S Rule, has, through its Washington correspondent, collected a vast body of evidence in favour of an Irish settlement. Here is a summary of the conclu- sions at which he has himself arrived :— “ The future of the world, in the opinion of most far- sighted Americans, depends upon the closest co-operation between the two great Anglo-Saxon democracies. There are many obstacles that will have to be overcome before that co-operation can be reached; . . . but, as things stand, the worst of all these obstacles may easily be the Irish question. This not only because of the direct poli- tical influence of Irish irreconcilables. This is considerable, but it might be overcome. It is because Americans in general are Home Rulers. They are inclined to attribute the tragedy of our relations with Ireland to the same John Bullish stupidity that produced the American Revolution.” England can no longer ignore the opinion of the whole civilised world, especially the opinion of America, to whom she is bound by so many ties. Still less can she ignore the professions of her Allies, and of herself, that they are waging war for the liberation of small nations. She cannot persist in the face of the protests of her friends and the taunts of her enemies in forcing a foreign domination on Ireland. She cannot deny to Ireland the freedom for which she is fighting with such desperate energy, and with such limitless expenditure of blood and treasure, for other small nationalities. Ireland is as well deserving of liberty as the Poles, the Belgians, the Serbians, the Roumanians, the Montenegrins, the Slavs, the Czechs, and the Slovacs. There is, moreover, this vital distinction: the other small nations must wait for their liberation till the end of the war : it is in the sole power of the British Par- liament to establish forthwith self-government in Ireland.