Language of this kind has very naturally frightened the English
Liberals. Lord Kilcoursie, the Gladstonian Member for South Somerset, who is of course an avowed Home-ruler, writes to Tuesday's Daily News in undisguised alarm at Mr. Dillon's Sunday speech. "The mandate," he says, "which I obtained 'from my constituents to vote for Home-rule in June last was on the distinct understanding that there should be a blessed -oblivion of the past,' to use Mr. Gladstone's own words. If a -deliberate policy of revenge on all landlords and bailiffs who decline to act with the Land League, as well as on the police and officers of the law' (who in what they do are simply obeying orders), is to be the policy of the Home-rule Govern- ment in Ireland, whenever granted, I think there will be reason to pause. At least let us ask for some explanation of the -embarrassing speech alluded to. Pat shortly, my own position is very clear. If Mr. Dillon's speech at Castlereagh is understood to be the settled and deliberate opinion of the Irish Party, as well as a correct exposition of its future policy, I cannot again vote for Home-rule, and I know I do not stand alone."
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