Question: Resolved, That the pending bill for Irish Home Rule is for the benefit of the British Empire.

Brief for the Affirmative.S. M. BALLOU and E. C. JEWELL.

Best general references; Gladstone's speech in London Times, Apr. 7, 1893; Home Rule Bill in Boston Herald, Feb. 19, 1893; Gladstone in Nineteenth Cent. XXI, 256-261 (Feb. 1887.); ibid. XXII, 311-324 (Sept. 1881.); Morley in Fort. Rev N. S. XIX. 423-8 (Apr. 1881); ibid. XX. 255-263 (July 1881); Gladstone in N. A. Rev. Vol. 155, 431-439 (Oct. 1892); Bryce, Handbook of Home Rule.

I. Home Rule is just: - (a) Historically, - (1) The Act of Union forced by bribery and intimidation: Gladstone, N. A. Rev. XLII. 431 (Oct. 1892) - (2) Union abused by Eng. misgovernment: Cairnes, Pol. Essays, 197; Beesly in Fort. Rev. Vol 170 p. 229 (Feb. 1881); Morley in Fort. Rev. Vol. 170 p. 423, (Apr. 1881) - (b) Theoretically. - (1) Local self government a right: Bompas in Fort. Rev. Vol. 52. p. 9-19 (July 1892).

II. Home Rule is expedient: - (a) It is not secession: King, the Irish Question, Chap. 30: - (1) It is analagous to the self governing colonies: Gladstone in N. A. Rev. XLII. 392-401 (Oct. 1892): - (2) It is analagous to the Federal system; - (b) a majority of Parliament favors it; McCarthy in N. A. Rev. XLIII, 293-306 (Sept. 1892); - (c). Ireland desires it; - (d) Imperial Parliament retains sufficient powers; Harrison in Fort. Rev. XXXIV. 319-323 (Sept. 1892) - (2) Discontend Ireland a military weakness; Morley in Fort. Rev. XXVI, 165 (July 1881); - (b) Irish minority in Parliament obstructive: - (g) Irish question unsettles Eng. affairs.

III. The present bill is practical; - (a) Supremacy of imperial Parliament retained; - (b) Ireland receives real autonomy in local affairs; Home Rule bill in Bost. Herald, Feb. 19, 1893 - (c) Irish minority in Parliament could not affect Eng. questions; Gladstone in London Times, Apr. 7, 1893.

Brief for the Negative.E. P. JOSE and C. H. LINCOLN.

Best general references: Baden Powell, Truth about Home Rule; Dicey, England's case against Home Rule; Balfour's Speech in London Times, April 22, 1893; Home Rule Bubble in Blackwood's CLIII (March '93); The Bill of Wrongs in Nat. Rev. XXI. 124 (March '93); Nineteenth Cent. XXXIII. 545-559 (April '93); Chamberlain in London Times, April 11, 1893.

I. Home Rule would be bad for Ireland. - (a) The Irish have badly ruled Ireland in the past. - (1) Parliaments of 1688 and 1782; Quar. Rev, Vol. 165, p. 500. - (2) Recent Irish dissention: Fraser Vol. 85, p. 106 - (b) It would promote dissentions, - (1) The Protestants comprise one third of the population and wish union - (2) Many of the rest wish complete separation: Fortn LIII, 345-8 - (c) The condition of Ireland is improving: Contemp. XLIX, 169, 761.

II. Home Rule would be had for Great Britain. - (a) A federation requires good feeling to be successful: Dicey, Introduction. - (b) The Irish Parliament cannot be trusted to settle the land question, for England is bound in honor to the landlords: Fortn. XLV, 861; Sat. Rev., CLIV 291; Blackwood vol. 139, p. 684. - (c) It would set a bad example.

III. The proposed bill is unsatisfactory (a) It would be unjust to England and Scotland - (1) Financially: Nint. Cent. XXXIII, 548, (2) It gives greater local rights to Ireland then Great Britain on joys: Churchill in Lond. Times, Apr. 12 '93 (b) It pleases no party. - (1) The English Rev. of Rev. VII, 236; Balfour in London Times Apr. 22 '93 - (2) The Protestant Irish, Nat. Rev. XXI 314 (Apr. '93). - (3) The Cath. Irish: Redmond in Lond. Times, Apr. 12, '93; Rev. of Rev., VII, 239. (March 15, '93.) - (c) It weakens the Empire. - (1) By dividing its powers: Chamberlain in Lond. Times. Apr. 11. '93. - (2) A step toward disintegration: Dicey, 89, - (3) By making the ministry unstable: Balfour in Lond Times, Apr. 22. '93; Contem. LXI, 314. Rev. of Rev., VII. 235-40 (Mch. 15, '93); Edit. in Lond. Times, Apr. 7, '93; Fort. LIII. 584-591.