Mr Morley, of course assuming that all the complaints made
of injustice in the decisions of Magistrates and Judges in Ireland are in substance just complaints, asserted that with a Legislature and Administration on the spot, the temper of the Magistrates and Judges would be absolutely revolutionised. We have little doubt of it, and that is just what we fear. There is now a good deal of resolute resistance to the tyrannical temper of the Parnellite majority. There would then be no such resistance. When Mr. Morley can show us that favourites of the Irish people, like Mr. William O'Brien and the two Mr. Redmonds, for example, really wish to do justice as between the majority and the minority, he may be able to persuade us that the revolution in the administration of justice that he HQ ardently yearns for, will not be a triumph of popular injustice,
But Mr. Morley, with one view of the facts in his mind, cannot easily convince those who have an opposite view of the facts in their minds. He concluded by an eloquent repudiation of the Federal principle, and a vindication of the supremacy of the Parliament at Westminster, which, as we have shown in another column, is absolutely and hopelessly inconsistent with the policy he desires, and the reasons for which he desires it.
