Such as they are, I have put them into a few pages at the end of the book.
It will be found that I have touched only incidentally upon the subject of Home Rule for Ireland.

Until it shall be ascertained what "Home Rule for Ireland" means, that subject seems to me to lie quite outside the domain of my inquiries.

"Home Rule for Ireland" is not now a plan--nor so much as a proposition.

It is merely a polemical phrase, of little importance to persons really interested in the condition of Ireland, however invaluable it may be to the makers of party platforms in my own country, or to Parliamentary candidates on this side of the Atlantic.

It may mean anything or nothing, from Mr.Chamberlain's imperialist scheme of four Provincial Councils--which recalls the outlines of a system once established with success in New Zealand--to that absolute and complete separation in all particulars of the government of Ireland from the government of Great Britain, which has unquestionably been the aim of every active Irish organisation in the United States for the last twenty years, and which the accredited leader of the "Home Rule" party in the British Parliament, Mr.Parnell, is understood in America to have pledged himself that he will do anything to further and nothing to impede.