In his speech at Truro on Monday, Mr. Courtney pointed
out the remarkable position taken by Mr. John Morley in main- taining frankly that what they wanted was to make the Irish- man a " new creature," and that the only way of doing so is to leave him alone, with a Parliament and Executive of his own to do as he will. In other words, we are to give an Irish Parliament and Executive full power to do any injustice they choose, in the desperate hope that they will put off the old man and put on the new man, and regenerate themselves the moment they shall be given full permission to work their will,— evil or good,—on their land. Mr. Courtney said justly that such a course would be a craven abandonment of duty by the Englishmen to whom their fathers bad transmitted a great burden, but one which we have no right to fling down.
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