See _ante_, p.

38.
[15] _The Times_, January 18th, 1912.
[16] _The Times_, January 26th, 1912.
[17] _The Standard_, January 18th, 1912.
[18] _The Saturday Review_, January 27th, 1912.
[19] _The Times_, January 20th, 1912.
[20] See Interview with Mr.F.W.Warden in _The Standard_, February 8th, 1912.
[21] See Dublin Correspondent's telegram in _The Times_, January 29th, 1912..