Mr. Asquith addressed the Manchester Reform Club on Thursday, and
his speech will not make Mr. Gladstone's course easier. Mr. Asquith holds that to give Ireland Home- rule without putting the police entirely under the local Irish control, and without giving the Irish Legislature full power to deal with the Land question as it pleases, would be " absurd." Only by giving the " largest, amplest, and most generous powers to the Irish Legislature consistent with the maintenance of Imperial unity," "could they put a final end to the question which had so long agitated and disturbed the country." To give the "largest, amplest, and most generous powers " to Irish Home-rulers—such as they have recently shown themselves—would be rather the beginning than the end of troubles, and of frightful troubles. Mr. Asquith's speech should be well placarded by the Unionists in. Hartlepool.
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