Lord Hugh Cecil, his gibbering and gesticulating quite forgotten, will be assuring the House next year that the Irish are so deficient in self-restraint as to be unfit for Home Rule.

Mr Smith will be deploring that intolerant temper which always impels a Nationalist to shout down, and not to argue down an opponent.

Mr Walter Long will be vindicating the cause of law and order in one sentence, and inciting "Ulster" to bloodshed in the next.
This is not hypocrisy, it is genius.

It is also, by the way, the genesis of the Irish Question.

If anyone is disposed to underrate the mad passions of which race hatred can slip the leash, let him recall the crucial examples which we have had in our own time.