As we have noted elsewhere, the Resolution does not even
profess to say that the action of the Lords violates democratic principles or the rights of the people. A pedant might perhaps say that the phrase " a usurpation of the rights of the Commons" means, not the House of Commons, but every one who is not a Peer ; but it is obvious from the context that what is intended by the Resolution is the House of Commons, and so it will certainly be understood by the public at large. The issue, then, is joined, and as early as possible in the new year—it is said that the Dissolution may actually take place on December 28th—we shall know the answer of the nation to the question : "Have the Peers committed the unforgivable sin by insisting that the electors shall be consulted in regard to a Finance Bill so novel in its principles, and containing so much matter which is of a non-financial character, as the Budget of 1909 P "
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