{ 15 1] ‘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.