Lord Loreburn, in the House of Lords on Tuesday, moved
a resolution condemning the Sinn Fein outrages in Ireland, and declaring that the remedy lay not in reprisals, but in the grant of Home Rule, with fiscal autonomy, reserving the Navy and Army and foreign policy to the Imperial Government. Lord Lomb= described this as "Dominion Home Rule," and suggested that it would restore peace, though Sinn Fein repudiates it. The Archbishop of Canterbury declared that the Government must stop the unauthorized reprisals. He would not object to reprisals on a great scale that might be needed for the ultimate good of society. Lord Salisbury said that the Government alone could properly order reprisals. Lord Curzon, in reply, said that the Government had no sympathy with unprovoked reprisals, but the forces of the Crown were entitled to defend themselves against the agents of a "criminal and ferocious conspiracy." The Irish rebels had conspired with the Germans during the war. It was idle for Lord Loreburn to talk of conciliating the moderate men, when the immoderate men controlled the Irish agitation.
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