While Mr. Dillon at Lou ghrea on Sunday last was
indignantly denying that the Irish Party had ever lowered their flag or changed their front, Mr. O'Brien at Westport was dealing faithfully with Mr. Redmond and Mr. O'Connor :—
" The best proof of how wrong their adversaries were was that the first hope of the country now was the repeal of the Birrell Land Act and of the Lloyd George Budget. Ireland's representa- tives had surrendered her rights on these two questions for the sake of a wild-goose chase about the abolition of the House of Lords and the promise of an Irish Parliament within one month. a prospect so wildly fraudulent that Mr. Redmond and Mr. T. P. O'Connor had no other compensation to offer to Ireland for killing land purchase and killing her claim for relief from over-taxation than a vague promise of Home-rule all round, which a day or two afterwards they ignominiously ran away from."
In this context we may note that the Daily Chronicle, which promptly accepted Mr. Redmond's repudiation of the Daily Express interview, welcomes with effusion Mr. O'Connor's repeated declarations that Home-rule should be solved on the lines of the provincial Legislatures in Canada.
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