• THE LORDS AND THE BUDGET.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Unionist Party claim that the country is with them, and that it yearns to get rid of the present House of Commons, start Tariff Reform, &c., &c. Well, then, why should the Peers make an unnecessary revolution by throwing out the Finance Bill ? They could protest very efficiently by being present in the House when the Bill is brought in, and by filing solemnly out before the division, leaving it to be carried by the Liberal Peers only. If the Unionists are right, the next Budget will be made after their own pattern, and they can take off any taxes they do not like, for with all its faults I do not think the present Budget has created any vested interests which would have to be bought off, as a Tariff Reform one must do. Surely the above course would be more conservative and patriotic than for the Lords to do such an unprecedented thing as to throw out a Money Bill, an action
• which must cause confusion in, and the loss of many millions to, the Exchequer, at the very moment when they are declaring through all their papers that the Navy is starved. You, Sir, I believe, call Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Lloyd George revolutionaries. Do you want to give them just cause to cry : "La patrie eat en danger et lea aristocrates soul la cause " P
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