an end.  Before long the alliance ends in a deadlock.  The man of the most far-reaching view knows that every immediate action taken must be consistent with the wider view and the farther goal, if that goal is to be attained; and he finds that his ultimate principle is frequently involved in some action proposed for the moment.  When such a moment comes he must be loyal to his flag and to a principle that if not generally acknowledged is an abiding rule with him; but his allies refuse to be bound by a principle that is an unwritten law for him because the law is not written down for them.  This is the root of the trouble.  The friends, thinking to work together for some common purpose, find the unsettled issue intrudes, and a debate ensues that leads to angry words, recriminations, bad feeling and disruption.  The alliance based on half measures has not fulfilled its own purpose, but it has sown suspicion between the honest men whom it brought together; that is no good result from the practical proposal.  There is an inference:  men who are conscious of a clear complete demand should form their own plans, equally full of care and resolution, and go ahead on their own account.  But we hear a plaintive cry abroad:  “Oh, another split; that’s Irishmen all over—­can never unite,” etc.  We will not turn aside for the plaintive people; but let it be understood there can be an independent co-operation, where of use, with those honest men who will not go the whole way.  That independent co-operation can serve the full purpose of the binding alliance that has proved fatal.  Above all, let there be no charge of bad faith against the earnest man who chooses other ways than ours; it is altogether indefensible because we disagree with him to call his motives in question.  Often he is as earnest as we are; often has given longer and greater service, and only qualifies his own attitude in anxiety to meet others.  To this we cannot assent, but to charge him with bad faith is flagrantly unjust and always calamitous.  In getting rid of the deadlock we have too often fallen to furiously fighting with one another.  Let us bear this in mind, and concern ourselves more with the common enemy; but let not the hands of the men in the vanguard be tied by alien King, Constitution, or Parliament.  All the conditions grow more definite and seem, perhaps, too exacting; remember the greatness of the enterprise.  Suppose in the building of a mighty edifice the architect at any point were careless or slurred over a difficulty, trusting to luck to bring it right, how the whole building would go awry, and what a mighty collapse would follow.  Let us stick to our colours and have no fear.  When all these principles have been combined into one consistent whole, a light will flash over the land and the old spirit will be reborn; the mean will be purged of their meanness, the timid heartened with a fine courage, and the fearless will be justified:  the land will be awake, militant, and marching to victory.