My friend, Mr Barry O'Brien, in lecturing on Ireland, used to begin by recounting a very agreeable and appropriate story.

A prisoner on trial was asked whether he would accept for his case the jury which had tried the last.

He objected very vehemently.

"Well, but," said the Judge, "what is the nature of your objection?
Do you object to the panel or to the array ?" "Ah!" replied the traverser, "if you want to know, I object to the whole damned business." That is approximately our objection to the present system of government in Ireland.

But let me attempt to group under a series of somewhat arbitrary headings the "case for Home Rule," that is to say, the case for applying to Ireland the plain platitudes of constitutional freedom.
The whole matter roots in the fact of nationality.