A Significant Resolution

New Zealand Tablet, 13 April 1911, Page 659

A Significant Resolution

The full significance of the meeting at which Lord Dunraven advanced so far along the road to Home Rule has hardly been made clear (writes the London correspondent of the Freeman’s Journal). It was at a gathering of a city society called the Delphian Coterie, which is mainly composed of Conservatives, who meet once a month to discuss some political, social, or economic problem of the day. The Delphian Coterie includes Mr. Balfour, Lord. Curzon, Lord Milner as honorary members, though they were not present on February 20. On that occasion Mr. John.E. Yerbury, of the Society of Statisticians, read a paper in favor of Home Rule, and proposed the following resolution: ‘ That it is wise and expedient to give to Ireland the most generous measure of Home Rule consistent with the maintenance of the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament.’ Mr. Yerbury, in support of his resolution, • advocated Home Rule on historical, constitutional, economic and Imperial grounds, giving a very effective summary of the misgovernment from which Ireland has suffered and showing up vividly the gross extravagance of her administration. He maintained that Ireland was not a poor country, inhabited by won’t-works, but a rich country badly managed. It was in winding up the debate that Lord Dunraven spoke, and then, as has been stated, the Homo Rule resolution was carried unanimously. This is the first time that a. Homo Rule resolution has been adopted by a meeting of this kind in the city of London, composed as it was of 95 per cent, of Conservatives. But this is only symptomatic of the change of feeling that has overspread the whole country on the subject of Home Rule.