Has the administration of the law been of a character to reconcile, or has it been of a character to estrange, or has it been calculated to teach respect for the Government, or to bring the Government into increasing hatred or contempt?
From a speech on Home Rule, Gladstone questions the impact of law administration on public reconciliation and respect for government.
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Therefore the exhibition of particular instances is a very unsafe and insufficient test.
I do not expect, any more than I desire, these foreign complications, but still it is not wise wholly to shut them out.
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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