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.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Gladstone criticizes the Coercion Act for transferring legal authority from judges and juries to less qualified individuals.
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There must be, and will be, cases of harsh and unreasonable persecution under the name of boycotting.
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.
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