We have not space here to restate the arguments against
Home-rule, though, in our opinion, the experience of the last twenty years has immensely increased their strength and validity. We must, however, protest against the entirely misleading analogy from the Colonies used by Lord Loreburn. There could not be a better example of the falsity of the argument which proves too much. Apparently he holds that Home-rule can be applied as a panacea to every discontented portion of a country. Would he apply it in the case of the North-Eastern section of Ireland if that section asked for Home-rule for itself, as it most certainly would the moment Irish Home-rule was granted P The Nationalists have, of course, always declared that they do not recognise the claim of Belfast and the surrounding districts to separate ,them- selves from the rest of Ireland.
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