I want to know what title the resident magistrate had to make such a condition as that. (Opposition cheers.) Most dangerous is this introduction of the new discretion of resident magistrates,--a discretion of imposing new restrictions upon prisoners.
In a speech on Home Rule, Gladstone criticizes the dangerous expansion of discretion given to resident magistrates to impose new restrictions on prisoners.
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I do not expect, any more than I desire, these foreign complications, but still it is not wise wholly to shut them out.
In fact, these men have been punished for doing in Ireland that which would be perfectly lawful in England, and which, I believe, is perfectly lawful even in Ireland, under any fair interpretation of the act.
I repeat my lamentations that some of the most difficult and the nicest parts of the law are removed by the operation of the Coercion Act of last year from judges and juries to men whom I termed of an inferior stamp.
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