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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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
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