. Against home rule . the contrary, as an ecclesiastical organisation Rome was RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY UNDER HOME RULE 221 never so compact in organisation, never so ably manned byboth regular and secular clergy, never so wealthy nor so full ofresource, never so obedient to the rule of the Vatican, as atthe present moment. Give her an Irish Parliament, and shewill be complete; she will patiently subdue all Ireland toher will. Emigration has drained the country of the strongmen of the laity, who might be able to resist her encroach-ments. Dr. Horton truly says: The Roman Churchdominates Ireland an
. Against home rule . the contrary, as an ecclesiastical organisation Rome was RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY UNDER HOME RULE 221 never so compact in organisation, never so ably manned byboth regular and secular clergy, never so wealthy nor so full ofresource, never so obedient to the rule of the Vatican, as atthe present moment. Give her an Irish Parliament, and shewill be complete; she will patiently subdue all Ireland toher will. Emigration has drained the country of the strongmen of the laity, who might be able to resist her encroach-ments. Dr. Horton truly says: The Roman Churchdominates Ireland and the Irish as completely as Islamdominates Morocco. By Ireland and the Irish Dr. Horton,of course, means Roman Catholic Ireland. Are you now goingto place a legislative weapon in her hand whereby she willbe able to dominate Protestants also ? It is bad states-manship ; bad politics ; bad religion. For Ireland it canbring nothing but ruin ; and for the Empire nothing butterrible retribution in the future. CONSTRUCTIVE. Ji/iiolt &• Fry, Ltd. (=C. /l/ . /ox-^fez^ XIII UNIONIST POLICY IN RELATION TO RURALDEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND By the Right Hon. Gerald Balfour For the last two and twenty years, at first a few and now a goodlycompany of rural reformers with whom I have been associated, and onwhose behalf I write, have been steadily working out a complete schemeof rural development, their formula being better farming, better business,better living.—Sir H. Plunkett, letter to the Times, December,ign. Ireland would prefer rags and poverty rather than surrender hernational spirit—Mr. John Redmond, speech at Buffalo, September27, 1910. It should never be forgotten that the maintenance of thelegislative Union between Ireland and Great Britain isdefended by Unionists no less in the interests of Irelandthan in that of the United Kingdom and of the the ills from which Ireland has admittedly suffered inthe past, and for which she still suffers, though in diminishedmeasure, i
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