The argument that we cannot yet trust Irishmen with popular local institutions is the mischievous argument by which the conservative opposition to the Melbourne government resisted, and finally crippled, the reform of municipal corporations in Ireland.
Morley critiques the argument against granting local governance to Irishmen as a harmful conservative stance.
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Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
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.
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