Mr. Morley says :—" When you have gone on for
month after month, and Session after Session, aye, and Parliament after Parliament, making these lavish, profuse, and wasteful sacrifices of public time and public interests, you do not make Ireland any happier; you do not govern Ireland any better for it ; you do not convert one single Irish Nationalist con- stituency; you do not convert one single Irish Nationalist Member ; you give no fresh openings for legitimate national ambitions; you do nothing. The whole is, as I have said, water spilled upon the ground." Mr. Morley could hardly make a statement more precisely the reverse of the fact. Ireland no happier than before I What do the Swinford Board of Guardians say ? What do the criminal statistics say P What does Irish commerce say P We maintain that the Ireland of 1892 is as much happier and better governed than the Ireland of 1886, as a tranquil and prosperous country always is than a country full of sedition and social conspiracy. What Mr. Gladstone proposes would bring back civil war in Ireland. What Mr; Balfour has done has healed civil strife ; and as for converting Nationalist constituencies, that doubtless is coming too, though it will be slow work. But there will certainly be more Irish Unionists in the next Parliament than there are in this.
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