It is understood that the Home Rule and Unionist leaders
will :luring the adjournment make an attempt to settle the Home Rule problem by agreement It is greatly to be hoped that they will succeed. If, however, they fail, it seems to us that proper course is to apply the principle of the moratorium to the Home Rule Bill. Let a short Act be passed amending the Parliament Act in such a way that the failure to pass a Bill under that Act in three successive Sessions shall not destroy the said Bill. The Home Rule Bill will thus be kept alive, and exactly in the position in which it was when war was declared. When the war is over its friends and opponents can begin where they left off. That will be fair to all sides. We should prefer a settlement on the lines of the Exclusion of Ulster " till Parliament shall order otherwise," but if that cannot be obtained then let us have the moratorium solution.
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