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il the form affirmed by the Commons. /
believe that the most judicious course
has been taken, and regarding the whole
situation with what experience have, /
say that, considering the circumstances,
and weighing all the obstacles, the Libz
| eral party, upon the question Of Home
Rule, have proceeded with all the dill
gence, with all the good faith, with all
the energy that circumstances rendered
possible, and that they proceeded in the
mode most likely to secure the earliest
and most sure success. Before con-
clude, I wish to say that the Liberals
have done something more thar proceed
upon the Home Rule question. They
appointed the Evicted Tenants Commits
sion. and in the second Of their two ses-
sions, having dealt with the financial
business of the year, and with that at
fecting the whole of Great Britain and
Ireland, they passed through the House
of Commons the Ev1cted Tenants Bill
not perfect bill. Few bills are perfect,
and think the character OF perfection
could hardly be attributed to any British
bill for Ireland, but at any rate it was 9
bill, even as it stood, which would have
settled nine tenths Of the evicted ten
ants question at once, and the rest OF it
in little time The Lords threw out
the bill. The Government are no more
to blame for the act of the Lords on that
bill than they are for the act of the Lords
upon the greater and m re important
measure The Government have de-
clared the Evicted Tenants Bill to be ur-
gent-to be necessary in the interests OF
the Government of Ireland, and that be.
ing so, it will be their duty again at the
earliest practicable date to challenge the
judgment of the Lords upon it. The
Government have done more-they have
appointed a committee to examine the
whole Irish land question.
That bill will be brought before the
House of Commons in the Forthcoming
session. I believe it will be found that
! it will be swept through the House OF
Commons by majority sufficient to per-
suade the Lords, especially under the
pressure of the impending general cleo
ton. that the wisest course for them will
be, with all possible speed, to pass that
bill into law.
There is only one dark cloud in our
sky, only one danger threatens. We hear
murmurings and threatenings of dissen-
sion that every Iriehman will take to his
heart. The force of your motto is that
|"Unity is strength" We are told in let
tors and speeches that Ireland will be
asked to return a majority to support
one man or his policy or his views. /
| will name no man. will not attribute
to any man an unpatriotic intention; but
I will say, and especially after recent ex-
periences, do not believe that Ireland
ever will return q majority to support
any man or the views of the policy Of
any man. Ireland believes that there is
safety in multitude Of counsellors. Ire.
land will adhere to the course through
which her cause has been advanced
through many. difficulties and through
many trials. I will not at the present
stage attribute to any one the intention
to do anything against the interest of
the country, but if 1t were possible that
the representatives of the people who
have been faithful to their mandate,
faithful in the House of Commons, faith
full to the country, should be attacked
and threatened with expulsion from pub
lie life because they have sustained the
chairman ct the party, the committee OF
the party and the party itself, then 1 say
that the country, SO far from sustaining
anv attack upon such men, or rallying to
their side, that such an attack could not
fail to recoil upon any one who would
make it. I trust, therefore, that public
opinion will declare itself with no uncer-
tain sound that the people will indicate
their determination that the oonstitu-
encies shall freely return in consultation
with the Irish party the best men that
they can find; that these men, each act
ing upon his conscience and independent
Judgment, shall determine the questions
that come before them in the Irish party;
that these questions when they are de-
termined, that the judgment shall be &C.
copied by every man Of that party and
that the party in future, as in It's most
glorious times in the past, shall 60 for
ward as q united party. Fellow-country-
men, the last and most critical stage of
the National cause is near--the stage,