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which imperil the future of Ireland.
The best hope of securing a final settlement of the Irish question in the immediate future lies in promoting open discussion on the details of the Home Rule scheme, and of drawing into that discussion all Irishmen and Englishmen who realize the profound importance of the issue. This book is offered as a small contribution to the controversy.
For help in writing it I am deeply indebted to many friends on both sides of the Irish Channel, in Ireland to officials and private persons, who have generously placed their experience at my disposal; while in England I owe particular thanks to the Committee of which I had the honour to be a member, which sat during the summer of this year under the chairmanship of Mr. Basil Williams, and which published the series of essays called "Home Rule Problems."
E.C.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The two latter works were written by Mr. Lecky in his Nationalist youth the first and greater work after he had become a Unionist. They form a connected whole, however, and are not inconsistent with one another.
[2] See "Democracy and Liberty."
[3] "Did the people of Ireland understand that the destruction of the Union, so lightly advocated by Lord Haldane, must result in the cessation of those largely eleemosynary benefits to which the progress of Ireland is due, her 'dissatisfaction' would be unmistakably directed towards her false advisers?"--Letter to the Belfast Telegraph, October 7, 1911, criticizing Lord Haldane's preface to "Home Rule Problems."

ERRATA
Since this book went to press the Treasury has issued a revised version of Return No. 220, 1911 [Revenue and Expenditure (England, Scotland, and Ireland)], cancelling the Return issued in July, and correcting an error made in it. It now appears that the "true" Excise revenue attributable to Ireland from spirits in 1910-11 (with deductions made by the Treasury from the sum actually collected in Ireland) should be ��3,575,000, instead of ��3,734,000, and that the total "true" Irish revenue in that year was, therefore, ��11,506,500, instead of ��11,665,500. In other words, Irish revenue for 1910-11 was over-estimated in the Return now cancelled by ��159,000.
The error does not affect the Author's argument as expounded in
Chapters
XII. and XIII.; but it necessitates the correction of a number of figures given by him, especially in
Chapter XII.
, the principal change being that the deficit in Irish revenue, as calculated on the mean of the two years 1909-10 and 1910-11, should actually be ��1,392,000, instead of ��1,312,500.
The full list of corrections is as follows:
Page 259, line 9, for "��1,312,500," read "��1,392,000."
Page 260, table, third column, line 6, for "��10,032,000," read "��9,952 500"; last line, for "��1,312,500," read "��1,392,000."
Page 261, table, last column, last line but one, for "��321,000," read "��162,000"; last line (total), for "��329,780,970," read "��329,621,970."
Page 262, line 7, for "��10,032,000," read "��9,952,500"; line 10, for "��1,312,500," read "��1,392,000."
Page 275. table, last column, line 2, for "��3,734,000," read "��3,575,000"; line 7, for "��10,371,000," read "��10,212,000"; line 14, for "��11,665,500," read, "��11,506,500"; in text, last line but one of page, for "��10,032,000," read "��9,952,500."
Page 276, line 5, for "��500,000," read, "��340,000"; table, last column, line 2, for "��3,316,000," read "��3,236,500"; line 3, for "��6,182,000," read "��6,102,500"; line 9, for "��8,737,500," read "��8,658,000"; last line, for "��10,032,000," read "��9,952,500."
Page 277, line 2, for "��1,672,500," read "��1,752,000"; line 7, for "��1,312,500," read "��1,392,000"; line 8, for "��10,032,000," read "��9,952,500"; line 12, for "��1,672,500," read "��1,752,000"; footnote, line 1, for "��1,793,000," read "��1,952,000."
Page 279, line 8, for "70.75," read "70.48."
Page 282, sixth line from bottom, for "��1,312,500," read "��1,392,000."
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Page 246, line 8 and footnote, and page 295, lines 21-31: A temporary measure has been passed (Surplus Revenue Act, 1910), under which the Surplus Commonwealth Revenue is returned to the States on a basis of ��1 5s. per head of the population of each State.
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Page 288, line 2, omit "like the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands." These islands have distinct local tariffs, but they cannot be said to be wholly under local control.

THE FRAMEWORK OF HOME RULE

CHAPTER I
THE COLONIZATION OF IRELAND AND AMERICA

I.
Ireland was the oldest and the nearest of the Colonies. We are apt to forget that she was ever colonized, and that for a long period, although styled a Kingdom, she was kept in a position of commercial and political dependence inferior to that of any Colony. Constitutional theory still blinds a number of people to the fact that in actual practice Ireland is still governed in many respects as a Colony, but on principles which in all other white communities of the British Empire are extinct. Like all Colonies, she has a Governor or Lord-Lieutenant of her own, an Executive of her own, and a complete system of separate Government Departments, but her people, unlike the inhabitants of a self-governing Colony, exercise no