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 sincere or not we will make them—and we have got the power to do it—we will make them toe the line.

"I come to you to-day, not to ask assistance to defeat coercion; it is dead. I come to you to-day, not to ask assistance to get material reform; we have got nearly everything that we can hope to get from an alien and ignorant and unsympathetic party. I have come here to-day to America to ask you to give us your aid in a supreme and, I believe, a final effort to dethrone once and for all the English Government of our country."—at Buffalo, 27th September, 1910 ("Official Report of National Convention," Freeman, 12th October, 1910).

"If this election is won, the battle for Home Rule is won; and a victory at this election is a decisive and final victory for Home Rule. The victory will he a victory for Home Rule, for, as Mr. Asquith said in his Albert Hall speech, the policy of the Liberal Party is full self-government for Ireland, and that position has been reaffirmed in the most emphatic terms. Said Mr. Lloyd George in his speech at Mile End, 'We stand absolutely by the position we have taken up in the matter of self-government for Ireland always as a party—the position taken up by the Prime Minister in the Albert Hall; and the declaration of Mr. Asquith on April 14th on that point not only stands, but has been reaffirmed in the most emphatic language.'

"Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons on November 18th, used these words—' That declaration,, the language of which was carefully chosen, represents now, as it did then, the intention of His Majesty's Government.'"—