P._

INTRODUCTION

_By the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Carson, K.C., M.P._

HISTORICAL

I. A NOTE ON HOME RULE

_By the Rt. Hon. A.J. Balfour, M.P._

II. HISTORICAL RETROSPECT

_By J.R. Fisher_

CRITICAL

III. THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION

_By George Cave, K.C., M.P._

IV. HOME RULE FINANCE

_By the Rt. Hon. J. Austen Chamberlain, M.P._

V. HOME RULE AND THE COLONIAL ANALOGY

_By L.S. Amery, M.P._

VI. THE CONTROL OF JUDICIARY AND POLICE

_By the Rt. Hon. J.H. Campbell, K.C., M.P._

VII. THE ULSTER QUESTION

_By the Marquis of Londonderry, K.G._

VIII. THE POSITION OF ULSTER

_By the Rt. Hon. Thomas Sinclair._

IX. THE SOUTHERN MINORITIES

_By Richard Bagwell, M.A._

X. HOME RULE AND NAVAL DEFENCE

_By Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, M.P._

XI. THE MILITARY DISADVANTAGES OF HOME RULE

_By the Earl Percy._

XII. THE RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY UNDER HOME RULE

(i.) The Church View

_By the Rt. Rev. C.F. D'Arcy, Bishop of Down._

(ii.) The Nonconformist View

_By Rev. Samuel Prenter, M.A., D.D. (Dublin)._

CONSTRUCTIVE

XIII. UNIONIST POLICY IN RELATION TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND

_By the Rt. Hon. Gerald Balfour._

XIV. THE COMPLETION OF LAND PURCHASE

_By the Rt. Hon. George Wyndham, M.P._

XV. POSSIBLE IRISH FINANCIAL REFORMS UNDER THE UNION

_By Arthur Warren Samuels, K.C._

XVI. THE ECONOMICS OF SEPARATISM

_By L.S. Amery, M.P._

XVII. PRIVATE BILL LEGISLATION

_By the Rt. Hon. Walter Long, M.P._

XVIII. IRISH POOR LAW REFORM

_By John E. Healy, Editor of the "Irish Times."_

XIX. IRISH EDUCATION UNDER THE UNION

_By Godfrey Locker Lampson, M.P._

XX. THE PROBLEM OF TRANSIT AND TRANSPORT IN IRELAND

_By an Irish Railway Director._

INTRODUCTION

BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR EDWARD CARSON, M.P.

The object of the various essays collected in this book is to set out
the case against Home Rule for Ireland, and to re-state Unionist policy
in the light of the recent changes in that country. The authors are not,
however, to be regarded as forming anything in the nature of a corporate
body, and no collective responsibility is to be ascribed to them. Each
writer is responsible for the views set out in his own article, and for
those alone. At the same time, they are all leaders of Unionist thought
and opinion, and their views in the main represent the policy which the
Unionist Government, when returned to power, will have to carry into
effect.

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