Positive treason, such as the proclamation of Provisional Governments, would of course pay a higher rate.

All these would be most interesting experiments, and would add a picturesque touch to the conventionality of modern administration.
But if we were to overtax sugar or coffee, corn or butter, flax or wool, beer or spirits, land or houses, I fear that we should be beating ourselves rather severely with our own sticks.

Our revenge on "Ulster" would be rather like that of Savage, the poet, who revenged himself on a friend by sleeping out the whole of a December night on a bridge.

The whole suggestion is, of course, futile and fantastic.

It is a bubble that has been pricked, and by no one so thoroughly as by Lord Pirrie, the head of Harland and Wolff, that is to say the leader of the industrial North.
The clamour of the exploiters of "Ulster" is motived on this point by two considerations, the one an illusion, the other a reality.