30 JULY 1910, Page 2

So, if Mr. Birrell can convince us, we are to

have a team to draw the coach of State consisting of a goat, a mule, a galloway, and an elephant. Freeman, when "Home-rale all round" was first proposed, remarked that when he was young federation meant uniting that which before had been dis- united, but that it now apparently was going to mean breaking up what before had been joined together. No wonder he

prayed t he should not end his days as an inhabitant of the Canton of Wessex. Of all mad schemes, " Home-rule all round" is the maddest.