On Tuesday, the Bishop of Manchester followed Lord Ripon in
connecting the Co-operative movement with the great question of the hour. He said that as the great object of this movement was to help capital to think for labour and labour for capital, so it should be the object of a true foreign policy to think for the true interests of the antagonists whom we are supposed to be resisting, as well as for our own. We ought now to be ready to ask our- -selves, as Russia would do, whether England was going to throw all Europe into war, for a phrase. And if we asked ourselves that question frankly, we should not be willing to answer it in the affirmative. That is a very wise remark of Dr. Fraser's, but it will hardly affect a Prime Minister who sets down all Liberalism -9.8 Cosmopolitanism, and all Cosmopolitanism as folly. Lord Beaconsfield is not for co-operative foreign politics. He is for ;national glory and Ministerial glorification.
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