It was the Land Question that in all the speeches of 1886
provided the strongest argument. It was the absence of local
government, and the presumed incapacity for local government, that
filled so many Unionist speeches. It was the quarrel over University
Education that provided the best evidence of incompatibility of temper
between Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant.
I shall show that in all these respects the problem has completely and
radically changed since 1893.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] By a majority of 34 on the third reading--301 to 267--September
1st, 1893.
[2] Friday, 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.
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