Mr. John Redmond, at Limerick last Sunday, dealt plainly with
Mr. Churchill's proposals. Within certain clear and well- defined lace and limits he endorsed Mr. Churchill's declaration that there was no demand Ulstermen could make which would not be met and matched by their Irish fellow-countrymen and by the Liberal Party in Great Britain. When, however, Mr. Churchill alluded to a possible exclusion of a part of Ireland, on condition that both parties in England agreed to pass the Bill and make-it a real settlement, Mr. Redmond found him- self obliged to pronounce the suggestion totally impracticable and unworkable. Nationalists took their stand on Parnell's "immortal and historic words" in 1836, that Ireland "could not spare a single Son"; the two-nation theory was to them an abomination and a blasphemy.
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