. Against home rule . hen it could with advantage be merged HISTORICAL RETROSPECT 77 in the later-created Department of Agriculture and Tech-nical Instruction. This department, which has been linkedup with the County or Borough Councils, by the legislation ofMr. Gerald Balfour, has done an immense amount of educa-tional and practical work in connection with agriculturein all its branches, including dairying, poultry rearing,fruit-growing, and other rural industries, not to speak oftechnical instruction in matters suited for artisans and townworkers. These remarkable achievements, the work of s
. Against home rule . hen it could with advantage be merged HISTORICAL RETROSPECT 77 in the later-created Department of Agriculture and Tech-nical Instruction. This department, which has been linkedup with the County or Borough Councils, by the legislation ofMr. Gerald Balfour, has done an immense amount of educa-tional and practical work in connection with agriculturein all its branches, including dairying, poultry rearing,fruit-growing, and other rural industries, not to speak oftechnical instruction in matters suited for artisans and townworkers. These remarkable achievements, the work of successiveUnionist Governments from 1896 to 1906, have revolution-ised the face of the country, and are bringing about a newIreland. The chief danger now lies in the intrigues of dis-credited politicians, whose object is to divert the eyes of thepeople from practical, remedial, and constructive legislation,and to keep them fixed upon what Mr. John Morley hascalled the phantom of Irish legislative independence. CRITICAL. London Stereoscopic Co %***, j&Jr/^^ Ill THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION By George Cave, , Few things are more remarkable in the Parliamentaryhistory of the Home Rule movement than the completeabsence from the counsels of the English advocates ofHome Rule of any definite and settled policy as to theform of self-government to be offered to Ireland, and theirconsequent oscillation between proposals radically differingfrom one another. Since the new departure initiatedby Davitt and Devoy in 1878,* it has been the deliberatepractice of Irish Nationalists to abstain from defining theNationalist demand and to ask in general terms for self-government, doubtless with the object of attracting thesupport of all who favour any change which could bedescribed by that very elastic term. Such a policy has itsadvantages. But confusion of thought, however favourableto popular agitation, is a disadvantage when the momentfor legislation arrives; and uncertainty as
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