Mr. Labouchere goes about preaching-doctrines which will be of the
greatest use to the Unionist cause. He identified himself at Gloucester on Tuesday with the "Plan of Cam- paign" and with boycotting in its most malignant form. "He could not conceive a more contemptible wretch than a man who took-a farm from which_ the legitimate holder had been ejected beeause he could not pay an exorbitant rent. There were men in prison now for telling their fellow-countrymen to treat such rascals as lepers. Emphatically they ought to be treated as lepers." With a hundred such evangelists as Mr. Labouchere, the labours of such hearty Liberal Unionists as Mr. T. W. Russell would become almost superfluous. Where Mr. Labouchere preaches one day, the Liberal Unionists -will find the field made ready for harvest, the next. They will catch Mr. Labouehere's hearers on the rebound.
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