[Footnote 20: See "_Times_ Special Commission," vol. v. p. 175, and
"Home Rule. What is it?" by A.W. Samuels, K.C. (Simpkin Marshall, 1911),
p. 60.]
[Footnote 21: See No. 213 of the Liberal League publications.]
[Footnote 22: Erskine Childers, "The Framework of Home Rule" (Arnold,
1911).]
[Footnote 23: See speech of J.M. Robertson, M.P., London, January 11,
1912.]
[Footnote 24: "Home Rule Problems" (P.S. King & Son, 1911).]
[Footnote 25: Written in March, 1912.]
[Footnote 26: See Egerton, "Federations and Unions in the British
Empire" (Clarendon Press, 1911). Introduction.]
[Footnote 27: On the financial questions involved the Government have
been advised by a Committee containing financial experts; but the Report
of this Committee is withheld from publication, and it is believed that
its advice will not be followed.]
[Footnote 28: House of Commons, April 8, 1886.]
[Footnote 29: Quoted in "The True History of the American Revolution,"
by S.G. Fisher (Lippincott, 1903).]
[Footnote 30: Childers, p. 340.]
[Footnote 31: See Cambray, "Irish Affairs and the Irish Question"
(Murray, 1911), p. 146.]
[Footnote 32: Mr. Gladstone always declined to call it a "Parliament,"
but some Ministers of to-day are less scrupulous.]
[Footnote 33: Dicey, "A Leap in the Dark" (Murray, 1911), p. 71.]
[Footnote 34: See "The Church of Ireland and Home Rule," by J.H.
Bernard, D.D., Bishop of Ossory, 1911.]
[Footnote 35: House of Commons Papers, 1864, xli. 79.]
[Footnote 36: Parliamentary Papers, 2079.]
[Footnote 37: Parliamentary Papers (Cd. 2905).]
[Footnote 38: "Home Rule Problems," p. 124.]
[Footnote 39: See the Newfoundland railway case of 1898 (Parliamentary
Papers, Cd. 8867, 9137).]
[Footnote 40: "A Leap in the Dark," p. 110.]
[Footnote 41: "Home Rule Problems," p. 112.]
[Footnote 42: Mr. Redmond rejected the provisions of the 1893 Bill,
saying in the House of Commons on August 30, 1893, that "as the Bill now
stands, no man in his senses can any longer regard it as a full, final,
or satisfactory settlement of the Irish Nationalist question."]
[Footnote 43: Speech at Belfast, February 8, 1912.]
[Footnote 44: July 18, 1886, at Cockermouth.]
[Footnote 45: See "The Perils of Home Rule," by P. Kerr-Smiley (Cassell,
1911), p. 45, where Lord Morley's opinion to the same effect is quoted.]
[Footnote 46: Speech at Whitechapel (_Times_, October 11, 1911).]
[Footnote 47: Sir John Simon at Dewsbury (_Times_, February 8, 1912).]
[Footnote 48: No such charge of ambiguity applies to the forcible
letters of "Pacificus" on "Federalism and Home Rule" (Murray, 1910).]
[Footnote 49: The changes in the Australian Constitution have been in
favour of greater unity.]