Notwithstanding the establishment of the Irish Parliament, or
anything contained in this Act, the supreme power and authority
of the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall remain unaffected
and undiminished over all persons, matters, and things within
his Majesty's dominions.
THE HOME RULE BILL (1912).
(THE GOVERNING CLAUSE.)
"If we conciliate Ireland, we can do nothing amiss; if we do
not we can do nothing well."
SYDNEY SMITH.
"The cry of disaffection will not, in the end, prevail against
the principle of liberty."
GRATTAN.
HOME RULE
BY
HAROLD SPENDER
WITH A PREFACE
BY THE
RT. HON. SIR EDWARD GREY, BART., M.P.,
SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
_SECOND EDITION_
_With Text of Home Rule Bill (1912)_
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
"There can be no nobler spectacle than that which we think is
now dawning upon us, the spectacle of a nation deliberately set
on the removal of injustice, deliberately determined to break
with whatever remains still existing of an evil tradition, and
determined in that way at once to pay a debt of justice and to
consult, by a bold, wise and good act, its own interests and
its own honour.
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