We esamot resist quoting a passage from the admirable speech
delivered by Mr. Chaplin at Mitcham on Saturday, in which he declared that "the Unionist Party would have to consider whether the best interests of the nation would be better or worse eerved by an immense creation of Radical peers in addition to the passing of the Parliament Bill. What would his party gain by it? They were in a large minority in the House of Commons. Would they be better off if they deliberately incurred the position of bei.ng in a minority in the other House as well P From what he knew at present he franaly owned that the party would not be better off, and it would require much more cogent reasons than he had yet heard or read of to convince him of the wisdom of a course which might end in the way he referred to."
We may add that the same view has received strong support in a leading article in Monday's Daily Graphic. Throughout the crisis the Daily Graphic has shown a statesmanlike appre- ciation of the essential facts. The Birmingham Daily Post may also be added to the list of Unionist newspapers which share our view of the situation.
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