Though the Government are doing exactly what we felt sure
they would do, that is, refuse the slightest concession, we feel no inclination whatever to alter the view which we have expressed all along, and which we repeat in our first leading article to-day. The badness of the Parliament Bill and the sinister circumstance that the Government will not modify it by a hair's-breadth cannot and does not alter the main facts of the situation. These are (1) that if the Lords' amendments are insisted on the Government have the power to create a sufficient number of peers to pass the Bill, and will use that power ; and (2) that when those powers have been used, and the Bill passed, the general situation will be much worse for the Unionist Party and for the country than if the Bill had been passed without the revolutionary act of creating the peers. It is the business of the Unionist Party to do all in their power to prevent revolutionary acts, and when in some form or other they are inevitable to confine them to as small an area as possible.
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