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We are glad to say that these counsels of what

we may call optimistic despair find no echo in the rest of the Unionist Press. The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Express, the Standard, the Morning Post, the Globe, and the Pall Mall Gazette agree in protesting against the folly of withdrawing from a fight because, 21 in the case of all fights, the struggle grows more strenuous as it proceeds. No sane person ever expected the Government to surrender at the first summons of the Opposi- tion. Yet because they do not, but, instead, hit back, we are told that they are ugly customers, or, rather, very beautiful customers, whom it would be most unwise to tackle. That is not our idea of a fight, and if it proves to be that of the Unionist rank-and-file, we shall be greatly surprised.

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