The Birmingham Daily Post seems to have mistaken the intention
of the note appended by us to Sir Thomas Bazley's letter. We have dealt with the article elsewhere, but may state here that we no more desire than does the Post that the
Liberal Unionists should do anything to make the country doubt their Liberalism. The whole matter resolves itself into this question,—" How can the cause of the Union be best sup- ported ? " If the Gladatonians were to drop Home-rule, they could, of course, count at once upon the help of many Liberal Unionists ; and even if they gave it the second or third place in their programme, they might look confidently for much support on the old Liberal lines. It is, however, of no use to discuss such possibilities, for they have no reality in them. Mr. Gladstone is pledged to push on Home-rule before everything, and except for a parade of English measures in the Queen's Speech, we shall hear of no legislation next Session which has anything to do with Great Britain. No Liberal Unionist need, there- fore, worry himself as to whether he will serve the cause best by turning out the Government, or by supporting Liberal measures, for he will be asked to vote on nothing practical but Home-rule.
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