The argument that we cannot yet trust Irishmen with popular local institutions is the mischievous argument by which the conservative opposition to the Melbourne government resisted, and finally crippled, the reform of municipal corporations in Ireland.
Morley critiques the argument against granting local governance to Irishmen as a harmful conservative stance.
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