How is the modification to be obtained?
How is Home Rule to be made a reality?
By one method only: that is, by the freest use of those arts Of intrigue and obstruction by which Home Rule will have been gained.

But for the carrying out of such a policy the agitators and intriguers who for the last twenty years have weakened and degraded the Imperial Parliament are the proper agents.

For this work they, and they alone, are fit.

The quiet, industrious, stay-at-home merchants or lawyers, who might be sent to Dublin for a month or two in the year to manage Irish business on business-like principles, will not be sent to Westminster to hold the balance between English parties.

They cannot leave their every-day work; were they willing to forsake their own business, they are not the men to conduct with success the parliamentary game of brag, obstruction, and finesse.