"The chances are," the correspondent says, "that, if the question
could be decided by Canada, independent of the
exigencies of party politics, two-thirds of the Canadian people would oppose the Bill now before the British Parlia- ment." Nor is the analogy between Home Rule and Canadian provincial autonomy more readily drawn than that between Home Rule and the autonomy of the Dominion itself. Canadians perceive that a Bill which permits a Customs line and separate Post Offices provides nothing resembling the Canadian federalism of which they are so justly proud. The alleged sympathy of the self-governing colonies with Irish Nationalism has so often done service against the beliefs of Imperialists—seeming to charge them with misunderstanding their own ideals—that we are very glad to have this able and observant analysis of the Canadian feeling of to-day. The time is gone by when both Houses of the Canadian Parliament could pass resolutions of sympathy with Irish Nationalism.
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