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.

J. M. Hallowell and H. W. Hervey.

I. Irish grievances arise not from political causes, but on account of a false and vicious land system.- Nation, Sept. 1, 15, 1887; Dicey, England's Case against Ireland; Kay's Free Trade in Land.

II. The same grievances exist in England.- Dicey, England's Case against Ireland; Edinburgh Review, Jan., 1887.

III. A political change will not cure a social evil. Home rule would only aggravate the troubles, whereas what is needed is an entire change of the land system throughout all Great Britain.

III. Home rule would have an evil effect upon Ireland.

IV. Home rule would have an evil effect upon Great Britain.- National Rev., v., 238, vii., 272, 281; Spectator, lviii., 1092; Fortnightly Rev., xlv., 861; Living Age, clxvi., 147.