From Glasgow Mr. Morley travelled to the Montrose Burghs, speaking
on Tuesday at Montrose, and on Wednes- day at Brechin. The former speech had little independent interest. But in his speech at Brechin he showed that
his mind was fall of the social confusions and attempts to clear the confusions up, of which even the politics of the day provide us with so many evidences. He remarked that the Presidential election in the United States had not terminated, and could not have terminated, those vague dis- contents of which Mr. Bryan's wild doctrines had been the outcome, and that we are destined to feel, and indeed are already feeling, the vibration of the same vague discontents. The problem of what to do with the unemployed is as harassing in Europe as it is in the United States, and the Commis- sion which has reported on the subject has found no solution of the problem. He evidently did not think that it would ever be solved by merely addressing ourselves to the relief of physical wants. He believed that it would be desirable- for local authorities to be quite free to make experiments on any plan which might seem to be hopeful, and that it would be all the better to make them on a small scale, and that larger populations should follow suit only in case there seemed to be any satisfactory result
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