Mr. John Redmond continues his begging-tour in America.
At Buffalo on Tuesday he declared that unless the House of Lords surrendered its power to reject Bills, the fight against it would instantly revive, and there would be
a General Election on that issue in January. Mr. Redmond continued :— " I am perfectly confident of the future. I believe the leaders of the Liberals are sincerely friendly to Homc-rule ; but sincere or not, we have the power and will make them toe the line. Our first business is to clear away the block,—the House of Lords. That accomplished, Home-rule is as good as accomplished."
Mr. Redmond is very frank ; but it is curious that he does not recognise that it is just because the abolition of the House of Lords means, as he says, the accomplishment of Home-rule, that the destruction of the veto of the Lords will never take place. At any rate we know now from " the highest authority" what is involved in the abolition of the veto. Mr.
Redmond would hardly have dared to speak as he did unless lie had got a pledge from the Liberal Party that if and when the veto is abolished, their first action will be to introduce a Bill dissolving the Legislative Union with Ireland.
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