If the Government consent to such methods because they are
'temporarily convenient, they will find that while apparently allaying one trouble they will have created a new one involving he demoralization of all our principles of government. Lord bert Cecil proposed that a standing commission consisting an English Judge, a General, and a Member of the House hould be dispatched to Ireland to investigate. Mr. Asquith spoke with animation, and professed much resentment at the charge that Independent Liberals were indifferent to the murders committed by Sinn Fein. But on the whole the Opposition failed to produce much real evidence to support their charges. More than ever do we want the truth. How difficult it is to get it ! Mr. Boner Law, who wound up the debate, quoted with damaging effect Mr. Dillon's condemnation of Mr. Asquith's own method of suppressing the rebellion of 1916.
