In recording the political speeches of the week we must
not pass over the challenge to Socialism uttered at Paisley on Monday by the Master of Elibank, one of the Government Whips. He did not see, he said, " how the Socialists could help the agricultural labourers by splitting forces and allowing Tories to get in. Did Socialists imagine that they were help- ing the people of Scotland when they sent their emissaries down to Stirling to speak against a man like Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman? The people of Scotland would not stand it. Let the Socialists put as many candidates as they liked in the field, the Liberals would beat them, and beat them with the Radical forces of progress." These are excel- lent sentiments, but there seems to be a difference of opinion among the officers of the Liberal army. Some of them, we are afraid, believe that the Radical forces of progress and the Socialists are still marching in parallel columns to attack a common enemy.
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