William Gladstone: “There must be, and will be, cases of harsh and unreasonable persecution under the name of boycotting.”

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…

It is a sign that the law does not do its work.

It is a sign that the conditions of legality do not exist.

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.