Home Rule would be the signal for a ghastly civil war, ruinous to Ireland, and fatal to that spirit of religious toleration by which the Roman Catholics and the Protestants have obtained equal rights of citizenship under the rule of the Queen and the Imperial Parliament. The cultured Roman Catholics of England and Ireland look with pain and regret at the insensate bigotry and domineering intolerance which made the exposures in County Meath possible. They see in these wild claims of absolutism in the domain of temporal as well as spiritual affairs, a grave danger to all pure religion. They perceive that the revival of the old sectarian passions in Ireland cannot fail to react on Great Britain, and even if the Keltic priesthood triumphed over the Ulster Protestants their victory would be a fatal one to all who hold by the Roman Catholic faith in England. Home Rule would bring misery and disaster in its train, and even the Parnellite section of the Irish people, who have shaken off clerical domination, tremble at the prospect of it while nine-tenths of their co-religionists are destitute of personal freedom. We must find the solution of Ireland's disaffection in another way, and mainly by a bold handling of the agrarian question, which lies at the root of all. The task before the Unionist party is not a light one. They must crush the Nationalist conspiracy, and uproot the fantastic hopes which unscrupulous men have implanted in the minds of an ignorant and credulous people. They must extend the noble system of practical aid to Ireland so successfully inaugurated by Mr. Balfour in his light railway, fishery, and agricultural development schemes. And they must mitigate the friction between owners and occupiers of the soil by making it easy and profitable for tenants and landlords alike to avail themselves of British credit in terminating a relationship which has been fraught with occasions of bitter hostility and mistrust. Under such a policy we can see bright prospects of a happy future for the sister island, but under the policy of Home Rule we see only the lowering clouds of civil war and the dark shadows of reawakened religious animosity.
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| [No. 1.—The Spirit of the Capital] | Dublin, March 28th | 1 |
| [No. 2.—Panic and Disaster] | Dublin, March 30th | 7 |
| [No. 3.—Ulster's Preparations for War] | Belfast, April 1st | 13 |
| [No. 4.—Mr. Balfour's Welcome] | Belfast, April 4th | 20 |
| [No. 5.—Has Mr. Morley Lied?] | Ballymena, April 6th | 27 |
| [No. 6.—The Exodus of Industry] | Dublin, April 8th | 34 |
| [Mr. Balfour in Dublin] | Dublin, April 8th | 40 |
| [No. 7.—Bad for England, Ruinous to Ireland] | Limerick, April 11th | 43 |
| [No. 8.—Terrorism at Tipperary] | Tipperary, April 12th | 48 |
| [No. 9.—Tyranny and Terrorism] | Oolagh, Co. Tipperary, April 15th | 54 |
| [No. 10.—Defying the Land League] | Cork, April 20th | 61 |
| [No. 11.—The Cry for Peace and Quietness] | Tralee, Co. Kerry, April 20th | 67 |
| [No. 12.—English Ignorance and Irish Perversity] | Limerick, April 22nd | 75 |
| [No. 13.—The Curse Of County Clare] | Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, April 24th | 81 |
| [No. 14.—Lawlessness and Laziness] | Killaloe, Co. Clare, April 27th | 89 |
| [No. 15.—The Peril to English Trade] | Ennis, Co. Clare, April 29th | 96 |
| [No. 16.—Civil War in County Clare] | Bodyke, Co. Clare, May 2nd | 102 |
