Excerpt from An Unionist Policy for Ireland

Increasing reluctance to approve projects which, no matter what may be the design or the desires Of their authors, must of necessity tend to separation, to the demand of absolute independence, and probably to renewed and infinitely more serious con¿ict. But for the startling impression produced by them at the time of their full disclosure, it might have been possible to carry Mr. Gladstone's plans with a rush that chance has disappeared the verdict pronounced at the general election remains unshaken and if the same plans, or others nearly resembling them, were reproduced, unless all ordinary political indications are fallacious, the judgment of the constituencies would now be more emphatic than it was in 1886. If Mr. Gladstone has new and different schemes to Offer, the country will doubtless consider them but it shows no desire to press him to break through the reserve which, for reasons avowedly strategical, he continues to impose upon himself. Something of this attitude of the public mind is doubtless due to the weariness caused by the iteration of the Irish question, to the impatience of prolonged postpone ment of legislation urgently required by England and Scotland, to the general demand for an English session, and to the boldness with which the Ministry, advising with and supported by its Liberal Unionist allies, has brought forward measures Of reform broader, more liberal, and more courageous than have been Offered even by Liberal. Administrations.

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