For the rest, Mr. Goschen remarked on Mr. Gladstone's renewed
expressions of tolerance for the " Plan of Campaign," and indignantly denied that any combination of the kind could go unpunished in England. "I tell you what world have been a parallel. If there had been a fearful strike in Lancashire, if parties had been inflamed on both sides, and
if it were possible that a breach of the peace might be caused at any moment, and if then some great statesman had come down and said to the strikers : Don't be content with striking, but seize the property of your employers and hold it against the police and all comers ; take what is not your own and stick to it, to carry out your object,' then you would have had a parallel" between the English and the Irish illegality. Illustrating the illegal resistance to evictions in Ireland, he said that a Nationalist Member had received a letter from a girl who had been engaged in, defending a house against the police. She said to him: "I hope, Sir, you will get me my due. The other girl got 10s. and I got nothing. The other girl only poured hot water on the head of a policemen, b►nt I broke the head of another with a shovel." Mr. Goschen gave the strongest testimony to the improvement in the state of Ire- land, not only as regards the taking of evicted farms, but the new friendliness springing up between the landlords and the tenants.
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