In the House of Commons on Wednesday Mr. Redmond moved
an amendment to the Address expressing the hope that in the land-purchase proposals announced in the Speech from the Throne advantage would be taken of the "un- exampled opportunity created by the Land Conference agree- ment for putting an end to agrarian troubles " in Ireland. We have dealt with the debate at length elsewhere, and will only here say that the unanimity was astonishing. No one seemed inclined to stand on the rights of the British tax- payer, and to make fiscal considerations a ground for for bidding the banns between landlord and tenant, " cried " so pleasantly by Mr. Redmond. In view of the great interests at stake, we are in favour of making the grant required, pro- vided a workable scheme of purchase can be devised. Till, however, Mr. Wyndham's Bill is produced we cannot, of course, finally commit ourselves, and we would advise our readers to adopt that attitude. To do that does not involve any failure of sympathy with the scheme in the abstract.
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