Mr. Balfour, addressing a meet ing of Nonconformist Unionists in London, said that the only two practicable institutions for the self-governing Dominions of the Empire were an independent Parliament and Municipality. Bat the idea that a hybrid and dependent Parliament in Ireland could permanent seemed to be a dream of political idiots.
It_was our business to frame the Empire on the ce-operation of independent Parliaments. Sach a Parliament would fait in Ireland where the position was not analogy ous to that of Canada, Australasia be a discreditable and absurd failure like @ subordinate Parliament.
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