Mr. W. S. Caine, in addressing his constituents at Barrow-
in-Furness, has taken up what we conceive to be the utterly impracticable position assumed by so many English Radicals. He declares that the Home-rule Bill must be amended so as,— (1), to retain the Irish Members in the English Parliament; (2), to get rid of the guarantee of an aristocratic element in the Irish Legislature ; (3), to keep all the genera1 taxation of Ireland under Imperial control ; (4), to give the Imperial Parliament a veto on acts of the Irish Legislature ; and (5), he demands that the Land-purchase scheme shall be dropped. In other words, Mr. W. S. Caine insists that the scheme should be so altered as to be utterly contemptible to the Parnellites,—so as to remove every chance of settling the agrarian question with equity,— and finally, so as to retain at its maximum the power of the Parnellites to obstruct Imperial legislation. In other words, if you retain all the evil of the scheme and omit all the good, the Radicals will be happy to accept it.
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