But the luck was as usual against her.

Instead of wise leadership from Dublin the gods decreed that she should have for portion the hard indifference and savage taxation of Westminster.
Reduced to the position of a tributary nation, stripped of the capital that would have served as a commissariat of advance in that crucial struggle, she went down.
I am not to make here the case for Ireland in respect of over-taxation.
It was made definitely in the Report of the Childers Commission, a document which no Englishman reads, lest in coming to the light he should have his sins too sharply rebuked.

It has been developed and clarified in many speeches and essays and in some books.

To grasp it is to find your road to Damascus on the Irish Question.

But for the moment we are concerned with but one aspect, namely, the export of capital from Ireland as a result of the Union, and the economic reactions of that process.