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day, September 8th, 1893. 419 to 41; majority against the Bill of 378. [3] See Appendix A for this Bill. [4] "The Story of the Home Rule Session." (1893.) Written by Harold Spender, sketched by F. Carruthers Gould (now Sir Francis C. Gould). London: _The Westminster Gazette_ and Fisher Unwin. [5] This famous phrase was first coined by Grattan, but was so often said by Gladstone that it was, in 1886, regarded as his. [6] See a very interesting account of the present Irish Executive in "Home Rule Problems" (P.S. King and Son. London. 1s.) in a chapter (iv.) entitled "The Present System of Government, in Ireland," by G.F.H. Berkeley. There are 67 Boards, of which only 26 are under direct control of the Irish Secretary. No Parliamentary statute applies to Ireland, of course, unless that country is expressly included by name. [7] See, for a popular account of this Synod, Green's "History of the English People," Vol. I., p. 55. [8] The central Civil Service is predominantly Protestant, and in municipalities like Belfast the Catholics hold a very small proportion of the salaried posts. [9] Census for 1911. Preliminary Report. Page 6. [10] Census Summary. Preliminary Report. Page 6. [11] See "The Statesman's Year Book," 1911, pp. 877-8. THE HOME RULE CASE THE CASE THAT HAS CHANGED--AND IS NOW STRONGER i.--THE COUNCILS AND ii.--THE LAND. "They saved the country because they lived in it, as the others abandoned it because they lived out of it." GRATTAN. CHAPTER II. THE HOME RULE CASE Those who, like myself, visited Ireland last summer as delegates of the Eighty Club included some who had not thoroughly explored that country since the early nineties. They were all agreed that a great change had taken place in the internal condition of Ireland. They noticed a great increase of self-confidence, of prosperity, of hope. Many who entered upon that tour with doubts as to the power of the Irish people to take up the burden of self-government came back convinced that her increase in material prosperity would form a firm and secure basis on which to build the new fabric. What does this new prosperity amount to? The new Census figures leave us in no doubt as to its existence. For the first time there is a real check in that deplorable wastage of population that has
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