Sir George Trevelyan, speaking at Salford on Wednesday, taunted the
Irish Tories with voting for the Parnellit,e or more violent candidates, only in order that the Anti-Parnellite or more moderate candidate, may fail. Bat do the Irish Tories vote for the Parnellites? And are the Anti-Parnellites in principle at all less violent than the Parnellites ? So far as we can judge, there is not in principle a pin to choose between Mr. John Redmond and Mr. John Dillon. Sir George was very enthusiastic for the policy of paying Members of Parlia- ment, and actually said that the £200,000 a year that it would cost would soon be saved, and much more than saved, in the -economies produced by businesslike Members. Sir George is a -dreamer. Has any Parliament voted away sums one-half as magnificent for reasons one-half as empty of even the pretence of exigency, as the paid Members of the House of Representa- tives in the United States ? All experience goes to show that Parliaments of paid Members are far more extravagant and far more corrupt than Parliaments like our own.
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