The murder ought not to deflect our policy. If that
policy is wise in itself—which we, of course, do not admit—it should not be altered because the murderers have succeeded in their plans. They have long been as ready to kill Sir Henry as they have been to kill their victims in Ireland. The accident of their success makes no difference. What the murder should do, and surely must do, is to make the British People see in what a fool's paradise they have been living, and on what a foundation of crime, paradox and cant they have allowed the Government to rear their card castle. What wo must do now is not to curse, nor to weep, nor to strike blindly, but to think wisely how to deal with the appalling welter of wrong and folly created by the policy of the Government. We want a true settlement in Ireland, not a bloodstained make-believe.
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