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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What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
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