"
[45] For a description of this machinery see Chap. IX., "Home Rule in
the World," p. 121.
[46] April 9th, 1886.
HOME RULE DIFFICULTIES
ULSTER
"Violent measures have been threatened. I think the best
compliment I can pay to those who have threatened us is to take
no notice whatever of the threats, but to treat them as
momentary ebullitions, which will pass away with the fears from
which they spring, and at the same time to adopt on our part
every reasonable measure for disarming those fears."
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"Sir, I cannot allow it to be said that a Protestant minority
in Ulster or elsewhere is to rule the question for Ireland. I
am aware of no constitutional doctrine on which such a
conclusion could be adopted or justified. But I think that the
Protestant minority should have its wishes considered to the
utmost practicable extent in any form which they may assume."
GLADSTONE (1893).
CHAPTER V.
HOME RULE DIFFICULTIES
"Sooner or later," said a wise man to me the other day, "always sooner
or later in the Home Rule question you bump up against religion.
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