#OnThisDay 1920 Edward Carson said to Orangemen warning the British Government’
“You are yourselves unable to protect us from the machinations of Sinn Féin … we will take matters into our own hands” and states “We must proclaim today clearly that … we in Ulster will tolerate no Sinn Féin – no Sinn Féin organisation, no Sinn Féin methods … And these are not mere words. I hate words without action.”
Many English newspapers, like the Times supported him.
The Irish at War 