William Thomas Stead

“ If this can be done in London, where the people are undisciplined by wirepullers, and distrustful of electioneerers, what security will the Irish minority have of fair play in a Dublin Parliament, managed as it would be by a caucus that is as homogeneous as a patent screw, and which keeps step like a Macedonian phalanx? ”

“ The refusal of the majority to treat the minority with some regard to the elementary principles of justice and fair play is the most potent argument against Home Rule for Ireland that has reinforced the failing ranks of the Unionists for many a long day."—Pall Mall Gazette, February 6th, 1889. ”

“ He has taught all men that when Parliament creates a subordinate assembly to carry on the work of local selfgovernment, it is in accordance with Irish ideas of fair play to deny to the minority the right to be represented in accordance with its numbers—a right which is recognized as a matter of course in every Committee of the Imperial Parliament. The London County Council is nearer to a Home Rule Parliament than any other body that exists in this country. It has to govern a population as large as that of Ireland, and infinitely more wealthy. ”