K AGRARIAN REFORM OF 1905. 



the concession of a kind of self-government for 



<lc for a while agai 



the designation 'Home Rule,' because not so 

 lone ago he was declaring that he would die in 

 thr h for the union of the three V 



but hr will soon be reconciled to it. It will not 

 be very long till all thr former landlords whose 

 i liirf interests lie in Ireland have become en- 

 thu nationalists.' It is indeed possible that 



the a. peace now beginning a peace 



which, however, will still for a time be broken 

 >nal combats may be rendered fruit- 

 less by sectarian dissensions. In any case it 

 ill be said that the most serious obstacle 

 to the granting of Home Rule to Ireland 1 

 been removed. 



When the Irish people, who have during the 

 past thirty years seen so many of their wishes 

 luliilled, have seen also the reali/ation of this 

 last dream, then they will gradually come to 



1 It is very significant that Lord Dunraven, the stroogest 

 personality among the participants in the Land Conference, 

 should last autumn have developed a scheme of Devolut 



. also not without interest th.it he has at the same time 

 taken a strong interest in the agitation for Fiscal Reform instt 

 .imberlain. Irish politicians are always insiinc- 

 >tectionists. If at the present time certain prole* 

 proposals came to the benefit of the peasantry, and they let 

 themselves be won over by Chamberlain ism, that would mean 

 ling of 80 votes for Protection. However, as long 

 as the Conservatives refuse Home Rule to Ireland, and 

 rals are for granting it, Irish sentiment will incline to 

 Liher.il .md Krcv-Traile side. 



