Under the heading of "Liberalism Old and New," Mr. Henry
Newbolt contributes an impressive appeal to moderate Liberals in Tuesday's Times. The true line of division, according to him, is not between measures but methods, and it was laid down only a month ago at Darlington by Sir Edward Grey when he declared that " ignoble methods, attempts to set class against class, the gospel of hate, will never build up anything," and quoted the saying of a man of the people, a Liberal vet crap, that " no political Constitu- tion can enfranchise a people, no privileges can assist them, no possessions can enrich them, no rank or title can ennoble them, unless they have solid, manly character, wholesome honesty, as the granite rock upon which they are built." Mr.
Newbolt continues :—
" Vindictive and confiscatory taxation, persecution of particular classes, denunciation of individuals for the. supposed faults of their ancestors, destruction of sympathy between rich and poor—these are indeed ignoble methods which cannot build up and must destroy a people. They are the negation of the Liberalism which our predecessors followed and which Sir Edward Grey has eloquently taught."
Hence he concludes that those in whom Sir Edward Grey has inspired the "old Liberal spirit of a fraternal commonwealth in which every man should serve beside his neighbour, and none should be made to suffer for his birth, position, or beliefs," are free to follow this ideal and refuse to continue their sup- port to a Government which has failed not only to uphold it, but to restrain or repudiate " the appeal of unscrupulous emotionalism to the passions that unmake a nation."
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