Between these two forces there will be no place for a Constitutional party or for men like myself.
"That would be the effect in Ireland.

What would be the effect throughout the Empire?
"I have close relations with statesmen of all parties in all the Dominions, and I am informed that twenty-five per cent, of their troops are of Irish birth or of Irish parents, and that they have practically joined because they believed the Irish problem was as good as settled.
"What has happened about Ireland has caused untold difficulties in every Dominion.

Mr.Holman, the Prime Minister of New South Wales, said that conscription was defeated by the Irish vote.

Mr.Hughes said the same.
Two hundred thousand troops have been lost to the Empire by the feeling of disgust at the failure to settle the Irish question.

It has been the same in Canada.