THE HOME RULE BILL.
As was expected, the Home Rule Bill was rejected by an overwhelming majority in the House of Lords. This Bill was forced through the House of Commons by the majority commanded by Mr Gladstone, but if we accept the dictum of the Times, that wus a majority " owning no conviction, possessing no principle, united in the pursuit of no inspiring idea. A mob temporarily held together by the most extraordinary desire that ever swayed a mob — the desire to pass a Bill which every man knows cannot become law, and which not one in ten would desire to pass if he thought it had any chance of becoming law." Although the Home Rule Bill is " scotched " it is not killed, and at the next elections will be the burning question of the day. The only hope its opponents can have is that the Gladstonian party will be returned in a minority, and that hope has every chance of being realised, if we may judge by the direction, at present, of public opinion in the United Kingdom. Even then its memory will live, and although, perhaps, even in our time the object may not be gained, yet in the end either Ireland will be under self-government, or a much wiser system of administration of the law will have been inaugurated.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 63, 12 September 1893, Page 2
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223THE HOME RULE BILL. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 63, 12 September 1893, Page 2
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