It bore fruit where Ulster Unionism had been but a barren fig-tree.

The democracy of Belfast accepted their leader.

They gave him a majority of 16 in West Belfast in 1906 and in four years they had multiplied it by forty.

The Boyne was bridged, and everything that has since happened has but added a new stay or girder to the strength of the bridge.

And not only labour but capital has passed across that estranging river to firm ground of patriotism and national unity.