Now the gravest flaw of the new constitution, the disease from which it is certain to perish, is that, in opposition to the forces which ultimately must determine the destiny of the United Kingdom, it renders the strong elements of the community subordinate to the weak.
In Ireland Dublin is made supreme over Belfast, the South is made not the equal, but in effect the master of the North; ignorance is given dominion over education, poverty is allowed to dispose of wealth.

If Ireland were an independent state, or even a self-governed British colony, things would right themselves.

But the politicians who are to rule in Dublin will not depend upon their own resources or be checked by a sense of their own feebleness.

They will be constitutionally and legally entitled to the support of the British army; they will constitute the worst form of government of which the world has had experience, a government which relying for its existence on the aid of an external power finds in its very feebleness support for tyranny.
Murmurs are already heard of armed resistance.

These mutterings, we are told, are nothing but bluster.