Even in England a resolution of the House of Commons may be enough to turn a law into a dead letter.

The Imperial Cabinet at this moment could go very near making the Vaccination Acts of no effect, and by declining to have troops sent to Hull could, as I have already pointed out, give victory to the Trades Unionists.

Nor is it necessary that the Cabinet should decline sending forces to Hull for the support of the law.

An intimation that persons accused of intimidation would either not be prosecuted at all, or if prosecuted and convicted, would be pardoned, would be sufficient of itself to make the strike successful.

In no country could the Executive do more to render laws ineffectual than in Ireland.