Ibid.
This Committee Room was the scene of the desertion of Parnell by the majority of his former followers.
'The crime of the Land League was a trifle compared to the crime of the landlords.'—Mr. Sexton, April 20, 1893, Times Parliamentary Debates, p. 525.
Bryce, American Commonwealth (1st ed.), ii. pp. 190, 191.
Compare ibid. ii. p. 618.
'Carnot me dit avec cette niaiserie que les démocrates honnêtes ne manquent guère de mêler à leur vertu: "Croyez-moi, mon cher collègue, il faut toujours se fier au peuple." Je me rappelle que je lui répondis assez brusquement: "Eh! que ne me disiez-vous cela la veille du 15 mai?"'—Souvenirs de Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 196.
The whole gist of this chapter applies to the state of England in 1911 with greater force than even to its condition in 1893. Home Rule will be carried, if at all, only by a House of Commons freed from the authority of the House of Lords, and from the need of an appeal to the people.
Now sixty-one years.
If any one wishes to see the difference between local self-government and Home Rule, let him compare the Bill for the extension of self-government in Ireland, brought in by the late Ministry, with the Home Rule Bill. The Local Government Bill went very far, some persons may even maintain dangerously far, in creating and in extending the authority of local bodies in Ireland. But it was not Home Rule, or anything like Home Rule. The most extended Local Government Bill and the most restricted Home Rule Bill differ fundamentally in principle. The one in effect denies, the other in effect concedes, a separate national government to Ireland.
See pp. 119-121, ante.