New Zealand is wealthy, and New Zealand pays not a single tax into the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.

Ireland is poor, and, if her taxation is lightened by Home Rule, the tribute which will be paid to England will be heavy, and far more galling than the taxes she now pays in common with the rest of the United Kingdom.

The new constitution, again, is utterly unlike a colonial constitution.

Its burdens would not be tolerated by any one of our independent colonies.

The rights it gives, no less than the obligations it imposes, are foreign to our colonial system.