It is stated that two thousand delegates of the many
Liberal Associations of this country, will meet at Leeds, next Wednes- day, to consider the House of Lords question, and will be advised to agree on a resolution that its veto should be abolished, and very likely will agree on it by a very large majority. But how will that enable the party to do what they propose to do? Everybody knows that it would be just as easy to get two thousand delegates of Unionist Associations to meet, say, at Liverpool, and thank the House of Lords for representing the nation's dislike to Irish Home-rule. And while the nation can thus display no less a force, perhaps a much greater force, of resistance to the Leeds Conference, than it can rally in its favour, where is the chance of overriding a vital factor in our Constitution? The Radicals seem to have persuaded themselves that big threats come with as much force from a very bare majority, or even a decided minority, of the people as they exert when they come from an almost unanimous people !
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