THE HALLUCINATION OF "ULSTER" Ulster Unionism, in the leaders, is not so much a programme of ideas as a demand for domination.

In the rank and file it is largely a phenomenon of hysteria.

I do not know whether my readers have ever participated in an agreeable game known as odd man out.

Each player tosses a penny, and whoever disagrees with the rest, showing a head to their tails or vice versa, captures the pool.

Such is in all essential particulars the "Ulster Question." We find ourselves there in presence of a minority which, on the sole ground that it is a minority, claims that in the government of Ireland it shall be not merely secure but supreme.