15 JULY 1911, Page 3

Taken as a whole, the debate was unimportant, except for

a very significant remark made by Lord Lansdowne. "We do not," said he, "regard the Bill as anything in the nature of a final settlement, but only as a provisional measure in- tended to cover an interval which we are assured is to be a short one." Such language hardly seems to us consistent with the idea of "resistance to the death," for the "resist- ance to the death" policy means, not the acceptance of a temporary measure to be repealed or amended when the Unionists return to power, but its absolute destruction.