Even as it is, landlords are, in Mr.Sexton's eyes, criminals,[130] and he therefore cannot be trusted to act with fairness towards Irish landowners.

Mr.Redmond holds that imprisoned dynamiters and other criminals should be released, whether guilty or not, and it is therefore reasonable not to put Mr.Redmond in a position where he can insist upon an amnesty for dynamiters and conspirators.

Nor is it at all clear that as regards amnesty any Anti-Parnellite dare dissent from the doctrine of Mr.Redmond.It is odious, it will be said, to dwell on faults or crimes which, were it possible, every man would wish forgotten.

But when we are asked to trust politicians who are untrustworthy, it is a duty to say why we must refuse to them every kind of confidence.

Of the penalty for such plain speaking I am well aware.
It will be said that to attack the Irish leaders is to slander the Irish people.