We deal with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's speech elsewhere, but may
remark here that the attitude he has assumed—even though it may have tactical advantages, which we greatly doubt—is in our opinion both illogical as well as unstatesmanlike. If he is not prepared to abolish the House of Lords, his proper course is to substitute a democratic Second Chamber, or else introduce the Referendum, as Lord Monkswell, himself a strong Liberal, urges in the Times on Friday. We note that Mr. Haldane in a speech delivered at Tranent on Tuesday contented himself with mildly saying ditto to the Premier, while Mr. Walter Long, addressing a Unionist meeting at Limavady on Monday night, remarked upon the significant omission by the Premier of all reference to the rejection of the Irish. Council Bill. Why, he asked, was it a high crime and misdemeanour, why was it an outrage upon
the privileges of the elected Members of Parliament of this country, to reject two Scottish Bills, and why was it a virtue and a merit for a Nationalist Convention sitting in Dublin to reject the Irish Council Bill ?
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