Brandy is good, and water is good; but when a neighbour asks for a glass of spirits, it is mockery to tender a glass of water on the ground that both spirits and water are drink.

The benevolent person who makes the offer must not wonder if he receives no thanks.
[Sidenote: National Independence.] Home Rule does not mean National Independence.

This proposition needs no elaboration.

Any plan of Home Rule whatever implies that there are spheres of national life in which Ireland is not to act with the freedom of an independent State.

Mr.Parnell and his followers accept in principle Mr.Gladstone's proposals, and therefore are willing to accept for Ireland restrictions on her political liberty absolutely inconsistent with the principle of nationality.