Chapter II: The Question of Home Rule

The question of Home Rule not extinct--The reasons--Butt's
scheme of Home Rule--It is denounced and ridiculed by Mr.
Gladstone, and defeated in the House of Commons--Death of
Butt--The Home Rule movement becomes allied with a foreign
conspiracy--Davitt and Parnell--The Land League--Mr.
Gladstone's surrender to it--The movement makes no progress
in the Parliament of 1880-85--The General Election of
1885--Mr. Gladstone suddenly adopts the policy of Home
Rule--The probable reasons--The Home Rule Bill of 1886--Its
nature and tendencies--Decisive objections to the
measure--It is rejected at the General Election of 1886,
having been previously rejected in the House of Commons--
Policy and conduct of Mr. Gladstone--The Home Rule movement
makes some progress in England, and why--The Home Rule Bill
of 1893--It is much worse than that of 1886--The reasons--It
is rejected by the House of Lords--Home Rule under different
forms--The Union must be maintained--Proposal that Parliament
should occasionally sit in Dublin--The over-representation
of Ireland should be redressed 39-83