Nemesis was not long in overtaking Mr. Lloyd George for
his temerity in attacking the Irish land purchase system. Tuesday's Times contained a long letter from Mr. William O'Brien denouncing Mr. Lloyd George in round terms for his speech on Irish land purchase, and this was followed by a very plain-spoken resolution which was passed at a meeting of the All-for-Ireland members who follow Mr. William O'Brien's lead. It runs as follows :— "That the Chancellor of the Exchequer's attacks on the principle of peasant proprietorship in his speeches at the National Liberal Club and at Islington are calculated grossly to mislead the British public as to the financial aspects of Irish land pur- chase, and have created well-founded alarm in Ireland as to the character of the Bill for the completion of land purchase which the Cabinet last year pledged itself to make an essential part of the Home Rule settlement, and we can give no further support to the measures of the Cabinet of which Mr. Lloyd George is a member until the proposed Land Purchase Bill is produced and until we learn whether it is intended seriously to proceed with it.
-EUGENE CREAN, JAMES GILHOOLY, PATRICK GURNEY, MAURICE HEALY, T. M. HEALY, WILLIAM O'BRIEN, D. D. SHEEHAN, Joint WALSH."
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