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...light of impartial judgment, Irish conscription is pre-eminently fair. Depleted English and Irish battalions have been recruited almost entirely through the British draft. It is time that Ireland should, do her share. This war is her war in as great a degree as it is England's. Irish leaders supported the original declaration of hostilities and have since maintained the belief that Ireland is directly and irrevocably concerned. The volunteer system has not brought the desired results. Fair play now demands conscription...
...promised an immediate introduction of home rule. Expediency, it is asserted, demands some compensation for the Irish sacrifice. There are considerations, however, which tend to deny the efficacy of such a step. To establish home rule means to alienate the sympathies of Ulster and to augment internal dissension within Ireland itself. The British have maintained their reputation as opportunists, but they have sacrificed principle without attaining the hoped-for result...
...Irish have borne the brunt of much misrule and the question of Ireland is, no doubt, a black page in English history. For the present, nevertheless, the Irish have failed to appreciate their obligations and have conducted themselves in a manner out of harmony with the safety of the empire. In mixing home rule and conscription, England has blundered both as regards justice and expediency. Irish conscription we must have; and home rule we may have, but the two bear no direct relation to each other...
...Under such a condition of affairs internal trouble and frequent dissatisfaction with the government's policies have only been natural. The labor question has at all times been grave. The conduct of the war has no doubt occasioned numerous scandals and no little inefficiency. Home Rule and Conscription in Ireland are at present the heated problems of the day. To condemn Lloyd George's ministry because of misinforming the English public in some detail regarding the military situation is folly. In view of what has passed, the necessity of now maintaining stable government must overshadow any minor disfavor...
...stubborn resistance of the Ulstermen and the excesses of the Sinn Fein revolutionists. Unembittered by these reverses, Redmond from the first counselled complete Irish co-operation in the British Empire's fight against Prussian militarism, and maintained to the end his uncompromising hostility toward the pro-German factions in Ireland...