The line was drawn by O'Connell and Butt, by Parnell and Gladstone.

It can be drawn to meet the circumstances of to-day by men of goodwill, after discussion and mutual adjustment.

But why not postpone the case of Ireland until a scheme of Home Rule all round either for the United Kingdom or for the whole Empire has been worked out?
We answer that Ireland comes first on grounds both of ethics and of expediency.

Through all the blackness of dismal years we have laboured to preserve the twin ideas of nationality and autonomy, and the labourer is worthy of his hire.

But a Home Rule assembly, functioning in Dublin, may well furnish the germ of a reorganisation of the Empire.