| [No. 17.—Rent at the Root of Nationalism] | Bodyke, Co. Clare, May 2nd | 109 |
| [No. 18.—Hard Facts for English Readers] | Gort, Co. Galway, May 6th | 116 |
| [No. 19.—Indolence and Improvidence] | Athenry, Co. Galway, May 6th | 123 |
| [No. 20.—Religion at the Bottom of the Irish Question] | Tuam, Co. Galway, May 9th | 128 |
| [No. 21.—Mr. Balfour's Fisheries] | Galway Town, May 13th | 135 |
| [No. 22.—The Land League's Reign at Loughrea] | Loughrea, May 16th | 142 |
| [No. 23.—The Reign of Indolence] | Salthill, May 18th | 149 |
| [No. 24.—The Aran Islands] | Galway, May 20th | 156 |
| [No. 25.—The Priests and Outrage] | Moycullen, Connemara, May 23rd | 163 |
| [No. 26.—The Connemara Railway] | Oughterard, Connemara, May 23rd | 169 |
| [No. 27.—Cultivating Irish Industry] | Athenry, May 27th | 177 |
| [No. 28.—Could we Reconquer Ireland?] | Barna, Co. Galway, May 30th | 184 |
| [No. 29.—What Rack-Rent Means] | Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, June 1st | 190 |
| [No. 30.—The "Union of Hearts"] | Athlone, June 3rd | 197 |
| [No. 31.—The "Union of Hearts"] | Westport, June 6th | 203 |
| [No. 32.—Home Rule and Irish Immigration] | Castlebar, June 8th | 209 |
| [No. 33.—Tuam's Indignation Meeting] | Ballina, June 10th | 217 |
| [No. 34.—Why Ireland does not Prosper] | Oughewall, June 10th | 223 |
| [No. 35.—In a Congested District] | Newport, Co. Mayo, June 15th | 230 |
| [No. 36.—Irish Improvidence the Stumbling Block] | Mulranney, Co. Mayo, June 17th | 237 |
| [No. 37.—On Achil Island] | Achil Sound, June 20th | 244 |
| [No. 38.—The Achil Islanders] | Dugort, Achil Island, June 22nd | 251 |
| [No. 39.—Irish Unfitness for Self-Government] | Castlereagh, June 24th | 259 |
| [No. 40.—Object Lessons in Irish Self-Government] | Roscommon, June 27th | 265 |
| [No. 41.—The Changed Spirit of the Capital] | Dublin, June 29th | 271 |
| [No. 42.—At a Nationalist Meeting] | Dundalk, July 1st | 279 |
| [No. 43.—In the Prosperous North] | Newry, July 4th | 285 |
| [No. 44.—The Prosperous North] | Armagh, July 6th | 291 |
| [No. 45.—A Picture of Romish "Toleration"] | Monaghan, July 8th | 298 |
| [No. 46.—A Bit of Foreign Opinion] | Enniskillen, July 11th | 304 |
| [No. 47.—The Loyalists and the Lawless] | Clones, July 13th | 310 |
| [No. 48.—A Search for "Orange Rowdyism"] | Belfast, July 15th | 317 |
| [No. 49.—The Constitution of the Orange Lodges] | Portadown, July 18th | 324 |
| [No. 50.—The Hollowness of Home Rule] | Warrenpoint, July 20th | 331 |
| [No. 51.—The Irish Press on "Finality"] | Strabane, July 22nd | 337 |
| [No. 52.—How the Priests Control the People] | Raphoe, Co. Donegal, July 25th | 345 |
| [No. 53.—What they think in County Donegal] | Stranorlar, Co. Donegal, July 27th | 351 |
| [No. 54.—A Sample of Irish "Loyalty"] | Killygordon, July 29th | 358 |
| [No. 55.—A Truly Patriotic Priest] | Donegal, August 1st | 365 |
| [No. 56.—Do-Nothing Donegal] | Donegal, August 3rd | 371 |
| [No. 57.—Barefooted and Dilatory] | Ballyshannon, August 5th | 378 |
| [No. 58.—The Truth about Bundoran] | Sligo, August 8th | 383 |
| [No. 59.—Irish Nationalism is not Patriotism] | Birmingham, August 11th | 390 |
| [No. 60.—Land Hunger: its Cause, Effect, and Remedy] | Birmingham, August 14th | 396 |
| [No. 61.—Clerical Domination and its Consequences] | Birmingham, August 16th | 403 |
| [No. 62.—Civil War a certainty of Home Rule] | Birmingham, August 18th | 409 |
