from landlord to tenant, facilities for education at popular
universities, the laborers' acts and many others. They are a
practical party taking what they could get, and because they could
show ostensible results they have had a greater following in
Ireland than any other party. This is natural because the average
man in all countries is a realist. But this reliance on material
results to secure support meant that they must always show results,
or the minds of their countrymen veered to those ultimates and
fundamentals which await settlement here as they do in all
civilizations. As in the race with Atalanta the golden apples
had to be thrown in order to win the race. The intellect of
Ireland is now fixed on fundamentals, and the compromise this middle
party is able to offer does not make provision for the ideals of
either of the extremists, and indeed meets little favor anywhere
in a country excited by recent events in world history, where
revolutionary changes are expected and a settlement far more in
accord with fundamental principles.

6. It is possible that many of the rank and file of these parties
will not at first agree with the portraits painted of their opponents,
and that is because the special pleaders of the press, who in Ireland
are, as a rule, allowed little freedom to state private convictions,
have come to regard themselves as barristers paid to conduct a case,
and have acquired the habit of isolating particular events, the
hasty speech or violent action of individuals in localities, and
of exhibiting these as indicating the whole character of the party
attacked. They misrepresent Irishmen to each other. The Ulster
advocates of the Union, for example, are accustomed to hear from
their advisers that the favorite employment of Irish farmers in
the three southern provinces is cattle driving, if not worse. They