It will draw the great personalities of industry for the first time into the central current of public affairs.

It will furnish them with a platform upon which they will have to talk in terms of the plough, the loom, and the ledger, and not in terms of the wolf-dog and the orange-lily, and will render fruitful for the service of the country innumerable talents, now unknown or estranged by political superstitions.

It will do all that State action can do to generate a boom in Irish enterprises, and to tempt Irish capital into them in a more abundant stream.

And the proceedings and conclusions of such a body, circulated broadcast somewhat after the Washington plan, will provide for all classes in the community a liberal education in Economics.

Will "Ulster" fight against such an attempt to increase its prosperity?
Will the shipbuilders, the spinners, and the weavers close down their works in order to patronise Sir Edward Carson's performance on a pop-gun?
It is not probable.
Work is the best remedy against such vapours, and an Ireland, occupied in this fashion-with wealth-producing labour, will have no time for civil war or "religious" riots.
As for concrete projects, the Irish Parliament will not be able to begin on a very ambitious scale.