Mr. John Morley, in his speech at Foresters' Hall, Clerken-
well, on Wednesday, began with an attack on Lord Salisbury
for his Suakin policy, for his East African policy, and for his indiscretion in calling the defeated Holborn candidate at the 1886 election " a black man," which Mr. John Morley compared with• the comparison of Irishmen to Hottentots, and vehe- mently condemned. Then he attacked the Tory Members for leaving the House during Parnellite speeches and returning to it again to cheer Mr. Balfour ; but considering how difficult it is for honest Conservatives to listen to Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien without loss of temper, we should say that their strategy is wise, and conceived in the true interests of peace. Then Mr. Morley went on to sketch out a local policy for London, which should include free schools, the appropriation of City Company endowments, the taxation of ground-rents and of real estate passing to new owners, the abolition of leasehold property, and the municipal control of the police. Privilege would surrender, said Mr.-Morley, whenever the Liberals adopt as their motto Shakespeare's saying in As You Like It,—" I earn that I eat ; I get that I wear ; owe no man hate ; envy no man's happiness ; glad of other men's good." A very wise motto, no doubt, but hardly one for which actual democracies have as yet shown their reverence. Does Mr. Morley hold, for instance, that the Irish democracy regard it even as a distant ideal ?-
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