not asking for a Repeal of the Union. We are not
asking for the restoration of a co-ordinate Parliament such
as Ireland had before the Union. We are only asking that
there should be given to Ireland a subordinate Parliament. We
therefore admit the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. That
means that after this subordinate Parliament is created in
Ireland, if the Parliament is foolish enough, rash enough, as
it never will be, but if it were foolish enough and criminal
enough to use the powers given to it for injustice or
oppression of any class or creed, the Imperial Parliament
would have the power to stretch forth the arm of its authority
and to say 'you shall not do that.'"

Of course it may be argued that they had changed their minds; that
in former times they worked for separation, but now realised that
a subordinate Parliament was all that Ireland required. But
unfortunately for this theory, they have themselves repudiated it;
when Mr. Redmond was accused of speaking with two voices, one in
America and one in Great Britain, he passionately replied:--

"I indignantly deny that accusation. I have never in my life
said one word on a platform in America one whit stronger than
I had said in my place on the floor of the House of Commons.
I have never in America or anywhere else, advocated the
separation of Ireland from Great Britain."

How far this is true, the quotations from his speeches which have
already been given, will have shown. But the Government have kept up
the farce; Mr. Winston Churchill said during the debate on the Bill of
1912:--

"The Home Rule movement has never been a separatist movement.
In the whole course of its career it has been a moderating,
modifying movement, designed to secure the recognition of
Irish claims within the circuit of the British Empire."

But not even the immediate prospect of Home Rule can be said to have
made those parts of Ireland where the League is supreme a happy place
of residence to any but advanced Nationalists. The following report of
a case in the Magistrate's Court at Ennis in November 1912 will speak
for the condition of the County Clare:--

Patrick Arkins was charged with knocking down walls on the
farm of Mrs. Fitzpatrick in order to compel her to give up the
farm. Inspector Davis gave evidence that from January 1910 to
that date there were 104 serious outrages in