Mr.Bonar Law launched on the House of Commons a new and sinister suggestion.
"What about the Army?
If it is only a question of disorder, the Army I am sure will obey you, and I am sure that it ought to obey you; but if it really is a question of civil war, soldiers are citizens like the rest of us." Sir Edward rose immediately the Prime Minister had replied to Mr.Bonar Law, and his speech was furious.

"In consequence of the trifling with this subject by the Prime Minister and the provocation, which he has endorsed, by the First Lord of the Admiralty last Saturday, I feel I ought not to be here but in Belfast," he said; and he indicated his intention of proceeding there as soon as he had spoken.

What he had to say chiefly concerned the Army, and the preparations which were being made at the War Office for the despatch of troops to Ulster.

He suggested that there was the intention to provoke an attack so that there might be "pretext for putting them down." "You will be all right.

You will be no longer cowards.