But anybody can see how directly, how palpably, how injuriously, an arrangement of this kind tends to weaken, and I think I may say even to deaden, the sense both of trust and responsibility in the non-official members of these councils.
Morley critiques the detrimental effects of an official majority on the trust and responsibility of non-official council members.
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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.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
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.
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