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.
Among the co
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