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The Open Secret of Ireland

CHAPTER VIII
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A stranger dropping into the Chamber will find it spending two hours in helping to determine whether Russia is to have a Czar, and the next four hours helping to determine whether Rathmines is to have, let us say, a new sewer.

The affairs of India, involving the political welfare of three hundred millions of human beings, get one day; Egypt, that test case in international ethics, has to be content with a few scattered hours.

And, despite all this, local questions are not considered at sufficient length or with sufficient knowledge.

The parish pump is close enough to spoil St Stephen's as an Imperial Council, and yet so far away as to destroy its effectiveness as an organ of local government.
Such an assembly is clearly unfitted to function as the cerebrum of Empire.

It must be relieved of burdens which in the complexity of modern politics it is no longer able to bear.


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