That is the passage with which we are in the
fullest possible
personal sympathy. 'Incidentally, it says exactly what we feel about the Morning Post. It proves that on Lord Salisbury have descended those qualities of wisdom, moderation and
equity of mind and character which belonged in so conspicuous a degree to his father. Another truly sound passage in a thoroughly sound speech was that in which Lord Salisbury pointed out how very much better it would have been—granted that we-had to break the legislative union with Ireland—that it should have been broken by people who, like Mr. Asquith's Government, believed in their policy ; and not by those who adopted it as a matter of pure expediency. " We should have escaped all, or a great mass, of the bloodshed of those who were fighting for us. We should have escaped all the excuses, all the subterfuges, all the lies which have disgraced the Irish policy, and we should not have been worse off even under a Radical Government so far as Ireland is concerned."
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