On Wednesday Mr. Chamberlain continued his campaign by making a
speech at Greenock. The most telling pas- sage was that in which he appealed to the workman to hit back at the foreigner. " I do not know—there may be something wrong in my constitution—but I never like being hit without striking back again. But there are some people who like to be trampled upon. I admire them, but I will not follow their example. I am an advocate of peace, no man more so. I wish to live quietly, comfortably, and in harmony with all my fellow-creatures, but I am not in favour of peace at any price. I am a Free-trader. I want to have free exchange with all the nations of the world; but if they will not exchange with me, then I am not a Free-trader at any price. And again I say it may be a defect in my con- stitution, but it seems to me that the men who do not care for the Empire, the men who will sooner suffer injustice than go to war, the men who would surrender rather than take up arms
in their own defence, they are the men in favour of doing in trade exactly what they are willing to do in political relations. I do not care to what party they belong, but I am not one of that party ; and accordingly when I find that is the effect of this policy on the part of other countries I look about for a means of meeting it."
