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they
make a fatal mistake in denying Liberals credit for understanding
questions of Home Rule better than Tories. That, again, is a matter of

proved experience. Compare the abortive Transvaal Constitution of
1905 with the reality of 1906, and measure the probable consequences
of the former by the actual results of the latter. Let them remember, too,
that every year which passes aggravates the financial difficulties 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."
* * * * *

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.
* * * * *
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