Lord Rosebery announced with wise foresight that Home Rule in Ireland could hardly be established with benefit to the United Kingdom until the assent thereto of the predominant partner had been obtained by force of argument.

The idea was grounded on common sense.

Will it not suggest to Irish Nationalists that their moment of authority must be used for obtaining far greater privileges for Ireland than the extravagant political power offered by Gladstonians in 1893?
Is it not natural for Home Rulers to think that the predominant partner ought to be deprived of his predominance?
The conduct of the Coalition and some of its leaders points in this direction.

They will have obtained through the Parliament Act temporary, but strictly unlimited and dictatorial, power.

They will have obtained it by intrigue; they have rejected and treated with scorn the idea of an appeal to the people.