Mr. Redmond went on to declare that if the Government
attempted to enforce conscription it would be resisted in every village in Ireland. "Its attempted enforcement would be a scandal which would ring round the whole civilized world." To the scandal of Ireland allowing other people to fight the battles of the Empire, while young Ireland gathers in the high wages which any man can
• now earn in Ireland, Mr. Redmond made no reference. Mr. Redmond added the ridiculous statement that the demand for conscription was made not on military grounds, but by those who wanted to betray Ireland and make bad blood between the two countries. Of course the very reverse is the ease. The bad blood will come from the feeling of Englishmen and Scotsmen that they were left in the lurch to fight battles which no one can say are specially English or Scottish interests, but which concern the whole Empire.
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