The right hon. Gentleman must know well enough— for no lesson stands out more clearly upon the face of political history—that the possession of an organised and admitted mouthpiece of public opinion, or 1585 of any form of opinion, adds enormously to the value and weight and strength of that opinion; and if it should so turn out that in any great Crisis of Our National History the Minority of the citizens of the United Kingdom who live in Ireland should not agree with the majority of those citizens who live in Great Britain, then you put it in the power of that minority to thwart the Imperial policy of this country, perhaps at a most critical moment of its history, and, by doing so, increase ten-thousand-fold the dangers of this most dangerous measure.