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which would adopt sane financial
methods would restore our credit; and in any case, the object is of such
vital importance that, whatever the difficulties, it must be our policy to
complete with the utmost possible rapidity the system of land purchase
in Ireland.
It will also be our aim to help to the utmost, in the manner suggested in
different articles in this book, in the development of the resources of
Ireland. The Nationalist policy, which is imposed also on the Radical
Party, is in fact more politics and less industry. Our policy is more
industry and less politics.
The strongest objection, however, and, in my opinion, the
insurmountable obstacle to Home Rule, is the injustice of attempting to
impose it against their will upon the Unionists of Ulster. The only
intelligible ground upon which Home Rule can now be defended is the
nationality of Ireland. But Ireland is not a nation; it is two nations. It is
two nations separated from each other by lines of cleavage which cut
far deeper than those which separate Great Britain from Ireland as a
whole. Every argument which can be adduced in favour of separate
treatment for the Irish Nationalist minority as against the majority of
the United Kingdom, applies with far greater force in favour of separate
treatment for the Unionists of Ulster as against the majority of Ireland.
To the majority in Ireland Home Rule may seem to be a blessing, but to
the minority it appears as an intolerable curse. Their hostility to it is
quite as strong as that which was felt by many of the Catholics of
Ireland to Grattan's Parliament. They, too, would say, as the Catholic
Bishop of Waterford said at the time of the Union, that they "would

prefer a Union with the Beys and Mamelukes of Egypt to the iron rod
of the Mamelukes of Ireland."
The minority which holds this view is important in numbers, for it
comprises at the lowest estimate more than a fourth of the population of
Ireland. From every other point of view it is still more important, for
probably the minority pays at least half the taxes and does half the trade
of Ireland. The influence and also the power of the minority is
enormously increased by the way in which its numbers are
concentrated in Belfast and the surrounding counties.
The men who compose this minority ask no special privilege. They
demand only--and they will not demand in vain--that they should not
be deprived against their will of the protection of British law and of the
rights of British citizenship.

CONTENTS.
PREFACE
By the Rt. Hon. A. Bonar Law, M.P.
INTRODUCTION
By the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Carson, K.C., M.P.
HISTORICAL
I. A NOTE ON HOME RULE
By the Rt. Hon. A.J. Balfour, M.P.
II. HISTORICAL RETROSPECT
By J.R. Fisher
CRITICAL

III. THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION
By George Cave, K.C., M.P.
IV. HOME RULE FINANCE
By the Rt. Hon. J. Austen Chamberlain, M.P.
V. HOME RULE AND THE COLONIAL ANALOGY
By L.S. Amery, M.P.
VI. THE CONTROL OF JUDICIARY AND POLICE
By the Rt. Hon. J.H. Campbell, K.C., M.P.
VII. THE ULSTER QUESTION
By the Marquis of Londonderry, K.G.
VIII. THE POSITION OF ULSTER
By the Rt. Hon. Thomas Sinclair.
IX. THE SOUTHERN MINORITIES
By Richard Bagwell, M.A.
X. HOME RULE AND NAVAL DEFENCE
By Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, M.P.
XI. THE MILITARY DISADVANTAGES OF HOME RULE
By the Earl Percy.
XII. THE RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY UNDER HOME RULE
(i.) The Church View

By the Rt. Rev. C.F. D'Arcy, Bishop of Down.
(ii.) The Nonconformist View
By Rev. Samuel Prenter, M.A., D.D. (Dublin).
CONSTRUCTIVE
XIII. UNIONIST POLICY IN RELATION TO RURAL
DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND
By the Rt. Hon. Gerald Balfour.
XIV. THE COMPLETION OF LAND PURCHASE
By the Rt. Hon. George Wyndham, M.P.
XV. POSSIBLE IRISH FINANCIAL REFORMS UNDER THE
UNION
By Arthur Warren Samuels, K.C.
XVI. THE ECONOMICS OF SEPARATISM
By L.S. Amery, M.P.
XVII. PRIVATE BILL LEGISLATION
By the Rt. Hon. Walter Long, M.P.
XVIII. IRISH POOR LAW REFORM
By John E. Healy, Editor of the "Irish Times."
XIX. IRISH EDUCATION UNDER THE UNION
By Godfrey Locker Lampson, M.P.
XX. THE PROBLEM OF TRANSIT AND TRANSPORT IN

IRELAND
By an Irish Railway Director.

INTRODUCTION
BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR EDWARD CARSON, M.P.
The object of the various essays collected in this book is to set out the
case against Home Rule for Ireland, and to re-state Unionist policy in
the light of the recent changes in that country. The authors are not,
however, to be regarded as forming anything in the nature of a
corporate body, and no collective responsibility is to be ascribed to
them. Each writer is responsible for the views set out in his own article,
and for those alone. At the same time,