Question: Should home rule be granted to Ireland?

Brief for the Affirmative.

Best single reference: W. E. Gladstone, Speech on Home Rule (pamphlet).

E. A. Harriman and F. W. Knowles.

I. Home rule for Ireland defined.- The Gladstone Home Rule Bill; Nineteenth Century, Feb., 1887; Fortnightly Review, xvii., 20; American Catholic Review, viii., 712, x., 714.

II. Home rule for Ireland is a necessity.- Contemporary Review, March and August, 1887; Gentleman's Magazine, May, 1887; North American Review, May, 1887.

(a) Something must be done for Ireland, (b) coercion is a failure; (c) agrarian reform impossible without home rule.

III. The right of Ireland to home rule.- Nineteenth Century, Feb., 1887; Boston Daily Advertiser, Feb. 28, March 4, Sept. 7, 1887.

(a) Fitness of the people; (b) right of all nations to self-government.

IV. Beneflt to England of Irish home rule.- Nineteenth Century, March 1886, Feb., 1887.

(a) Legislative; (b) economic; (c) refusal dangerous.

V. Benefit of home rule to Ireland.- Nineteenth Century, March, 1886, Feb., 1887; Boston Daily Advertiser, Nov. 5, 1886.

(a) Economic; (b) legislative.

Brief for the Negative.

Best singe reference: Dicey, England's Case against Ireland.