We find it difficult to speak with patience of Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman's preposterous picture of the Bill as a black conspiracy hatched by professors and parsons, or his ridiculous attempt to inflame class prejudice by alluding to the fact that Peers do not send their sons to the "common schools." Imagine the Radical attacks on the meanness of our hereditary legislators if they did thus endeavour to secure free education for their sons How many sons of Liberal Members, we may fairly retort, are there in the common schools? The assailants of the Education Bill must indeed be " gravelled " for arguments when they are reduced, in the person of the leader of the Opposition, to such suicidal non- sense. As for the plural voting of the "library class," we may note that Sir Henry had not a word to say of the far greater " iniquity" by which a Galway or Newry voter has five times the polling power of the elector in many English constituencies.
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