This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...said: --The noble Marquis made one remark upon the subject of Irish Home Rule with which I must confess myself in entire accord. He said that before Irish Home Rule is conceded by the Imperial Parliament England, as the predominant member of the partnership of the three kingdoms, will have to be con'vinced of its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...said: --The noble Marquis made one remark upon the subject of Irish Home Rule with which I must confess myself in entire accord. He said that before Irish Home Rule is conceded by the Imperial Parliament England, as the predominant member of the partnership of the three kingdoms, will have to be con'vinced of its justice. That may seem to be a considerable admission to make, because your lordships will know that English members of Parliament, elected for England proper, are hostile to Home Rule; but I believe that the conviction of England with regard to Home Rule depends upon one point alone, and that is the conduct of Ireland herself. I believe that if we can go on showing this clean list of agrarian crime, if we can point to the continued harmony of Ireland with the great Liberal Party in this country, if we can go on giving proofs and pledges that Ireland is entitled to be granted that boon which she has never ceased to demand since the Act of Union was passed, I believe the conversion or England will be of no slow or difficult character. The question of Home Rule is one that I view not from the point of view of Ireland only. It has to me, in the first place, the aspect that I believe that Ireland will never be contented until this measure of Home Rule be granted to her, and that, though you may come in on other issues and succeed us Who sit here, your policy of palliatives is bound to fail. In the second place, I believe that not merely have we in our Irish policy to satisfy those who live in the island of Ireland itself, encompassed, as Mr. Disraeli once said, by that melancholy ocean; we have not merely to satisfy the Irish themselves with Ireland, but, for the good of our Empire and continuity and solidity of our relations with our brethren across th..
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