the English-speaking peoples. This has been
prevented more than by any other one thing by this unhappy feud that
has raged for centuries, and the settlement of which, I most earnestly
hope, and believe, will be a powerful contribution to the peace of the
world, based on international justice and goodwill. I earnestly feel
that the measure is as much in the interests of Great Britain as of
Ireland."

Did we judge of Ireland only by many of the public utterances made
in her name, then, indeed might we despair of a people who having
suffered so much and so valiantly resisted for so many centuries
were now to be won to their oppressor's side, by, perhaps, the most
barefaced act of bribery ever attempted by a Government against a
people.

"Injured nations cannot so entirely forgive their enemies without
losing something of their virility, and it grates upon me to hear
leader after leader of the Parliamentary Party declaring without shame
that Home Rule when it is won for Ireland is to be used for a new
weapon of offence in England's hands against the freedom of the world
elsewhere."

Did the Irish Parliamentary Party indeed represent Ireland in this,
Mr. Wilfred Blunt's noble protest in his recent work, _The Land War
in Ireland_, would stand for the contemptuous impeachment, not of a
political party but of a nation.

Mr. Redmond in his latest speech shows how truly Mr. Blunt has
depicted his party's aim; but to the credit of Ireland it is to be
recorded that Mr. Redmond had to choose not Ireland, but England for
its delivery. Speaking at St. Patrick's Day dinner in London on March
17th, 1913, Mr. Redmond, to a non-Irish audience, thus hailed the
future part his country is to play under the restoration of what he
describes as a "National Parliament."

"We will, under Home Rule, devote our attention to education, reform
of the Poor Law, and questions of that kind which are purely domestic,
which are, if you like, hum-drum Irish questions, and the only way
in which we will attempt to interfere in any Imperial question will
be by our representatives on the floor of the Imperial Parliament in
Westminster doing everything in our power to increase the strength and
the glory of what will then be our empire at long last; and by sending
in support of the empire the strong arms and brave hearts of Irish
soldiers and Irish sailors, to maintain the traditions of Irish valour
in every part of the world. That is our ambition."

W