There was only one guarantee, he said, that could be of any (M159) value to Ireland, namely the assured and unalterable fact that no English leader and no party could ever dream of either proposing or carrying any scheme of home rule which had not the full support of Irish representatives.
Morley emphasizes the importance of Irish representation in any home rule proposals.
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Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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