Speaking on Friday, October 6th, at Carnarvon, Mr. Morley admitted
the unwisdom of the Boers in not making a frank and generous offer in regard to the fran- chise, and he also declared that if there was real oppression we ought not to grudge the necessary sacri- fices to put an end to it, but be denied that the oppression was of a kind to justify the policy of the Government. Here is a fair issue. The Outlanders declare that there is oppres- sion. Mr. Morley denies it. Mr. Morley cannot, however, be allowed to urge that he has proved his case by saying that the Outlanders are not treated by the Boers as badly as the Armenians were treated by the Turks. Of course they are not. But surely Mr. Morley does not think that people who ask for redress of grievances cannot claim our sympathy unless they are in the position of the Armenians. A much better analogy is that of the people of Lombardy or Venetia under the Austrians. We hold, and we presume Mr. Morley will agree, that the majority of the inhabitants of North Italy deserved our active sympathy, even though they were not our own flesh and blood; and that if they had been British subjects we should have been justified in using force to obtain their emancipation. Mr. Morley ended by speaking of Canada and of the success achieved there by a wise policy. We are delighted that he has brought up the case of Canada, and we would ask him whether he thinks Canada would now show so happy an example if the people of Quebec had in- sisted on treating, and had been allowed to treat, all English emigrants as Outlanders.
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