For if the development of textile, leather, shipbuilding, and other manufactures lessens the British import under these heads into Ireland, it will increase that of coal, iron, steel, and machinery.

And Ireland, without trenching on the needs of her home market, is capable of much more intensive exploitation as a food-exporting country.

Economically the two nations are joined in relations that ought to be relations of mutual profit, were they not eternally poisoned by political oppression.

With this virus removed, the natural balance of the facts of nature will spontaneously establish itself between the two countries.
The true desire of all the loud trumpeters of "loyalty" is, as it appears to me, of a very different order.

What they really ask is that Ireland should begin her career of autonomy with a formal act of self-humiliation.