14 MAY 1910, Page 2

Liberal politicians put the matter in private, though of course

not in public, as follows : "We cannot carry on the Government if we make enemies of the Irish. They believe that unless the powers of the Lords are abolished at once, they will lose their opportunity of obtaining the only thing they care for,—Home-rule, the thing in exchange for which they have lent us their support. If they allow us to postpone the Veto Bill till next February, they will lay them- selves open in Ireland to the taunt: 'You have passed the Budget which you hated and which is a terrible evil to Ireland, and have got nothing in exchange.' How, then, in it possible for the Liberal Party to agree to a truce ? However reluctantly, they must force the pace, and insist on the Con- elitutional crisis being precipitated.'