Ulster's opportunity

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Identifikator:: 1878634100

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-276030

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ulster's opportunity

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Unwin

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 35 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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[ 26 ] instance, by an overwhelming majority adopted the Lloyd George proposals, “ for the temporary and pro- visional settlement of the Irish difficulty,” on the express ground that ‘in view of all the circumstances of the present situation in Ireland they offer the best means of carrying on the fight for a United Seif- governed Ireland.” With the national acceptance of proposals formu- lated with the full consent of a Coalition Cabinet, Home Rule has, by common consent, become inevit- able. Even Lord Selborne, while protesting against immediate action, declared, “It is quite clear in my mind that the welfare of the whole United Kingdom demands that Home Rule should be given a fair trial” Mr. Bonar Law, Mr, Balfour, and Sir Edward Carson, Mr. Long and Lord Landsdowne, have con- fessed that Home Rule now on the Statute Book cannot be repealed. The long battle is over, the victory won in the face of strenuous resistance and repeated defeats. The eloquent words of Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons in 1886, spoken on the very eve of fore- seen and inevitable defeat, have proved prophetic. “You have wealth [he said], you have rank, you have station. What have we? We think we have the people’s heart, we believe and know we have the promise of the harvest of the future. I believe there is in the breast of every man who means to vote against us to-night a pro- found misgiving, approaching even to a deep conviction that the end will be as we foresee it, and not as you do, that the ebbing tide is with you and the flowing tide is with us.” Mr. Gladstone’s statesmanship has triumphed, the issue is no longer Home Rule or no Home Rule; that question has been finally decided. The issue is now a united or a dismembered Ireland. Mr. Lloyd George's latest proposal was an improve- ment on that which went before. It proposed a

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