We wonder what Mr. Redmond on the one hand, and
the Government's Radical supporters on the other, will say to these revelations. How will the Temperance Party view the exemption of Ireland from all increased taxation on intoxi- cants P Again, how will the Land-taxers like Ireland being, relieved of all extra taxation on land and from the general revaluation P Again, what will the ordinary English taxpayer think of the admission that the taxes which are good enough for him are not good enough for Ireland ? What strikes us, however, most about the whole thing is that Mr. Redmond- did not agree to what was virtually a proposal for cutting Ireland out of the Budget. It is difficult to imagine that he stood out merely on the Constitutional point, and that he would rather see the Government attempting the impossible task of putting pressure upon the Crown by means of financial chaos than free Ireland from taxation. No doubt we shall know more about the matter in the course of the next day or two.
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