Every one admits that to be a right principle when
a foreign enemy attacks us, and the attack made upon the Kingdom by the Sinn Feiners, though different in degree and in intensity, is not different in kind. The attack is being supported not merely by assassinations of the most infamous kind but by diabolical plots to spread disease among man and beast and to wreck the industries of large manufacturing centres in England. Tim first way in which the moderate man, and above all the moderate politician, can rally to the Government is by supporting the Home Rule Bill. We do not suggest that those who think the Bill is bad should suddenly pretend that they think it good, but they ought at the very least to bear in mind the fact that to throw out one of the chief measures of the Government is bound to weaken the Government. In the House of Lords the Bill ought certainly to receive a second reading. We will now summarize in their proper order the events in Ireland and the debates in Parliament.
