Harmony of International Relations, by a Roman Catholic Priest (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Case of Home Rule for Ireland?Difficulties in the Management of the Weightiest Affairs of the Country?No real Government in the Country? The race of the ' Shave-beggar' Chief Secretaries not extinct?Conduct of the Government in the Potato famine in Ireland, and the Cotton famine in England?The Unprecedented Absenteeism of Ireland, Home Rule the only cure, 'twill bring back the Absentees, or buy and sell their Estates ?The chief Gravamen, the Absence of the sentiment of Independence and Self-rule?The Scotch case for Home Rule is much the same as Ireland's?Its essential Difference from England in its Laws, Judicature, and Jurisprudence?The English case?Fox's Warning?Plunket and the ' Six Acts'?Danger of the Irish Vote in Matters purely English?The Imperial case?The Federal Re-construction the best Security for all. JIHE advocates of Home Rule for Ireland complain that no measure of improvement in that country, requiring an Act of Parliament, can becarried without a vast deal of trouble and expense, and a very damaging incertitude consequent upon its having to be dealt with in London by a committee of members of either House of Parliament, or rather, and most absurdly, by committees of both Houses taking up the measure, one after the other, inflicting over again the same trouble and expense and incertitude,?both these committees comprised of members who, in most cases, and for the greater part, are incompetent to deal with, or heedless and indifferent about, the matter in hand. This, they allege, is a grievance of constant, of every-day occurrence, seriously affecting the great paramount interests of the country, and seriously impeding the free action of its Municipal Councils. The Railway Boards, for instance, cannot take the least step, the municipalities cannot ...