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‘To talk of such a compact as the disruption of the 
Empire is the sheerest absurdity. The Empire gains 
by Home Rule the freely tendered loyalty of the one 
country whose loyalty is most essential, and whose 
disloyalty has been heretofore most dangerous to its 
stability. 
While Home Rule commends itself to England as 
a pledge of Ireland’s loyalty to the Empire, to Ireland 
it offers far greater advantages than the impossible 
policy of Repeal. Grattan's Parliament was valuable 
solely because it was native and resident. The 
Home Rule Parliament will be both, but it will 
be, moreover, what Grattan’s Parliament never was, 
fully representative of the people. Above all and 
beyond all, under Home Rule there will be for the 
first time an Irish Executive responsible to Parlia- 
ment, and, therefore, responsible to the people. 
Under Grattan’s Parliament an alien Executive by 
systematic corruption controlled the Irish House of 
Commons ; under Home Rule the Irish House of 
Commons will control a native Executive. 
Grattan’s Parliament, nominally independent, was 
completely subservient to the Executive that cor- 
rupted it. The Home Rule Parliament will, so far as 
Irish affairs are concerned, be practically supreme.